Cowboy BBQ Sauces --
Sweet & Smokey Meat Moppin� Sauce
Smokey Jalape�o Meat Moppin� Sauce

Cowboy BBQ Corn Salsa

Cowboy BBQ Relishes --
Sweet & Spicy Jalape�o Relish
Cranberry-Orange Jalape�o Relish.

Cowboy BBQ Dry Rub Seasoning --
Pork Wranglers Rub
Salty Bronc Seasoning
Smokey Salty Bronc Seasoning
Seafood Seasoning

 
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The Bidegain family has deep, deep roots in the agricultural area around Sutter Buttes, the remarkable geologic formation in California�s Central Valley.

Julie Bidegain proudly declares herself to be a farmer�s daughter. �I grew up 5 miles from where I live now. My dad grew just about everything, from row crops to fruit trees. My husband John is Spanish Basque. His father came to California when he was 16, and John grew up on the ranch where we live now.�

When Julie and John got married, they moved onto the Bidegain family ranch. �My mother-in-law taught me how to cook. Cooking was always a family affair. Even today, when my daughters come to visit they want to can together and reminisce. They�ll say, �Do you remember when dad taught me how to drive a stick shift?� Our son Chad was involved from the beginning in Cowboy BBQ. As long as I had ESPN on, he would help me can all day long.�

Bidegain Farm primarily raises field crops, such as alfalfa for horse feed. John manages the farming, and Julie handles the sale of the hay. �Hay work makes for long days from March to November. Since the work day ends when there�s no more daylight or no more work to do, it�s hard to predict, so we have dinner at noon.� The farmers who come to pick up their hay know Julie is a great cook, and they�ve figured out when to arrive to get invited to dinner.

Julie and John both love to cook. There are a lot of Basque in the area. Everyone has their own chorizo recipe, and they have a chorizo contest every year. John and Chad have won many times. �They are very opinionated about food,� Julie laughs.

The Bidegain family was often enlisted to cook for functions at their kids� Catholic school. To tackle barbecuing for 500 people, the couple devised a carousel shaped barbecue unit that used indirect heat. It worked so well, they built and sold the units to other people. �Those barbecue buyers would ask, �Do you have a barbecue sauce?� and I would say I was working on it!� Julie says.

�Then a day at the stove with a glass of wine, and I had come up with a bourbon barbecue sauce. When John and Chad came in for dinner, they tried it and gave me their honest feedback. Since then, that original sauce has won 3 awards at the Fiery Food Show.�

In 2002 Julie started selling her barbecue sauce in local gourmet stores. From the beginning the demand has been strong, and every store that she visited both bought the sauce and reordered it.

Her expansion into relishes came about because someone brought her some marinated jalape�o peppers from Texas. Julie had always made bread and butter pickles, and she combined the two to make her Sweet & Spicy Jalape�o Relish.

�No matter what, family has always come first for us. Our three children have always been hard workers. Now that they�re grown and have established themselves, John and I are slowly cutting back on the farming part of our life and focusing more on the products in the Cowboy BBQ line. We love bringing our family�s traditions to other families.�


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