Texans love to stuff jalapeños. The classic version, of course, is the jalapeño popper, in which the pepper is filled with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon—it’s so common you can get poppers premade and ready to grill at many supermarkets. Hutchins Barbeque in McKinney changed the stuffed-jalapeño game more than a decade ago with the Texas Twinkie. Co-owner Dustin Blackwell came up with an ingenious use for leftover smoked brisket by placing it inside a jalapeño with cream cheese and brushing the crisp bacon exterior with barbecue sauce. Then there’s the Texas Torpedo, where the pepper is swathed in sausage instead of bacon. A yeehaw Scotch egg, if you will.Inspired by Hutchins, I turned to another Texas barbecue staple for my jalapeño poppers: spicy…The post We Have Found a New Way to Stuff a Jalapeño appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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