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BBQ Buffalo Meatballs

buffalo + salt + egg + bread crumbs (yes, we used panko) + Big Daddy’s BBQ Sauce + cast ironI have professed my love of cast iron before.  It continues to impress me.(There were more in the pan…but I ate most of them.)

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maxim was wrong

We ate at Muggsy’s Sub Gallery last Saturday night. Muggsys had been on a shrinking list of restaurants in the area that we had never eaten at…so we did. It was terrible. Enough said.

Oh yeah, and last year Maxim thought Muggsy’s had one of the best sandwiches in the world.

Maxim […]

I don’t mean William Perry

Alton Brown had to stop his ’send me pictures of your fridge’ campaign, so I thought I’d pick up where he left off. Here is a picture of ours. What’s yours look like?

The grapes, they are a changin’

They’re turning purple. That can mean only one thing…

…invasion! By October, they will have taken over the entire back yard!

An explosive combination

We made beer bread. Yes. Bread that tastes like Guiness. It’s particularly good with roast beef.

Looks like I’m not the only one…

…who thinks Bobby Flay is annoying.

Salmon in the rough

Rather than blogging about how I can’t eat, I might as well blog about what you should eat. This is the salmon “recipe” that won such high acclaim from bob and others.

Here’s what you need:
1-2 lbs salmon filets
2 TBSP EV Olive Oil
1 tsp White Pepper
1 tsp Ground Black Pepper
1 tsp Ancho Pepper
A few pinches […]

Culinary post mortem #2

It’s no KFC.

I made up this recipe a while back after seeing a few people in the food tv channel network make roast chicken. Recently L suggested I use a stoneware roaster instead of the usual metal one. Holy moist chicken.

Cutting board, clockwise from the top: a few red potatoes, a […]

Culinary post mortem #1

This is the first of what will hopefully be a tradition of posts about cooking, both good and bad. Today’s installment: Thai noodles with Chinese chives…sorta.

First of all, I had to make some substitutions:
I don’t know where you buy Chinese chives, but I’m pretty sure such a place isn’t called HyVee. So I […]