Well, as the old saying goes, it’s five o’clock somewhere, right? Time for a drink. Especially after I asked Meat and Tater Man to help me out in the kitchen with the dinner prep. An extra set of hands in the kitchen quickly turned into a conversation on how we have too many lids for […]
Nobu’s Teriyaki Chicken
You would think that someone who has over 500 cookbooks could come up with at least a dozen recipes for boneless, skinless chicken thighs at the snap of a finger, but today, I drew a complete blank. What to do, what to do, with these little pink mounds of flesh staring blankly back at me […]
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
“This is trashy Midwestern eating at its finest. You could be on a back road goin’ nowhere, comin’ from nowhere, and haven’t even been anywhere, when all of a sudden you would come upon a roadside dive selling this tenderloin sandwich that was so big and so divine, you’d give up your virginity and your […]
Pizza Parlour Pasta Casserole
Sometimes combining different recipe ideas into one dish works, and sometimes it doesn’t. In this case, I was really pleased when I combined the flavours of pizza with my one of my favourite carb fests, the baked pasta casserole. Not stemming from any recipe book, this recipe evolved over time. It goes something like […]
Easy Baked Beans
I come from a long lineage of people who love baked beans. And if I may say so, I also come from a long line of great cooks who have perfected the art of making slow cooked, baked beans in a crock over a low fire, or buried in hot embers, or in a first […]