Recipes, Restaurant Reviews, and Travel
Welcome to the 2016 Man Fuel and KRAVE Jerky Giveaway! As part of KRAVE Jerky's new campaign, "KRAVE Better," I have the opportunity to give one of my readers a special gift box of various KRAVE Jerky flavors (enter the giveaway below)! KRAVE's new campaign centers around achieving goals, health, and wellness. According to KRAVE,... Continue Reading →
It's taken me almost a year to post this recipe since I first made it for a friend's party. Nonetheless, that doesn't mean that I wasn't incredibly eager to post it. I was just waiting for the right time of year and the day before Thanksgiving seemed appropriate! The recipe uses sirloin steak tips as... Continue Reading →
It's the summer (or the winter!) and you don't have a grill or a smoker. What do you do? Sit there and lament your grill-less state? No! You buy some ribs, turn on that oven, and make some fall off the bone beef ribs! The funny thing about "fall-off-the-bone ribs" is that according to rib... Continue Reading →
No big holiday gathering or pot luck dinner with my family is complete without delicious grape leaves. These amazing little packages of green leaves, beef, and rice take a while to make, but disappear like a flash of lightning in a room full of hungry guests with only a few streaks of cucumber yogurt sauce... Continue Reading →
After my first attempt at meatballs yielded a very dense product, I decided to go back to the drawing board. I read that using white bread and milk can really help make meatballs tender, so I incorporated those ingredients into the recipe. I also used a slightly fattier ground beef mix (85/15) and pureed the... Continue Reading →
Getting the right texture for meatballs is harder than you would imagine. This was my first attempt at making meatballs and they didn't come out like I wanted, but they actually tasted pretty good. The "problem" was that these meatballs were basically all meat and weren't as tender as most meatballs I've had. If you... Continue Reading →
Without a grill, cast iron pan, or simply a kitchen that can handle smoke from searing, it's really tough for lay people to make great steaks. Whenever I lived in apartments, I found it harder to cook meat the way I wanted due to a fear of the smoke alarm going off triggering firetrucks and... Continue Reading →
Home Is A Kitchen 