Tue Oct 25, 2016
I haven't been so attentive to the blog recently, but that's for good reason—I've pretty much in non-stop motion for the past four weeks, a period that was kicked off with this Meatwave. The combination of the super hot summer and discovery of what it means to be a homeowner had me putting off the Meatwave ever since my housewarming cookout back in July. Now that I was ready to get things on track again after a prolonged absence, I felt the need to make up for lost time. So I picked up a ton of different meats to throw in the smoker, invited all my friends and neighbors, and put on an event worthy of being this year's Carne-val—our annual celebration of all that is meat!
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Thu Oct 20, 2016
It's safe to say that I know my way around cooking chicken pretty damn well. Long gone are days of dry, overcooked chicken breasts—I have my technique down well enough that I don't think I've turned out a bird that wasn't juicy and moist for a long time. Still, chicken has fallen to the wayside in my normal rotation because, given everything else there is to cook, chicken kinda pales in comparison (unless it's fried, of course). So when I do decide to grill up a bird, I'm usually in search of a recipe that will inject a ton of seasoning to make up for its rather drab flavor, and that's what I saw in this one for Gai Yang—Thai Grilled Chicken.
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Thu Oct 6, 2016
The brutal heat made summer feel like forever this year, but the tides are finally changing and shorter days and a chill in the air has me craving the backbone of my fall diet—orange veggies. Sweet potatoes are my go-to, but butternut squash plays an import back-up roll when I'm craving sweet, long roasted vegetables that have the taste of seasonal comfort. I'll cook them every which way—as soups, salads, pasta sauces, etc.—but this time around I went for a new idea—stuffing some seriously delicious grilled cheese with grill-roasted butternut squash.
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Tue Oct 4, 2016
Sauce Stats
Ingredients
Tomato Concentrate, Water, Tomatoes, Honey, Dark Brown Sugar, White Onion, Vinegar, Molasses, Garlic, Mustard, Chipotle Peppers, Onion Powder, Salt, and Natural Spices
Quality ingredients and great progression of flavors that include sweet, fruity, tangy, earthy, and spicy makes Swanky Sauce Mild Honey a great choice to handle almost any of your grilling or barbecue needs.
Thu Sep 29, 2016
In my last post, I reminisced on how my past picky eating habits led me to a love of Vietnamese barbecue beef—it was the only thing that sounded non-frightening to me at my first Vietnamese dining experience. I also found humor in that my old self wouldn't venture past that singular item once I deemed it an appropriate fit for my palette. In contrast, this week I'm finding another Vietnamese item as example of the distance I still have yet to go to become the ideal eater I wish I was, because while I cooked up these grilled bananas wrapped in sticky rice, they represented food aversions I'm still not able to shake.
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