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I’ve always stuck with a pretty basic salsa fresca recipe when using tomatillos in the past, but this time I decided to try more of a sauce-ish preparation. We had a little impromptu patio, grill-fest with our immediate neighbors and the consensus was that it came out excellent. about 20 medium sized tomatillos 1 small [...]

Some guy spent six years and probably tons of $$ trying to replicate the pies from his favorite pizza shop. He finally succeeded apparently (you may have to follow the “mirrored by” links at the top). It’s hard to blame him; it looks like a pretty damn good pie. The key things, according to Jeff: [...]

Our neighborhood had it’s 5th annual block party yesterday afternoon. Jenny & I have been fixtures since year one. It takes place in the park right across the street from our house, so it’s almost like having a big party in our front yard. Our contributions included a big dish of pulled-pork BBQ (saved and [...]

Get a pork shoulder (or two). You can get them from the butchers at Costco, but you have to ask. I haven’t tried asking at Whole Foods yet, which is where I prefer to get my meat, but maybe there too (for 2x the price, I’m sure, but sans the anti-biotics and such). The Rub [...]

Last week, when Jenny & I were in Little Rock, there were several conversations concerning where do we eat tonight? One suggestion that kept popping up was, how about the Italian couple, some new restaurant that was receiving lots of buzz. During all these conversations Jenny & I assumed this “Italian couple” label was just [...]

Jenny & I had the pleasure of attending the opening game of the Arkansas Razorbacks football season in Fayetteville, AR last weekend. If you’ve never experienced the tailgate scene surrounding Razorback home games, it looks something like this: Except imagine that crowd spread in a radius of 1/2 mile around the stadium. Our seats, FYI, [...]

Introducing a new category: Don’t Do This I read somewhere recently that the juice from a sweet relish makes a tasty salad dressing. This sounded reasonable, but in practice maybe not so much. I tried to transform some late season garden extras into a side dish: Toss together: A couple of chopped roma tomatoes A [...]

In response to a challenge at The Traveler’s Lunchbox, these are in no particular order really Fried Clams @ Woodman’s, Essex, MA Meatloaf w/ Creole Sauce @ Your Mama’s Good Food, Little Rock, AR My Granny’s Biscuits & Gravy Calf’s Liver & Onions @ Trattoria ai Cugnai, Venice, Italy Tasmanian Oysters @ Prosser’s on the [...]