Pie Dough
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 …
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Tortillas from Scratch
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 …
Fried (or Roasted) Shinshito Peppers
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 …
Blue Cheese Bechamel
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 …
Slaw
In the south, everyone has their own way of making Coleslaw. Personally, I’m not a fan yet it makes sense why people enjoy it over a spicy pulled pork sandwich on a summer afternoon. There’s a balance in the contrast between hot and cold. This is an oversimplified recipe, just …
Cornbread
It’s dawned on me that a lot of you have never eaten real cornbread. Yeah, whatever, you ate those things at that new “Southern” place but that was made with a mix and not cooked in Cast Iron. That shit ain’t Cornbread…. Real Cornbread is made from scratch and baked …