It’s that time of year again, got the pepper sprouts planted and the BBQ fired up and I came across a great manly little cookbook featuring heat! First of all I was impressed when the pictures of peppers showed jalapenos the proper color: RED! Whether you are a true pepperhead or budding fan of hot [...]
It’s still cold outside here in the high desert, so crock pottery is still my go-to dinner method. A real man has a good crock pottery book on hand so he can throw a bunch of random looking stuff together and have it turn into a hot meal that makes everyone glad to come home. [...]
So I went overboard with the peppers this year. I have already pulled in enough jalapenos for 50+ jars of Cowboy Candy. The peppers keep coming. I used to just food-processor chop up what I didn’t eat by the end of the season and freeze it for use the following year. I would need 3 [...]
I thought I would try to make a screaming hot white sauce this year so I got some of those white carrots & about 12 white habanero plants which look to have about 100 little peppers per plant. They are starting to ripen white and they are about as hot as an orange hab with [...]
There’s a little Thai place up the street and they make this great pineapple coconut shrimp curry. It took 5 tries but I finally got it duplicated using a variety of recipes. The recipe defies the manly cooking technique of dumping everything into a crock pot for 6 hours but it turns out well anyway. [...]
So if you have one of those old ladies in your neighborhood that brings everyone zucchini every year about this time, you can stop tossing it in the garbage. Using this simple batter (which can be used for lots of fried things) you can make those zukes into great little snacks. With this recipe you [...]
So I was doing a little “let see what comes up when I search for my website” last week and came across this gem: Boom, a cook like a man cookbook. I ordered it from Amazon for 3 bucks and it showed up today. Verdict: Not bad! It’s spiral bound which means it will actually [...]
The crock pot is probably the the most important and under-appreciated cooking implement for the modern man. You can cook pretty good sized meals in them, slow cooking really works the flavors together and you can use it in any sized kitchen. You can make anything from meats to deserts in them and may be [...]
I have a bazillion little green tomatoes that won’t get ripe and some straggler red tomatoes so I wanted to find something to do with them all and found some great green and red tomato soups out there. I modified their basic idea to utilize what I had lingering in my garden so here goes: [...]
My garden’s overflowing with jalapenos and serranos this year and I’ve stuffed them every way I can and was running out of Ideas on what to do with them all. My sister-in-law said candy them. It took me a minute to wrap my mind around it but a little google-fu and I found plenty of [...]