I spent several years in college working for Iriana’s Pizza, the best pizza joint in Little Rock, AR. Some might think that’s not saying much, but Little Rock actually has pretty wide variety of good, independent pizza. There was also Vino’s, U.S. Pizza, Pizza D’Action (my afterhours stomping ground), and Olde World Pizza.
OK, so first [...]
I had a couple of pork tenderloins rubbed with some seasoned salt and pepper all set to go on the grill last night. But the weather didn’t cooperate. The situation called for a last-minute recipe switcheroo, so I dug out an old fave that I haven’t made in awhile.
Rub each tenderloin with about 1 Tbsp [...]
It ain’t like at a restaurant for sure. Partly due to lack of a good source of some of the key ingredients, like dried radish and dried shimp. Partly due to I like to throw extra stuff in there. Mine is more of a noodle stir-fry with a tamarind sauce, but oh well.
This is one [...]
For the Pats vs. Colts AFC Championship game we wanted something hearty but also easy to serve in case some neighbors made good on their intention to drop in for the first half. So I threw together a beef stew from a recipe in Fistful of Lentils, a cookbook of “Syrian-Jewish recipes”. The translation of [...]
I knew I had the makings of a shephards pie (except the lamb) but couldn’t find an exact recipe to match what I had available, so I ended up taking ideas from two separate recipes. One was from Didi Emmon’s Vegetable Planet, the other from Allrecipes.com.
For the veggie base, use 2 tbs olive oil to [...]
A strangely warm and sunny weekend for New England in January. Patriots vs. Jets playoff game on the tube. How could I not throw some meat on the grill?
I bought a bunch of bone-in chx breasts in the morning. During halftime I rubbed them down with a mixture of:
black pepper
paprika
sugar
chili powder
salt
ground mustard
allspice
cinnamon
a pinch of ground [...]
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 shallot, chopped
1 [...]
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 (enough [...]
This year we have two jalapeno plants doing very well. Too well, in fact. And big bunches of jalapenos aren’t something you can just easily pass on to the neighbors, co-workers, etc. Who needs more than one or two at a time?
Fortunately I came across a recipe for Sweet Jalapeno Relish. After some tweaking, the [...]
Tabor is an ex-co-worker of mine from Smarter Living. He and his wife, Rachel, just happened to pull up in front of my house last night at the exact moment I was pulling some Turkey Burgers and Sweet Potato Fries off of the grill. He was just dropping off a letter of recommendation for my [...]
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