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Roasted Cauliflower

Whole Roasted Cauliflower

This here’s a recipe from my new cookbook! As was our plan for world domination, this new cookbook uses the skills and techniques taught in the Learn to Cook book and goes deeper into one particular food-subject. In this case, it’s the paleo diet. Not-quite-just-in-time for New Year’s resolutions to eat healthier and junk, but [...]

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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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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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Cheese Enchiladas with Red Sauce

This was one of my favorite meals growing up. Corn tortillas filled with cheddar cheese and diced white onion, covered in red sauce, and heated just long enough for the cheese to melt, leaving the onions still crisp. My little brother hated onions when he was a kid, but my dad always insisted on putting [...]

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Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

If you don’t know, duxelles is just French for “mushrooms cooked down into paste”. Mushroom paste? Blech. No wonder they made up a fancy-sounding word for it. But it is yummy if you’re into mushrooms. If you’re not, I completely understand because I have hated mushrooms my whole life until very recently when I had [...]

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Peached Tortilla Food Trailer

The Peached Tortilla!

We’re getting the adventures started early this season! You know I have a fascination with food trucks and trailers. There’s something about the entrepreneurship behind them, the ingenuity in their design, the fact that you can DRIVE them, and the hot and sweaty working conditions that just drive me WILD. Usually the food’s pretty good, [...]

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Jalapeño Quiche

Hey. Guess where I got to go? Guess where I got to go and sit on a private verandah? Guess where I got to go and hijack a kitchen and steal a top-secret recipe? San Antonio, baby! The coolest of all the cool bed and breakfast owners on the planet invited me to their swank [...]

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Vegetarian Borscht

A couple weeks ago I had the extreme pleasure of visiting Johnson’s Backyard Garden and getting a tour of the farm. I got to pull up beets right out of the ground and eat them in the fields under the sun. It was glorious. I met Brenton, who started the farm with his family in [...]

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