November 2009

Chili – True, Honest Texas Chili

11.27.2009

Well, only buy these dry chiles from stores that have good turnover, so they have to continue to order them fresh from the source. After all, we all don’t live in New Mexico. One way for your to know if you have a good store/source is the dried chiles should be pliable (but not damp) and of course should not have any signs of mold.

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Cornbread Muffins with Green Chiles

11.25.2009

Cornbread Muffins are some of the basic food groups, I mean the south go it right with the sweet cornbread. This Cornbread muffin recipe blends the sweet from South East with the spice from the South West regions of our great country with great green chiles.

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In & Out Burger

11.21.2009

For millions of Southern Californians, folks in Las Vegas and Arizona have experienced a burger joint called In & Out. Simple burgers – just burgers and shakes. Cheeseburger Shakey became the call and a fascination occurred with this simple burger joint combined with amazingly low prices.

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Sausage, Apple and Cranberry Stuffing

11.18.2009

Every Thanksgiving I try to mix up the traditional stuffing mix of boring ingredients of just bread, stock and onions and celery. While each stuffing needs some mixture of the a fore mentioned ingredients, I feel that creativity sometimes eludes Thanksgiving and resign ourselves to recipes that give way to nostalgia rather taste.

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Brined Turkey – Commercialized?

11.15.2009

So there I was on Sunday reading other food bloggers I follow. Reading how to make a good honest hamburger from ground chuck and there I saw it. A link to Williams and Somona for Turkey Brine. There selling this stuff? Why? And what are they selling it for $18.00? My heavens – their making a killing on this. The cost is about maybe $3.00 – a 600% profit margin? Have we really gotten this lazy – I mean – the ‘traditional version’ is just a cut and dump – this version is a twist and dump – and because its dried – I would question its potency.

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