While Janine and Robb were here I wanted to try out my new smoker. I purchased a slightly used Superior SS1. It is a gravity fed cabinet smoker. I will explain more in a further post, but for now all you need to know is that it is awesome! I wanted to make them a [...]
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Tags: birds and bones, delicious, easy, howto, spatchcock, the slabs 
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This past weekend we had a couple of friends (Janine and Robb) visit to see Dana and I. OK, who am I kidding, they came to see Liam. Anyway, I wanted to make a cocktail to celebrate the visit. They read the blog and have been telling me that they miss cocktail Wednesday. So I [...]
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My son Liam has been cutting teeth like no other. Since he has had some teeth pop through, he has been loving real food. His favorite is Mac and Cheese, so I decided to go ahead and make some. I wanted to reward him for all of the hard work he has been doing. [...]
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Dana and I love Entenmann’s Cheese Strip Danish. So I decided to try to recreate it. Well I was partially there, but it was a fail. I failed to let the danish proof so the final product was a little dense. Further, I am pretty sure that the instant yeast that I purchased did not activate. [...]
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I love tomatoes! I am the weird guy at parties that eats the cherry tomatoes in the vegetable tray. It seems as if I am the only person that eats them. So I decided to grill some up as a side dish. They were delicious! They were a tad bit tart from the balsamic vinegar making [...]
I have been trying to come up with a new competition rib glaze that will add a nice sheen and flavor to my ribs. I tried this recipe out but it was not a right fit for my rib flavor profile. However, it was amazing and worked great as a glaze for chicken. I grilled [...]
I love meatloaf so I decided to break out the Weber and smoke one. The Weber kettle is one of the most affordable and versatile bbq tools. For $99 you can get an amazing grill and one of the best smokers around. Since I decided to smoke this low and slow I needed to come [...]
Over the holiday season Dana and I went to visit my family in Michigan. While there, my Mom made us some enchiladas. These were a tad bit different from my normal enchiladas. They were meaty and delicious. I had to have the recipe. So I asked my Mom for it and she happily gave it [...]
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I have been under the weather for the past couple of days and Dana wanted to cheer me up. So she made some of the tastiest cookies around. S’more cookies. Yep, that campfire favorite is now a tasty cookie. The chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow works great as a tasty cookie. They were so delicious, [...]
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The next cookie that Dana made for our Christmas Cookie tins was a nice Apricot Thumbprint cookie. The Apricot jam accented the sugar cookie nicely. Just like the other cookies, I could not keep these out of my mouth. Apricot Thumbprints In a large bowl combine butter with sugar, eggs, vanilla and almond extract. Using [...]
The third cookie that Dana made for our Christmas cookie tins was soft molasses cookies. These are soft and chewy with just a hint of spice. The perfect treat on a cold night. We ate a ton of these. Not sure how any were left to give away. Soft Molasses Cookies Cream together the shortening [...]
This was the second cookie that Dana made for our Christmas cookie tins. I love snickerdoodles and could not even think of a way to improve on them. However, Dana found a way. She used browned butter instead of regular butter. The brown butter gave the already amazing cookies, a great rich flavor. These are [...]
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For the next couple of posts I am handing the reigns over to my wife Dana! She was in a Christmas cookie kind of mood and we decided to have a Christmas Cookie Marathon. Dana is a great baker and here is her first recipe. Fudge Crinkles. I have never had these before, but they [...]
