I have been getting a lot of emails from people who want quick and easy recipes that are cheap. So for now on, I am going to devote thursdays to cheap eats. In this economy people want to save money and an easy way to do that is by cooking at home. Cheap food does [...]
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May 21st, 2009
Cheap Eats – Chicken Bake for $1.69 a person
Posted in Cheap Eats, Chicken, Pasta, Recipes, Vegetables 
Tags: affordable meals, Cheap Eats, Chicken, easy, good deals, how to, howto, less than $2 a person, Pasta, quick, quick tips, Recipes, Vegetables, veggies 
No Comments »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 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 16th, 2009
Pulled Pork
Nothing says summer more than firing up your smoker, sitting in the sun and drinking some beer. Last sunday it was 65 degrees and sunny so I decided that I wanted to make some pulled pork. I went to the butcher and of course, he was on vacation. So I had to choose from the [...]
Posted in BBQ, Cooking, Picnic Classics, pulled pork Tags: Add new tag, Barbecue, BBQ, Cooking, Food, Grilling, howto, meat, Pork, pork butt, pulled pork, smoke ring, smoker 2 Comments »April 15th, 2009
Review: Home Sausage Making
Every wednesday I review a cookbook to help weed out the good the bad and the ugly. This week I am reviewing Home Sausage Making. I have been addicted to everything about making homemade sausages since I took a sausage making class at sur la table in March. In the quest for more knowledge I have been grabbing [...]
April 4th, 2009
How and where to get good meat for BBQ and Sausage Making
When I started BBQ’n and making sausage I had no idea where to find good meat. I started by going to the Safeway grocery store by my house and picked up prepackaged Pork Butts and Briskets. Then I went to a specialty butcher which cost two to three times as much. I decided to call the butcher [...]
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.