March 17, 2020 This fear of catching COVID-19 has really slowed our lives down; what better escape than to cook. We shopped online for our weekly groceries for the first time; unfortunately, New Seasons didn’t have any corned beef left. In real life, if they didn’t have corned beef I would have not bought all …
Cook date: March 15, 2020 Back in November 2018 I made an Italian Meat Sauce recipe. It rated 3 stars but I thought I could find a way to move it up a star. Finally this past January I tried again with the adjustments I thought would improve it. No go, it was much too …
February 2, 2020 We interrupt the posts on our Arizona trip for this important bulletin. For more years than I can keep track – going back to at least 2013 (first blog post I can find) – we’ve hosted a Super Bowl party with a small group of close friends. Since our youngest son moved …
Date: January 14, 2020 This was my third practice work with my Sony A6600 camera. I’d done outside foliage, and trains, today it was cooking. I tried a recipe I had done before but that only rated three stars. My notes had some ideas about what could be done to get another star. Let’s get …
Cook Date: August 24, 1019 Last spring I bought a Mak 2 Star pellet grill; it worked very well for me so I sold my Weber kettle charcoal grill and my Weber gas grill figuring the Mak could do it all: low ‘n slow as well as high temp searing and grilling. The new grill …
Date: July 20, 2019 My Sister-in-Law’s garden is in full bloom. She came over for dinner this evening and brought along four different kinds of squash. It was a beautiful night so I started up the grill. I broke out my Mak grilling pan for the first time. After they had a head start, I …
Date: July 16, 2019 We’ve eaten a lot of beef lately so we decided to lighten things up a bit. After soaking a 7×15 cedar plank in water for a couple of hours I fired up the grill to 350° and lightly salted a small salmon fillet. When the grill was up to temp, the …
Cook Dates: July 7 & 13, 2019 I’m going through my standard grilling and barbecue recipes to see how they work on my new Mak 2 Star pellet cooker. I’ve worked my way up to Santa Maria Tri-Tip; one of my favorite cuts of beef. We invited our friends, the McD’s, over so I wanted …
Last weekend Carla and I went to Boise to attend the wake for my good college friend Craig – The Chief – Eldridge. It was wonderful to spend and afternoon late into the night remembering our friend. Along the way, someone asked why I haven’t posted about cooking recently. Let’s rectify that today, shall we? …
Cook Date: March 23, 2019 I’ve made this dish many times before and have blogged about a few times including most recently in 2016. I’m blogging about it here mostly because I used my new lighting setup – two flashes mounted on stands shooting through white umbrellas. But also because it’s so good and so …