Recipes, Restaurant Reviews, and Travel
My recipe for fall-off-the-bone beef ribs has been so successful on this blog that I thought I'd go ahead and take a crack at making baby back ribs using the same oven technique. The benefits to using an oven are that you can make these ribs any time of the year and the oven regulates... Continue Reading →
This year some friends and I had an early Thanksgiving in Connecticut because my friends weren't able to make it home this year. Our hostess called it, "Friendsgiving," in an appropriate attempt at distinguishing the event from its usual late-month predecessor. While trying to come up with what dish to bring, my friend, Flex (of... Continue Reading →
I've smoked a pork butt twice (there's really no un-awkward way to say that) and both times it was especially difficult to get it to that "fall-off-the-bone" state. Smoking takes hours and I don't always have that kind of time on my hands, so I wanted to get all of that pork butt goodness, but... Continue Reading →
When I went to New Orleans for my friend's wedding, he introduced me to a new food that I had never had before on the morning of his wedding. The groomsmen (and one groomswoman) gathered at my friend's house and had breakfast together, which one of the groomsman prepared for us. That breakfast consisted of... Continue Reading →
I've watched a lot of Hell's Kitchen on TV. That means I've watched a lot of Chef Gordon Ramsay yelling and cussing out many wannabe chefs due to their culinary failures. It also means that I've seen Beef Wellington served and prepared an absurd number of times in one setting. Aside from the fact that... Continue Reading →
I've watched a lot of Hell's Kitchen on TV. That means I've watched a lot of Chef Gordon Ramsay yelling and cussing out many wannabe chefs due to their culinary failures. It also means that I've seen Beef Wellington served and prepared an absurd number of times in one setting. Aside from the fact that... Continue Reading →
Traditionally, stuffing (or "dressing" depending on where you're from) went inside of poultry and cooked along with the bird. I'm not sure when stuffing left the bird and ended up as its own dish, but I'm so glad it did (besides, the USDA recommends against stuffing a turkey for food safety reasons!). Ever since watching... Continue Reading →
One of my friends described the feeling of coming back from New Orleans as "NOLA withdrawal." That makes sense because while in New Orleans for a friend's wedding we tasted many delicious foods ranging from po' boys to turtle soup to smoked bbq to boudin (a ridiculously amazing cajun sausage). At Mother's Restaurant in New... Continue Reading →
While visiting a friend out in Connecticut, he and his family rewarded my mini-road trip with a full day of smoking a pork shoulder. We used a dry rub that I came up with a couple of years ago and a combination of techniques discerned from my own experiences and from reading what others had... Continue Reading →
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