What is the ingredient that makes hot dogs awesome. Yep, it is cheese. What is the only thing that can make a cheese dog better, Yep, Bacon!!! So I stuffed the hot dog with cheese, wrapped it in bacon and slowly roasted it over indirect heat. In return I was given the greatest hot dog [...]
Archive for August, 2009
August 17th, 2009
Grilled Artichoke Hearts
I went to the market yesterday and they had some great looking artichokes. So I picked up a couple and figured that I would grill them. Plus it would give me the opportunity to break down an artichoke and document it for the website. Cleaning artichokes is easy but I can totally see why a [...]
August 16th, 2009
Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza
I have been on a real pizza kick lately. Today I wanted to use some chicken breasts that I had in the refrigerator, but I didn’t want to just grill them. I also didn’t want to use the oven as it is still hovering around 95 degrees in DC. So I decided to make a [...]
August 15th, 2009
Asian Grilled Tofu with Quick Stir-Fried Greens
Over the past couple of weeks I have been getting a lot of emails about vegetarian and vegan food. Everyone says I focus a little too much on meat. While bacon is my favorite food, I also dabble in other types of food. Yesterday my friend Craig from college emailed me about some vegetarian recipes. [...]
Posted in Recipes, Spinach, Tofu, Vegetables, Vegetarian 
Tags: asian grilled tofu, brocolli rabe, grilled tofu, spinache, stir-fried greens, vegan, vegetarian 
No Comments »August 14th, 2009
What to do this weekend in DC – (August 14-16)
Every Friday I pick the best culinary events in the DC area for my readers to enjoy. This weekend there are some great events to attend in and around the DC metro area. This weekend DC has some great events from the Howard County Fair to the Pakistan Festival in Fairfax. Baltimore Restaurant Week - Friday to [...]
August 13th, 2009
School Cafeteria Pizza
A couple of weeks ago a reader emailed me and asked me if I could recreate the square school cafeteria pizza that we all ate when we were younger. I didn’t think it would be that hard. I love pizza and recreating the pizza that I grew up with shouldn’t be that hard, right? Well [...]
August 12th, 2009
Book Reviews: Down Home With The Neelys
Every Wednesday I review a cookbook and/or food related books to help weed out the good the bad and the ugly. This week I am reviewing Down Home With The Neelys – A Southern Family Cookbook by Patrick and Gina Neely. I am not the biggest fan of Down Home With The Neelys TV Show. Not [...]
August 11th, 2009
Chocolate Covered Bacon = Choco-Bacon
So I have been getting a ton of emails and comments from my friends that I have failed to make a bacon dessert. So I decided to make chocolate covered bacon. Salty and sweet and 100 percent awesome!!! Before I started, I discussed the possibilities of chocolate bacon with my friend Jeff and his sister [...]
August 10th, 2009
Peach Crumble
I love peaches. Now that peaches are in season I had to pick some up. One of my favorite desserts is crumble. You can make it with apples, pears, mangos, peaches etc… I love the soft fruit with the crunchy crumble with just a tad bit of vanilla ice cream. A nice vanilla bean ice [...]
Posted in Fruit, Peaches, Recipes Tags: brown sugar, cinnamon, fresh peaches, oats, peach crumble 3 Comments »August 9th, 2009
Grilled Mahi-Mahi Tacos
After reading the cookbook Weber’s Way to Grill, I wanted to grill some fish. I had no clue on what to grill. So I went to the store and looked through the selection. The only thing that looked good at the fish counter was Mahi-Mahi. So I picked up a couple of filets. When I [...]
Posted in fish, Grilling, Mahi Mahi, Recipes Tags: fish taco slaw, fish tacos, grilled fish tacos, grilled mahi-mahi, mahi-mahi tacos 5 Comments »August 8th, 2009
Portabella Mushroom Burgers
Last week I read the cookbook Weber’s way to grill. I usually only grill meat, but I have been wanting to expand my grilling repertoire. So I went to the store and found some nice portabella mushrooms. In the Vegetable section of the book there is a nice marinade for portabello mushrooms.
Posted in Mushrooms, Recipes Tags: grilled portabello mushrooms, Grilling, Mushrooms, portabello mushroom burger, Recipes 4 Comments »August 7th, 2009
What to do this weekend in DC – (August 7 to August 9)
Every Friday I pick the best culinary events in the DC area for my readers to enjoy. This weekend there are some great events to attend in and around the DC metro area. This weekend DC has some great events from the Howard County Fair to the Alexandria Irish Festival. Alexandria Irish Festival- Saturday (August [...]
August 6th, 2009
The Best Of…SavoryReviews.com
Over the past four months I have created some great posts. People keep asking me what my favorite post is and I have a hard time figuring it out. So this past week I sat down and went over all of the posts and came up with my favorites. 10. – Tostada Pizza – This [...]
