{"id":32450,"date":"2011-07-04T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=32450"},"modified":"2011-07-04T07:06:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:06:53","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-4th-of-july-bbq-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-4th-of-july-bbq-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 4th of July BBQ Recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

One of the best things about the 4th of July is the food one consumes as a means of celebration, and normally my Independence Day spread looks like the above. I would be eating that or any of the following recipes were I not on a plane flying back from a wedding in Kenosha and munching on a can of Pringles as we speak.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

So I’m going to pretend my mouth is chewing something other than dried potato wafers as I tell you what would be on the grill at Willis Wonderland today were I home instead of packed in next to a snoring pork of a passenger on American somewhere over Nebraska. First there’s my favorite recipe of all, Bacon Wrapped Hamburger Hot Dog Turtles. Thank you, k2dtw<\/a>, for submitting this beauty to The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch<\/a>!\u00a0 Just jam three weenies through a hamburger, whack the appropriate weenie limbs for feet, shave the tail, wrap the torso with bacon and throw the reptile on the grill for perfect BBQ sealife.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

Although not as pretty of a design as the carnivore turtle, the Original Bacon Explosion packs more pound-for-pound bacon punch. There’s a documented-better-than-a-crime-scene recipe for this charred-looks-like-something-else too\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Even better, the Original Bacon Explosion comes with its own Bacon Explosion Pig-Porter!!<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I would love, of course, if I was the one who turned you on to the Bacon Explosion but its fame is well-established:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

For a BBQ treat slightly more obscure, how about an Ultimate Meat Lover’s BBQ Pizza<\/a>?<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And for dessert, how bout a flag cake<\/a>? I’d go with donut holes for the white part.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Actually, I’d rather serve an ice cream cone Uncle Sam.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Any cake with color correct food coloring is also fine…<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

…as well as marshmallow studded kabobs:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

For optimum eating pleasure, serve all of the above on appropriate BBQ dinnerware. Don’t even ask me how many pieces of this pattern I have.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Happy 4th, happy BBQ and happy listening should you be lucky enough to own this:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I shall be chewing along pretending I’m not on a plane sitting next to a man whose hairy legs are protruding from his khaki shorts making it impossible for me to enjoy my (BBQ sauce-less) Pringles.<\/p>\n

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One of the best things about the 4th of July is the food one consumes as a means of celebration, and normally my Independence Day spread looks like the above. I would be eating that or any of the following recipes were I not on a plane flying back from a wedding in Kenosha and … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,165,1,223,87,193,1441],"tags":[2770,61,2768,2767,2769,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-32450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-food","category-forgot-to-categorize","category-holidays","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-recipes","tag-4th-of-july-desserts","tag-allee-willis","tag-bacon-explosion","tag-bacon-wrapped-hamburger-hot-dog-turtles","tag-bbq-pizza","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}