A few weeks ago in Arkansas, my friend Paul Michael made a dish he makes regularly whenever someone has caught a nice redfish or bass. They all call it "coo-bee-on" and so I just assumed it was another one of their local regional dishes that this Yankee was unfamiliar with.
And then I saw…
Aren't you desperately curious to know what I did with those cherries I picked from my cherry tree with my homemade cherry picker?Well let me show you...
My arms got rather tired and I wasn't especially ambitious about getting them all that evening, since it seemed like an impossible feat. But! I had enough to make…
Young squirrel is good simply quartered and fried. Old squirrel is good stewed. When in doubt, it is safest to braise or stew a squirrel. Sometimes, for flavor and for whimsy, I like to add acorns to this recipe. Native Americans used to eat acorns, usually by grinding them and then boiling them. They are…
This week I'm doing a series of Thanksgiving recipes before I announce some big news next week. Get ready!I'm going to call this series "Thanksgiving Revisited: How to spice up your Thanksgiving dinner."It includes a lot of the usual food themes but with a little twist or two.First off, is the wonderful irreplacable cranberry dish.…
I've decided that I might be insane. For example, I drove up to Dallas last night after attending a very important pumpkin carving party where I ate ribs and chicken legs like a cave woman.I couldn't tell how fast I was going because for some reason the speedometer on my car changed to kilometers so…
In just a few hours, I'm going to be picking up two of my favorite people from the airport, Todd and Diane from White on Rice Couple. Then we're jetting off to Joshua Creek Ranch, the place where I shot that magazine cover a few months ago, and guess what we're doing there? We're shooting…
I could show you this fully finished step-by-step recipe a few months from now, [scroll down, I've added the finished steps!] but what good would that be if you had to wait many months for dandelions to come back around? So instead, I'm going to give you the recipe and show you the step-by-step up…
This is the time of year when a lot of your proteins are in the freezer, since in many places, it is the “in between” season.One of my favorite things to do in these months is cure meat and fish. If I can manage to do it before it hits the freezer even better, but…
As you know, I like changing people's minds. It makes me fuzzy inside. Most people don't like brussels sprouts. It's the black sheep of vegetables... "eeew brussels sprouts," is the default way to use it in a sentence. But they really are lovely little things, if you cook them to the edges of crispiness rather…