Well it is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I wanted to give a few pointers. Thanksgiving can be a stressful time for any cook. Accepting or asking for help is not a sign of weakness. It can the one thing that keeps you sane during this sometimes stressful holiday. Below I have listed a few [...]
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Tags: dessert, easy, how to, picking, Sides, Thanksgiving, thawing, Turkey 
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I have a vast collection of cookbooks. Some are new and some I have collected from yard sales and random book sales. I was looking through one random book on baking when a cutout of random paper fell into my lap. That cutout was from a July issue of Coastal Living, and described this brownie [...]
I love grilled chicken. However, if you cook boneless skinless chicken breasts life can become dry and boring. So I devised a surefire way to cook chicken, keep it moist and give it a smokey bacony flavor. Yep, skewer the chicken with a couple strips of bacon. The fat keeps the chicken moist and imparts [...]
Happy Memorial Day! I just want to give a quick shout out to all of the Veterans out there that have served this country. Thank you very much for all that you have done. The United States would be nothing without you. As for today, it is the best grilling day of the year. Get [...]
Posted in All, BBQ, Events Tags: Cocktails, coleslaw, condiments, entrees, how to, ketchup, Lobster, memorial day, mustard, Recipes, refreshments, Ribs, shots, Sides No Comments »
Memorial Day is the ultimate grilling day! Nothing goes with hot dogs like Mustard. The other day I tackled homemade Ketchup, and today I am tackling the other half. Homemade Mustard. Once again making your condiments homemade allows you to determine what goes into your sauces. No high fructose corn syrup, preservatives or fillers. [...]
Posted in All, BBQ, Recipes, Sides Tags: best, homemade mustard, honey, honey mustard, how to, mustard, recipe, scratch, Spicy 2 Comments »
I was starving for a French Dip sandwich the other day. So I jumped head first into my collection of cook books to see what a French Dip sandwhich consisted of. I wanted to get the herbs right. Who knew but the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook had a quick and easy recipe for it. [...]
Posted in All, Recipes, Sandwiches, beef Tags: au jus, Beef, beef dip, french dip, how to, recipe, sandwich 2 Comments »
Even though it was just Dana and I for Easter, I made a giant honey glazed ham. I could not help myself. Plus I love leftovers. But then you have to figure out what leftovers to make. There are a million tasty little creations that you can make with leftover ham. I decided to make [...]
Posted in All, Pizza, Recipes Tags: easter leftovers, easy, ham, hawaiian pizza, honey ham, how to, leftovers, pizza, Pizza Dough, Pork, sauce No Comments »
I just went and got the gas in the grill refilled and I was ready to grill out. I just didn’t know what to grill. I asked Dana and within a second she said skirt steak with chimichurri sauce. It took little to no effort on her part to come up with this. I had [...]
Posted in All, Mexican, Steaks, beef Tags: chimichurri sauce, Grilling, how to, Mexican, Recipes, skirt steak 4 Comments »
The weather here in DC has been like a rollercoaster. Everywhere from the mid 90′s to the low 40′s all in the span of a week. Needless today everybody is suffering from a little cold. So I decided to make homemade chicken noodle soup (Recipe on Saturday), however I wanted to make noodles from scratch. [...]
Posted in Pasta, Recipes Tags: chicken noodle soup noodles, dumpling noodles, egg noodles, homemade noodles, how to, recipe 3 Comments »I have been getting a lot of emails on how I take photos and where I get my dishes. Readers are constantly asking what kind of camera I use, what lenses, and how do I get the perfect photos. Well I must admit not all of the photos are perfect, but there is a method [...]
Posted in Best Of..., Cooking, Uncategorized Tags: cameras, dishes, food blogging, how to, lighting, photos, pictures, plates 2 Comments »It has been super nice here in DC. This weekend is supposed to reach the 80′s. So I decided to make a nice refreshing cocktail. This week’s cocktail is the strawberry daiquiri. This is a quick and easy rum based drink, as long as you have a blender. No blender, then this might not be [...]
Posted in Cocktails Tags: cocktail, daiquiri, Drinks, easy, how to, recipe, rum, strawberry daiquiri 2 Comments »I am always on the look out for new sauce recipes. This past weekend I dusted off the smoker and made some pulled pork. Dana’s family was in town and her Dad said he was a fan of Memphis style sauces. So I went around the interwebs and found this one. It was quick and [...]
Posted in BBQ, Recipes, bbq sauce Tags: Easy BBQ Sauce, how to, how to make a bbq sauce, memphis sauce, memphis style sauce, recipe 7 Comments »
My friends Ryan and Melissa have been promoting my site to all of their friends and have helped increase my readership. So in return, I decided to cook them dinner. I asked Ryan what he wanted and without hesitation he said ribs. This worked perfectly as I have been getting a lot of emails about cooking ribs [...]
