Field Trips

Come along on some food adventures with me! SEE! A 10,000 foot Ferris Wheel! SEE! A two-ton glass chandelier! SEE! Two adults crashing around a tiny trailer kitchen! TASTE! The rainbow!

Tastemade Studios Tour (with Nicko’s Kitchen!)

Things have been moving so fast here lately, it’s easy to forget that we were in Santa Monica just 9 days ago for the launch of Tastemade – a new YouTube food channel. While we were there we met up with Rob Nixon of Nicko’s Kitchen and shot this tour of their studios.

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Louie Mueller Barbecue

Join me on a trip to the famous Louie Mueller Barbecue joint. See how to smoke a beef brisket, Texas-style, and learn the history behind a great Texas tradition. LINK: http://www.louiemuellerbarbecue.com/ And don’t miss the second video on our Texas BBQ series which will teach you how to make brisket at home.

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Fried Green Tomatoes

We always had a little garden when I was growing up. Not like a farm, but just a little plot behind the house, down the hill a bit, under a giant cottonwood tree with a swing tied to its branches. I didn’t really have much to do with the garden, aside from harvesting. My parents [...]

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Peached Tortilla Food Trailer

Sweet Potato Breakfast Tacos

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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Hilah vs. The Texas Rollergirls

Okay, okay, okay, so I know I’m supposed to be on vacation right now. But dig this. The Texas Rollergirls asked me to do ‘em a favor and I could not refuse. You’d have to be a FOOL to refuse a favor asked of you by the Rollergirls. Do I look like a fool to [...]

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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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Bacon Takedown

Bacon Takedown

WARNING: There is more cussing and cleavage than usual in this episode. About a month ago, my “producer” emailed me about this “Bacon Takedown.” Sure, fine, whatever, sounds good, sign me up. I’m confident — why shouldn’t I be? I can cook bacon good. I didn’t think about it much more than that. Two weeks [...]

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