Amazingly, An Actual Original Pork Chop Recipe – Braised Pork Chops with Lime...
I used to make these braised pork-chops quite regularly – several times a year, but I hadn’t made them for probably a year until last Thursday when Amy and I realized that we hadn’t even eaten pork...
View ArticleLow and Slow – Even More Succulent Pernil, But Only If You Have the Time!
Many, many moons ago, I published my recipe for pernil, the delicious Puerto Rican roasted pork butt/shoulder. Recently, I had a whole Saturday afternoon to try a longer and slower cooking method for...
View ArticlePancake Day – A Noble Tradition Worth Keeping
In the British calendar the final Tuesday before Lent is known as “Shrove Tuesday”, though it’s more often referred to as “pancake day” in modern times. The derivation of the word “shrove” is unclear...
View ArticleJamaican Jerk Chicken with Rice & Pea and Tostones (Fried Green Plantains)
Ahhh, jerk chicken. One of my favorite dishes. It’s spicy, kind of sweet and when made well should almost melt in your mouth. On a cold winters night, there’s nothing that can snap you out of a...
View ArticleBlood Oranges, Bringin’ the Food Community Together (And A Few Blood Orange...
I should’ve written this drunk, as it may be a funnier, better post. You see, like many of you out there, I tend to get loved up when I’m drunk. This is exactly why I was specifically told not to use...
View ArticleI Can Bake! I Can Bake! I… ok, I Really Still Can’t Bake (But I Tried)
I tried… after my first failed attempt at baking a strawberry cake in order to use up some nasty-looking, dying strawberries (that I bought hungry and on sale… natch) in my fridge, my ego was so...
View ArticleDrink of the Month December: Mulled Wine – What Else?
Even though mulled wine should remind me of being in the church choir as a cherub-faced youngster and singing Christmas carols with frosty breath overlooking a seasonally-decorated nave and a sea of...
View ArticleMariah Carey Makes Me Want to Eat Ecuadorian Ceviche!
Since parenthood came into my life, so has weight gain. It hasn’t been all that bad but I think I weigh a bit more now than I did in the days after I pushed that child out. Why? Because the gym is now...
View ArticleMeat Meets Med: Duck with Burned Orange Confit
On our first afternoon in Buenos Aires, as we lazily wandered the Palermo district, stupefied by an overnight flight and a filling lunch featuring our first Argentine steak and an immoderate milanesa...
View ArticleU-Pick Citrus: The Real Florida Orange Juice
I have never known an aroma quite like it before: an intense, aromatic perfume. We could smell it from miles away – even before we had passed the last of the strip centers and construction sites. On...
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