A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine that lives in Arizona and is aware of my obsession with food tinkering from my constant postings on Facebook, said he was sending me some chiles from his neck of the woods. A couple days later the doorbell rang and there sat a large brown box […]
This year we wanted to start making more things at home and rely less on the convienent but low quality meat of my local Food Lion. For Christmas I received a Kitchen-Aid mixer with the grinder and sausage making attachments. Like Ralphie with the Red Rider BB gun I couldn’t wait to tear the box […]
This is part two of the post about Rose’s Meat Market and Sweet Shop’s Whole Hog Butchery Class. To see part one of click here As Justin previously explained, the group in the kitchen would start with the shoulder, the group in the dining room would handle the loin/belly and the group in the living […]
I was recently looking at a food magazine where they cut a hole out of the middle of a piece of bread and cooked an egg inside. Since my mind is always wondering around swine, I thought it would be a good idea to put sausage inside it. Makes perfect sense since they are always […]
There are a few rules I like to follow when I am on a ship: 1. Stay on the Captain’s good side 2. Stay on the Cooks good side 3. Only pee off the lee side (for you land lubbers, dont piss into the wind) Violating the first one can land you in an unemployment line. Number two […]
When I think of great ways to spend a weekday afternoon, many things come to mind. In general doing something new involving food is a winner and that is how I spent my Tuesday afternoon at the Crosby Fish and Shrimp Pier in Folly Beach, South Carolina. Trying boiled peanuts for the first time, ripping the […]
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