I've been to several baseball games this year. And I knew who was going to win the world series. All I had to do was look at their food.Let's start by comparing the teams of my two homes, for example.Yankees Stadium:The stadium is glam. The the policemen keep all kinds of serious order.It's a little…
I've been traveling a lot lately as you may have noticed, and everywhere I go the colors are breathtaking. This is the time to travel. When the earth smells of wet dirt and the air smells of burning wood and the trees are a patchwork of blazing color.
My dad sent me these photos from…
This one goes out to my friends at the magical, mystical CF Ranch for letting me take over the kitchen in their private residence and cook up some Javelina. That is love.These are the back straps from the Javelina, silver skin removed (as we talked about yesterday). They marinated for quite some time. Since Javelina…
This post should really be called, "How to Butcher a Pig in Flip Flops."You see, I was having breakfast. A Greek yogurt with strawberry jam to be exact. And it occurred to me that I needed to butcher the Javelina if I was going to have it for dinner.So I marched out to the barn…
They say that there's more than one way to skin a cat. But as far as I know, there's really only one way to skin a pig. And anyway, I think they're lying about the cat.If you've ever been to a butcher shop, this looks a little bit like what you'll see there. Except we're…
I spent yesterday making wine and smoking Javelina. For those of you who don't know what a Javelina is, it's not a pipe. It's an animal that looks like a desert rat... somewhere between a wild boar and a rat. Really. It's true.So I thought I'd show you how it all came to be.You see,…
Where is your very favorite "big sky?"One of the things I'm constantly reminded of in all of my travels is how vast this world is that we live in.There are parts of the world where the skies seem bigger to me. Where they seem lower and almost within arms reach.There are times when the sky…
As you may recall, I went apple picking with an old college friend not too long ago. It was an attempt to re-live those cool, crisp New England days.But seeing as it was 104 degrees, and we were sweaty, I don't think it was really a walk down memory lane.But we got apples. And I…
Over the weekend I went out into the wild west to work on a chapter for my next book. You would think a girl could rest on her laurels and just be done with it after "Food Heroes," but alas... someone's got to put food on the table around here.(If you want to see the…