Growing up in the south, you end up eating a lot of these at church picnics and family gatherings and every grandmother and aunt has their own secret recipe that’s passed down generation to generation. They’re easy to make and a dozen eggs makes enough to please a crowd. You …
Let’s see if I can type this without having to deal with a crackhead and the cops this time….. See, as I was standing in front of the Portland bus station drafting this, my train of thought was interrupted by a crackhead with a knife getting chased by the cops …
This is the base to a lot of great things and you can go either sweet as in a fruit pie (apple, cherry, etc), or savory such as a Pot Pie or a Quiche. Yes, you can buy a premade crust and fill it but doing that is like coloring …
While there are a few good owners out there, a lot of them are shady as hell. This is how to cover your ass.
This is one more step to the basic simple syrup recipe and is a good way to show you how to adapt the basic recipes into something more dynamic. Yes, I know this sounds strange but this goes really well over ice cream or in a mixed drink Mise En …
I love Tacos. I don’t need to explain this, tacos are tacos. Then I realized that come Taco Tuesday, I get a bunch of fresh veg for the pico and I marinate some steak but I buy Tortillas. Wait wha? Why? It’s corn and water, they don’t take long to …
Let’s face it, people and even a lot of animals love to get wasted. It’s hard to say when we first started drinking alcohol since, while we’ve learned to control the process, basic fermentation happens all the time in nature. From knowing what kind of fruit would get us tipsy …
Even most chiliheads don’t know about these small, sweet, East Asian peppers but they make a great appetizer. I like to fry em personally but you can easily toss em in some oil and roast them in the oven. In fact, this is healthier than my way but I’m a …
This is one of those things that happens when you spend a lot of time smoking grass trying to come up with something different for your bar customers. Plus we had taken blue cheese crumbles off the menu and had a five-pound bag that I didn’t want to go to …
Food is supposed to unify and yet, like everything else, we have found a way to create pointless factions amongst ourselves. It’s become hip and trendy to talk trash about other people’s diets and this makes no sense to me. The biggest line in the sand seems to be between …
