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Archive for Recipes
Before Thanksgiving: Make Your Condiments Early!
You want to have a great Thanksgiving this year? Then make as much stuff as you can now! Include a couple of novel condiments for the table:
Cranberry Kumquat Chutney
Zesty Olive Tapenade
Don’t settle for the same, boring ol’ cranberry sauce this year! Make a fruit chutney instead. Your relatives will forgive you. [...] Read more »
Before Thanksgiving: Appetizers for Football and Bribes
Thanksgiving’s just around the corner, so to speak. Today’s the last day of the college football season for some teams, and that’s a more pressing issue for most of us. Almost no football left!
What to serve to the screaming hordes who are coming over to watch the game on your 112-inch flat-screen plasma TV? (You [...] Read more »
F4F: Tom Yam Soup Your Way
This is the last Fish 4 Friday before Turkey Day hits us in the beltline. With cold weather now affecting most of us (in North America, at least), I decided to take us back to the Tropics with a healthful, spicy dish that also fills our craving for soup:
Tom Yam Soup Your Way
This is a [...] Read more »
Review: Mesa Rosa Mexican Restaurant
When my wife and I moved back to the Republic after completing our “missionary work” (four years in purgatory proselytizing to the heathens in the wilderness of Michigan, up near Santa’s house somewhere), we lived for a short while way out northwest of the city. We were actually in Williamson County, and a long drive [...] Read more »
Food BOM for November: The Uncornered Market
I like to travel, I love beautiful photography and excellent writing, and I simply must have good food (and information about same).
This month’s Food BOM winner meets all those elements. No, let me correct myself: The Uncornered Market exceeds all those needs. By a long ways!
The Uncornered Market has a novel premise. The site owners, [...] Read more »
Spicy Steak: Tenderloin with Poblano Cream Sauce
Tenderloin steak is the queen of beef, in my opinion. (Sirloin is king, for me.) Every now and again I get a huge hankering for tenderloin on the grill.
Problem is, it’s always the same: Marinate, wrap with bacon, season and scorch. That’s it. Meat the Real Man way, minus the stick. Boring.
I won’t ever have [...] Read more »
Carolina Style Pork Butt: Sweet Tasty Heat
Barbeque has many regional contrasts, with some folks favoring sweet, others tomatoes and spice, still others prefering spicy or a bit sour. Carolina ‘que is known for smoky-sweet goodness, with some of that vinegar-sour I mentioned, and often quite a bit of spicy zing.
Pork is favored in the Carolinas, although the sauces and “mops” vary [...] Read more »
Eat Your Veggies: Brussels Sprouts So Good Even Kids Like Them
Kids don’t like them, usually. Even Presidents don’t like them. They’re so unpopular that it only takes 300 acres of them to supply the whole USA’s demand for half a year.
The Brits eat them, when they can’t get peas. A pundit once opined, “The English have only three vegetables, and two of them are cabbage.” [...] Read more »
