The grills were heated this Father’s Day when grill master Craig Powell and Orrett “ZJ Bambino” Hart participated in the Hamilton’s Smokehouse Backyard-friendly Grill-off. The dads focused on bringing flavours alive with carefully crafted dishes featuring Hamilton’s Smokehouse sausages. Hart set ablaze the grill with his own “Bim-style” BimAlfredoMato Hamilton’s Smokehouse jerk sausage pasta, bimschabarbs and garlic bimbread, while Powell showed off his skills with a Dirty South Chilli with Hamilton’s Smoked Sausages on top of a bed of white rice. Thursday Food was backyard.

Craig Powell’s Dirty South Chilli with Hamilton’s Smoked Sausages

Ingredients:

1lb ground beef

1 (16oz) can tomato sauce

1 (16oz) can diced tomatoes

1 (8oz) can tomato paste

1 (16oz) can red kidney beans

1 (16oz) can black beans

2 large finely diced onions

2 finely diced celery stems

1 large finely diced sweet pepper

4 cloves garlic

1 tbsp cumin

1 tsp cinnamon

2-3 tbsp chilli powder

Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

• Brown mince and set aside.

• Add onions, garlic, sweet pepper and celery to

sauce pan and sauté until well cooked.

• Add mince to sauté and stir together.

• Add cumin, cinnamon and chilli powder and

cook on med for 20 minutes.

• Add black bean and red kidney beans, as well as

diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and paste. Allow

to simmer for 45 minutes on low heat (stirring

occasionally).

• Serve over white rice with cheese on top.

ZJ Bambino’s BimAlfredoMato Jerk Sausage Pasta

Ingredients:

1 pack Hamilton’s Jerk Sausages

1 bottle Alfredo sauce

1 tbsp tomato paste

1 tomato

3 cloves of garlic

2 stalks escallion

½ tsp Scotch bonnet

1 lb fettuccine pasta

Method:

• Dice or chop onion, garlic, escallion, tomato, and

Scotch bonnet (if desired)

• Bring pot of water to a boil and add fettuccine

pasta, cook for 7 minutes and drain.

• Grill two Hamilton’s Jerk Sausages until brown.

• In saucepan heat oil and add seasoning, then sauté.

• Add Alfredo Sauce and two tablespoons of tomato

paste.

• Mix and simmer for a few minutes.

• Drain pasta and add to sauce mixture.

• Slice sausages to desired thickness and add to

pasta mixture.

• Take pot off grill so it no bun up. BIM!