The wingtacular is coming up in a couple of weeks and I wanted to give a little help to the competitors. The basis of any good wing sauce is a good hot sauce. Over the counter hot sauces are good, but if you make your own you can control the ingredients and the amount of [...]
Archive for April, 2009
April 30th, 2009
Homemade Hot Sauce
Posted in Hot Sauce, Peppers, Recipes, wingtacular 
Tags: habenero, Hot Sauce, how to, how to make hot sauce, jalapeno, long hot pepper, peppers, poblano, Recipes, wing sauce 
9 Comments »April 29th, 2009
Review: 25 Essential Techniques for Smoking
Every wednesday I review a cookbook to help weed out the good the bad and the ugly. This week I am reviewing 25 essential techniques for smoking by Ardie A. Davis. I love barbecuing and this seemed right up my alley. Artie A. Davis Artie is an award winning expert with his own barbecue university. [...]
Posted in BBQ, Book Reviews, Tips and Tricks Tags: 25 essential techniques for smoking, Barbecue, BBQ, Book Reviews, Grilling, help, how to barbecue, meat, Recipes, smoking No Comments »April 28th, 2009
Herb Garden Revisited
Update – The wingtacular has been moved up to May 16th. We still have three more open spots. Click here to learn about the wingtacular. A couple of weeks ago I planted 12 varieties of herbs and peppers in a self-watering seed starter that I purchased at Lowes. You can find the link here. The whole [...]
Posted in Gardening Tags: herb garden, herbs, peppers, seed starter, self watering seed starter 1 Comment »April 27th, 2009
Grilling Tuna to Perfection
Grilling fish can be extremely hard. Many questions come to mind. Do I need a basket? Do I need to oil the grill or the fish? How do I season the fish? Do I cook it on high, medium or indirect heat? How long do I cook it for? I had all of these questions. [...]
Posted in Cooking, fish, tuna Tags: fish, grill, grilling fish, how long to grill tuna, how to, how to grill tuna, perfect tuna, Recipes, salad, tuna, tuna salad 1 Comment »April 26th, 2009
Mandu
Last week my friend Tom came over to share his family recipe for Mandu. What is Mandu you ask? Well it is a traditional Korean dumpling. They are served fried crisp and are absolutely delicious. Crispy and delicious
April 25th, 2009
Sourdough Pizza
Last week on friday I made a sour dough starter. After stirring it today I noticed it was ready to go. The first thing that came to mind was sour dough pizza. When I was in college there was a pizzaria by my house with the best sour dough pizza. After years of trying I [...]
April 24th, 2009
What to do in DC this weekend (Apr. 24-26)
This weekend is going to be awesome. High of 87 on sunday. I can only think of one thing to do when it is that hot out. Wine Tours. Here in DC, at some the winerys you can take wine tours with your dogs. Tucker appreciates it. Tucker looking forward to a little wine tour. Fabbioli [...]
April 23rd, 2009
Awesome Chocolate Chip Cookies
I have been on a quest for the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. After a while I have figured out the ingredients needed to make a really good cookie. You need to use both butter and shortening. If you use all butter your cookies come out flat and crunchy. If you use all [...]
Posted in Baking, Chocolate Chips, Cookies, Cooking, Recipes Tags: awesome cookies, Baking, chocolate, chocolate chip, Cookies, Cooking, howto, Recipes, vanilla, worlds best 2 Comments »April 21st, 2009
Chicken Limone with Gnocchi
Update: It was a great time competing in foodie fights. In the end I ended up in 5th place. I want to thank everyone that voted. With your help I ended up receiving the 3rd most popular votes. Thanks again. The time has arrived for my entry into the Foodie Fights Battle. After you check [...]
April 20th, 2009
2nd Annual Wingtacular – Washington, DC
It is that time of the year again. The second annual wingtacular! Saturday May 16th 23rd . Last year we had 15 competitors making their own hot wing sauces. Below is the picture of last years top three. As you can see first place was the coveted wingtacular cup, yes it holds a beer. Second place was [...]
Posted in Cooking, Events, wingtacular Tags: competition, Food, Hot Wings, Recipes, Spicy, wings, wingtacular 4 Comments »April 19th, 2009
Sour Dough Starter
When i was growing up my Dad always used to make homemade sour dough bread. Since he is coming to visit in a couple of weeks I thought I would go down memory lane and make some sour dough starter. It is really simple, but takes a week to get started.
April 18th, 2009
The Infamous French Bacon Sandwich
I have been getting a few emails regarding the French Bacon Sandwich that I posted on my about page. It is really tasty. I first heard about the French Bacon Sandwich when I was in college. My old roommate Nate and I were watching the South Park DVDs and the intro for Season 2. The intro [...]
Posted in Bacon, Cooking, Recipes Tags: bacon, Cooking, Food, french dressing, howto, meat, Recipes, white bread 6 Comments »April 17th, 2009
What to do in DC this weekend (Apr. 17-19).
Tucker and I are always looking for things to do in DC. I don’t really know why, because there are always free festivities, sporting events, concerts, and farmers markets to go to. As you can see above, Tucker is looking pretty cool with his bat wing ears. Below I have compiled a list of events and [...]
September 2, 2010 (12:24) Homemade Hashbrowns I love crispy edged hash browns but have had trouble making them consistently. Great tip on getting the starch out!
August 30, 2010 (11:40) Homemade Hashbrowns Waffle House hash browns have nothing on these suckers. Delish.
August 30, 2010 (9:12) Homemade Hashbrowns YES. Excellent man. Nothing like a good hash brown.
August 29, 2010 (8:13) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Chris - It is totally time to start using up that fresh basil. If you can move it into the house. That basil is good all year.
August 27, 2010 (10:49) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Fresh basil is the best. It's getting that time of year that I need to start using up our basil plants, they have been productive this year.