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Roasted Asparagus

Roasted Asparagus with Chili Oil and Lemon

Roasting, if you are unawares, is most likely the best thing you can do to any vegetable. Asparagus takes particularly well to this treatment. Once roasted, it becomes sweet and juicy with a good, toothsome texture. I’m not really sure what toothsome means, but it makes me think of saber-toothed tigers and thereby warms my [...]

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Cajun Meatloaf Recipe

Meatloaf with Spicy Tomato Gravy

Derrr, I’m not really sure what I can tell you about Meat Loaf that you don’t already know. I mean, he only created one of the BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF ALL TIME. And then invented one of the MOST FAMOUS RECIPES OF ALL TIME. I mean, come on. The guy’s a genius right? Bat Out [...]

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Red Beans and Rice Recipe

Mardi Gras Recipe: Red Beans and Rice

It’s almost Mardi Gras so get your beads ready, or your boobs. I’m not really into that so I’ll just be at home stuffing my face with red beans and rice with sausage, maybe occasionally showing Chris my boobs just for kicks. Red beans and rice is possibly the most New Orleans of New Orleans [...]

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Homemade Fritata

How To Make a Frittata

It seems like I have many stories involving frittatas. But really, it’s just two. For starters my dad used to make them a lot. He’d always put in leftover bread or pasta or even rice. While he called it a frittata, his were really more similar to a Spanish tortilla because they’d end up being [...]

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Pepperoni Pizza

Homemade Pizza … At Home!

I never made pizza at home before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the dough the [...]

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Roast Chicken

How to Roast a Chicken

Or better yet, WHY to roast a chicken Oh, but there’s a litany of reasons, my dear — all based upon the presumption that you, my sweet, are not opposed to eating chicken — nay, that you even love eating chicken. 1. Roasting a chicken is the easiest way to cook a whole chicken. Very [...]

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Easy Cheesy Omelet

Evidently I’m on a French-kick this week. Duxelles, puff pastry, wine (secretly, of course). What’s next?! I grow a skinny moustache and start reciting poetry at a quaint sidewalk cafe?! Sacre bleu! BUT, we are rapidly approaching EPISODE 100, y’all! I swore to myself that by episode 100 I’d have ALL the basics covered in [...]

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Homemade Butter Pie Crust

Butter Pie Crust

Pie crust has a bad reputation, but it needn’t. There are only three absolute requirements to any pie crust: fat, flour, and liquid and once you understand the science behind it you’ll be making kick-ass pie crusts every time, all the time. The first step of pie crust making is very much like the first [...]

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