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French Onion Soup
Made some French onion soup last night. While enjoying it, I wondered what makes it French? The ingredients are butter, thinly sliced sweet onions, beef broth, water, and seasonings. Hey maybe it’s the croutons that are placed on the soup along with a slice of provolone cheese broiled. Is crouton a French word?….. Ah, I [...]
Sweet triple play barbecue sauce
Saw a recipe for triple play chicken and since baseball season is just about here, I was intrigued. The three parts for the triple play, #1) a rub, #2) some Mesquite smoking chips, #3) a barbecue sauce. I was intrigued by the sauce. I made a few changes to the original sauce recipe and I [...]
Calculating a recipe for Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza
Even though I grew up in the Chicago area, I never ate deep dish Chicago style pizza until I moved away after college. The traditional pizza was always thin crust and cut in squares. I love making pizza, but I thought it was time to have a deep dish version. After searching I found a recipe [...]
Loaded Baked Potato…Soup Style
Let’s see for a loaded baked potato…I like some bacon bits, cheese, a little sour cream and some salt and pepper. Well, how about a baked potato in soup form? To me that sounds like good comfort food for a chilly winter day. I tweaked an internet recipe to “lighten” it up, but it is [...]
Banana Pudding
Saw a bag of bananas in the grocery store yesterday for 37 cents. Now I like a banana in the morning for part of breakfast, but I only eat one a day or every other day. So would I really need a whole bag of them? The answer is yes if you want to make [...]
Mustard Based Barbcue Sauce
It was at my in-laws family reunion way back in the 90s when I first went to Columbia, SC; and part of that reunion was a barbecue cookout. The sauce though wasn’t tomato based it was mustard. It was the first time I have ever heard of it, but I became a fan. Now since [...]
Smokin’ Pork Shoulder On The Weber
I was smokin’ yesterday. You know, only the kind you do to food! Wanted to barb-b-cue some pork and I went with some hickory chips. I soaked the chips for an hour in water then placed them over the hot coals. That’s all it took to be off to the races in terms of smoke. [...]
Habanero Chili Peppers Are Hot
When I think of hot peppers, I always think of jalapeno peppers as the gold standard. Recently, I was making a sauce and one of the ingredients was just one habanero chili pepper. I went to the store to buy one of these small peppers. As I discovered, these peppers are potently hot. My hands [...]
Grilling In A Storm
What happens when you are going to grill chicken wings for a party and the sky rumbles with thunder? Most sane people would bake the chicken wings in the oven. Not me. I love chicken wings cooked over charcoal with a little pepper, then brought inside and basted with sauce in the oven for a [...]
Grilled Jerk Chicken
I was in a creative mood for something different when it comes to cooking chicken breasts. So I decided to try jerk chicken over a charcoal grill. I had to head to the grocery store to pick up some of the ingredients for the marinating paste that sits on the chicken before cooking. I bought [...]
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