I made this a while ago and jotted the notes down on my iPhone then forgot about it.  Hooray for randomly opening the notes app to make a note of something and seeing it! This is a very simple recipe that creates a nice side salad, or even a meal if you want to top [...]

This was an especially difficult recipe for me. My culinary training was in Southwestern grilled food, Italian, and BBQ. I say "training" because I was a line cook for restaurants that made all those types, and quite well I might add. But ever since I left the restaurant business and started cooking solely for myself [...]

Continuing my effort to document how I cook stuff so I can remember how to make it consistently here is another recipe I’ve started doing regularly. Rochto and I are asparagus fiends. I always did mine the tried and true awesome way of a couple tablespoons of olive oil and salt and pepper in a [...]

I do this to myself way too much. I choose a bold new never-before-tried thing to cook when it’s a big holiday and I have guests. Then I fret the entire time over whether or not I can pull it off. Thankfully this worked out. Tonight we enjoyed large cuts of pretty much perfect Prime [...]

I’ve written before about my yearly tradition of doing different things each thanksgiving food wise. This year I’ll be doing my quail recipe but will also be doing a prime rib roast. I’m very excited about this because it’s the first time I’ve gotten the roast far in advance to dry age it in the [...]