Recipes, Restaurant Reviews, and Travel
I'm fascinated with the idea of being able to make any food at home. For example, in a post-apocalyptic world that still has electricity, but where bacon is illegal, would I be able to make it myself from scratch? Now I know that the answer is probably, "yes!" Before discovering that I could make bacon,... Continue Reading →
Traditional oven roasted whole turkey is the fail safe for most American homes when it comes to Thanksgiving, but a dry brined smoked whole turkey is a great change of pace. The reason that oven roasting is so popular is that it's mostly a safe as well as relatively easy way to cook a turkey.... Continue Reading →
Sturbridge, MA seems a little out of the way for a lot of people to drum up a reason to go there other than to visit Sturbridge Village, a "living museum" of New England in the 1830's. As it turns out there is another reason to head out to Sturbridge (or stay there if you're from... 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 →
I was kind of on an okra kick this summer for some reason. It's definitely an overlooked vegetable and that probably has something to do with the fact that when cooked or eaten, it has a very viscous quality that some people don't enjoy. It also has a kind of hairy outer skin, which is... Continue Reading →
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