Spring Pea Salad with Goat Cheese

Pea Salad with Goat Cheese Recipe Video (scroll down for printable recipe) Ah made yew a pea salad. We recently had the pleasure of visiting a dairy goat farm, Blue Heron Farm, you dewds, and I tell you it was pretty GD fantastic. Goats are so much like dogs! They come up and nuzzle you…

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Top Superbowl Food!

The only part of the Superbowl that I care about is the food and the drinking and sometimes the yelling at the TV. Since every red-blooded American is fairly adept at drinking and yelling at the TV, but maybe not so much at making the food and the snacks, this post will focus on the…

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Baked Chicken Wings

For “health month” (which we are still technically in, FYI, even though January seems to have sprawled itself out over like a decade already) I thought I’d do a baked chicken wings recipe. When we first did hot wings on the show, it was my first time with chicken wings, both eating and cooking them.…

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How To Poach An Egg!

How to Poach an Egg Video – scroll down for step-by-step instructions Check out my channel on YouTube for more Learn to Cook Videos Knowing how to poach an egg is one of the basic cooking skills that you probably should have if you like poached eggs. With a couple of tiny tricks, they’re really…

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Beef and Broccoli

Beef and Broccoli Recipe Video – scroll down for recipe card I love “Chinese” food. I mean the probably-very-far-from-the-real-thing American-style Chinese food, to be clear, dishes like beef and broccoli and the closely related broccoli in garlic sauce. When I was in high school, there was this Chinese place, Cafe Pacific, that me and my…

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Egg White Omelet

To be honest, I never got the whole egg white omelet thing. Partly because I’ve never been one to worry very much about calories or fat or cholesterol (a fact which may turn out to haunt me later but nevertheless I thank my parents for not cursing me with a bunch of body image issue…

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Carrot Cake Recipe

Carrot cake is one of those wholesome desserts that reminds me of farmers’ wives and sweaty milkmaids and healthy brown-skinned farmboys. The sight of a big round carrot cake takes my mind’s eye to the bright kitchen of a big white house in the middle of a sorghum field with a blue sky out the…

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Kale with Garlic and Sesame

Kale is one over-hyped vegetable lately, I tell you whut. I don’t mean that to sound negative and complainy, but I know it does. Alls I mean is, kale is always on those lists of “Top 10 foods you must eat NOW!” and “Eat this and live FOREVER!” and then it goes on to be…

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Roast Pork Tenderloin with Apricot Sauce

The tenderloin is a nice, lean little cut of meat taken from the back side of an animal. Tenderloins have a reputation for being tricky, but that’s a load of horseshit if I ever heard one. Pork tenderloin is especially friendly I think, much smaller than a beef tenderloin, easy to find in stores, and…

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