When I was a kid, an Irish Catholic kid, Thanksgiving was huge. More than huge… It was a gathering of enormous porportions! The crowd was larger than any other holiday of the year. At one point, my mother, along with her two sisters, and their husbands, herded a flock of 23 children.
Yes. It was 23 [...]
While this is a cooking/recipe site, I recently started uploading videos to Youtube so that I can put them on my website. I saw this one today… and because I have been busy all weekend doing the Kraft Video Recipe Challenge I didn’t write anything, so… I couldn’t help myself.
The other day I wrote about my crab addiction, and I promised I would show you how I cook, clean, and crack a live Dungeness Crab. Well, here it is!
When cooking with Carlos Manriques, he showed me such an entirely new technique to making a stuffed chicken roll that I just had to try it myself. Try it I did… And I must say, it was a complete success (thank God, because there was no dinner back up whatsoever).
Part of the appeal to me [...]
I am convinced that, one day, Fresh Dungeness Crab will be my ticket to hell… Really.
I was raised to believe in the Seven Deadly Sins, (a fallen Catholic, if you will) and have come to the conclusion that my personal Chariot to those fiery depths will be teathered to multiple crabs, side-stepping their way [...]
Ok… I have thought about this post all day. Carlos and I cooked (OK - so mostly I washed the dishes) for 2 hours or more (with breaks of course), and made an incredible meal. One that I would not post on this website had I only read about it, because the ingredients and techniques [...]
Tonight we are having good friends over, or should I say some good friends are coming over - because really, it wasn’t our invite, it was theirs. They want to cook for us, (who would say no to that?) and it was our place or theirs, so I chose ours. Bigger Kitchen, bigger table, and [...]
A friend asked me how I cook ribs today - so I thought it was something necessary to have early on in this blog.
Five years ago, I had no idea how to cook ribs. It was another of those things (read; obsession) that I had eaten or ordered somewhere, and decided I had to learn [...]
Ok, this will be a shorter post simply because it’s late and I can’t fit everything into my day that I want to.
For my birthday today, I got a new laptop, and I am soooo freaking excited to be typing while sitting in the living room, with other people, leaning back, feet up in a [...]
