“Seven Layer Dip” Burgers
Here’s the thing. I’m not normally one to go for these kinds of “impossible” burgers. Y’know, the kind of cheeseburger that’s so intent on…
Category: Meat
Sweet and Sour Glazed Pork Chops
What better way to make a meal on a budget that is moderately healthy than with these sweet and sour pork chops. But first…
Tasty Bloody Mary Burger Recipe
Behold; a novelty recipe that delivers on it’s promise! I give you the delicious and easy to make Bloody Mary burger recipe. Yes, it…
Southwest Black Bean Hummus Tostadas
Every single day is a marathon (Not that I’ve ever run, walked, or even watched a marathon. Exhausting!). Today, for example, I was up…
Grilled Pork Chops With Antipasto Relish
This is it. The solstice was just this week. Summer is finally here. Driving home through the green roads with the windows open, we smell flowers and…
Grilled Chicken Pita Wraps
Last night, after a dinner hour when the girls painted the dining room in a fine mist of glitter and spaghetti sauce and drove…
Rosemary Garlic Beef Top Round Roast with Roasted Potatoes
This dutch oven recipe works for both expensive and inexpensive cuts of round roast. If roast wasn’t hearty enough, the potatoes add nicely as…
Oven-Braised Beef Roast with Tomatoes and Garlic
This recipe is pure magic. Not because it requires some sort of next-level kitchen prowess that’s going to dazzle and delight your dinner party…
Sirloin Steak Tip Sandwich with Dubliner Cheese
I love a good cheesesteak. Because I am, after all, a human being, and my puny human brain can’t possibly hope to compete with…
Curried Shepard’s Pie
We’re in the middle of one of the weirdest winters in Maine that I can remember. There hasn’t been much in the way of…
Classic Chicken Noodle Casserole
Listen. I get it. I hear what you’re saying out there. About how this recipe is made mostly of canned condensed soup. About how…
How to Cook a Crispy-Skinned Pan-Seared Duck Breast Fillet
People can get a little bit weird about duck, and for a couple of reasons. Some people assume that it’s a luxury ingredient, an…
Italian-Style Slow Roasted Spare Ribs
These days, I’m spending a lot of time enjoying my protracted unemployment, as I wait for the 50 feet of snow we received here…
Chicken and Shrimp Jambalaya with Pork and Alligator Sausage
I’d better be straight with you, right off the bat. I have no idea if this recipe qualifies as “authentic” jambalaya. Heck, I’m not…
Tomatillo Green Chile Chicken Enchilada Casserole
This tomatillo enchilada casserole takes about 45 minutes total for preparation and cooking, but is well worth it. As always, fresh ingredients make all…
Rustic Chicken Thighs with All of the Garlic
When moving into a brand new house in Rockland, Maine in the middle of the winter, during a week where a snowstorm literally every…
Beer and Cheddar Dip with Bacon
We have a new couch. It is the first piece of furniture that we own that wasn’t given to us or found on Craigslist.…
Easy Kung Pao Chicken Recipe
Unlike many of the traditional Chinese dishes we feature, American-Chinese classics like Kung Pao Chicken actually have roots in honest-to-goodness Chinese cooking. The Szechuan…
Easy Chinese Roast Pork (Siu Yuk)
For anyone that digs on swine, Chinese roast pork may just be a nearly perfect exploration of the finer points of the animal: A crunchy…
Chorizo Sage Mac and Cheese Baked in a Pumpkin
The turducken is a modern abomination. Food should not be sewn inside other food like an edible chimera. It is, in fact, a form of engastration,…
How to Make Venison Jerky
For the next few days, my house will be in preparation mode. Preparation for Josh’s annual hunting trip. We’ll be ripping open boxes in…
How to Make Spiedies
I told Malcolm that I once went to a spiedie festival and was therefore the resident expert to write a little intro to this…