Pesto Grilled Trout With A Side Of Great Memories
We hear it all the time. Don’t look back. Keep your eye on the future. The past is past. But some things will always bring the past back, no matter if you’re actively thinking about them or not. Hopefully, when…
Holy Khachapuri! Georgian Egg Pizza Is Going To Make You Smile
You know, back before the days of chiseling ice, shoveling snow, checking to see if your ears were frostbitten, or wrapping your pashmina around your goose bump-covered neck, there was summertime, complete with enough daylight to lollygag and meander outside…
Partnering With Fire: Pinwheeled Stuffed Pork
I don’t really know when my fascination started with cooking over live fire. I’ve always been intrigued with the whole process, start to finish. Get the coals lit. Bring the fire up to fully engage the lump charcoal or wood….
Cedar-Planked Maple-Dijon Glazed Salmon: Ushering In The Fall Season
Well, I suppose it’s come to this now, hasn’t it? Emboldened backyard varmints prepare for a winter without fresh food by blatantly and fearlessly raiding our gardens and porches of anything remotely edible. Trees begin their annual, eye-catching color transformation…
Shake, Shake, Shake Shakshouka…
You sang that title line, didn’t you? Yeah, you did? No? Well, you’ll be singing it after you eat this one-pan dish that gets wonderfully enhanced flavors from fire roasting the veggies. And ya gotta eat your veggies, so you…
The Victory Galette: A Tomato Success Story
There’s been a lot of battles over fruits and veggies in our backyard, and frankly, our success rates against nature’s vegetable stealing hooligans have been questionable at best. Birds and chipmunks for sure, but man, the rabbits, and squirrels have…
Pad Thai Chicken…And Waffles: Pad Thai Chicken & Waffles
I know what you’re thinking, and I hope we can still be friends. I mean, this should work, right? It could work, right? What if I told you I used a chunky peanut butter waffle mix from Kodiak Cakes? Would…
When Life Gives You Chorizo, You Gotta Make Paella
Well that was fast, wasn’t it? I’m talking about this spring and summer. I just don’t know where they went, yet here we are, rolling through back-to-school department store commercials and bus stop weather forecasts from the local weather prognosticators….
Fall Harvest On A Plate: Pork Tenderloin Over Apples, Red Onions and Squash
Any lingering doubts have been pushed to the side and run over like a door greeter at a Black Friday sale. Fall has arrived, apparently bringing the start of winter along for the ride. And as is usually the case, accompanying…
Pizza Cones, Bacon Weaves, and Whaddya Know, Geometry Finally Matters
It took decades, but I finally got to put that old geometry class to use, sort of. You know, the old “How much volume does that cone have?” sort of thing. It was an important question too, as I had…
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