Josh Barhaug, exec chef of Fired Up, on Bisquick, eating dog and lazy-ass cooks

Lori Midson August 29, 2012 8:59AM

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Josh Barhaug Fired Up 1135 Bannock Street 303-825-1995 www.gtfiredup.com

This is part one of my chef interview with Josh Barhaug, who mans the line -- and pizza oven -- at Fired Up. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow.

The first recipe that Josh Barhaug ever attempted came out of a Bisquick box. He was ten or eleven and hungry for a hot dog. "My mom worked full-time, so I did a lot of my own cooking, and for some reason, I wanted a hot dog, but we didn't have any buns," he remembers, "so I grabbed the Bisquick box, and there on the back was a recipe for a hot-dog-bun-biscuit-like thing." He says he followed the recipe precisely and the results weren't bad -- at least not for a first-time effort.

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