Pork
Thu Jan 5, 2012
Mini Pulled Pork Empanadas
Happy New Year Meatwavers! I just got back from a nice break in Texas, where I reveled with my mighty merry family for Christmas and New Years, with a jaunt in between making meatwads over a big fire deep in the heart of Hill Country (oh, and let's not forget the magical stop at City Market in Luling). After two weeks away, it's nice to be home, but how did NYC great me this year? With a high of 26 degrees! Now I'm not scared to be out cooking in the cold, but sometimes days like these call for staying inside and making due with barbecue I froze during the warmer months, which is how I originally came up with these superb pulled pork empanadas.
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Tue Nov 1, 2011
Breakfast Pizza
While I have you up and grilling sausages for breakfast, might as well take that a step further and turn those deliciously spiced patties into some extra special, breakfast pizza! While I was slightly apprehensive about what the results of this might be, it turns out that throwing an entire morning meal onto some grilled pizza dough is not only a great idea, it produces some incredible eats.
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Tue Oct 25, 2011
Breakfast Sausage
I go straight into hoarding mode at the first sign of cooling air. My summer freezer, once bare except a bag of ice and a container of homemade ice cream, starts filling with meats to get me through the fall and winter. One thing that's hard to live without during the cold winter months is a good breakfast sausage—perfect for a cold, lazy winter morning with some eggs and toast. Of course, whatever you don't freeze right away is prime for grilling while there's still light and the mornings are more brisk than frigid.
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Thu Oct 13, 2011
Planked Maple-Mustard Pork Tenderloin
Albeit I'm a bit ashamed of not liking seafood much, I also don't hide it. It's for this very reason that after more than eight years of grilling here, you have not seen one planking recipe. I've always equated planking with seafood (when searching for recipes, it can be hard to get many beyond planked salmon), but after seeing the breadth of what my blogging buddy Mike was doing over at Another Pint Please, I formed a drastically different picture of what planking can be.
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Tue Aug 2, 2011
Jerk Pork Skewers
Ugh. Summer is supposed to be cold and virus free, but I've found myself battling a minor sinus infection all July just to have it take a turn for the worst last week. I'm now left with a clogged nose and annoying cough that triggers a general malaise and strips the general joy of eating right out of me. With a loss of smell and appetite, I can easily slip into an indifference to what I'm consuming, but in these times, I try to find the few things that can continue liven up my taste buds and provide some sense of excitement to otherwise dreary days. Nothing fits this billing better than spicy foods—which has the extra benefit of temporarily clearing the sinuses—and these jerk pork skewers made with fiery habaneros is just what the doctor ordered.*
*That and Mucinex
