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 [...]
I saw these nifty little slide-out cabinet racks on clearance at the hardware store about 1 year ago and they have been gathering dust ever since. I finally got one installed and I don’t know why I waited so long. The side cabinets under my cook-top aren’t wide enough for my dutch ovens or big [...]
Pro tip: Don’t plant a whole pack of radish seeds all at once in your garden. Space them out about 1/4 a pack 2 weeks apart per 1/4th otherwise you get a bazillion damned radishes at the same time. Not knowing what to do with them all I have been annoying my whole family and [...]
OK I Lied. There’s no wings in here, I use chicken tenderloins in any recipe for wings. I like to use chicken tenderloins in any recipe calling for wings because mainly: there’s no bones. This means you get way more meat return for your effort and they are still small little pieces of chicken that [...]
An anonymous do-gooder from reddit sent me this great book. Anyone that knows me knows I frequent the local food trucks for grub. I have oft-lamented the dearth of suitable food trucks here, after being spoiled and surrounded by them in Portland. This book has a great insight to the food truck culture. It has [...]
As promised (or as wife says: threatened) I did copycat recipe based on Michael Isabella’s pepperoni sauce from the season finale of Top Chef. However I’m going to use Criminelli’s Calabrese salami for mine! I Used Calabrese salami as it is a bit spicier than other but you can use milder salami as well. This [...]
The first BBQ of the summer is always my favorite. This year we had one at work and I busted out the spicy burgers, they were the hit of the BBQ. For these burgers, I use a fast easy recipe: 4 lbs 80/20 beef. 4 tablespoons Worce… worshes….wersher…. Worcestershire sauce 5 cloves of minced garlic, [...]