Category: Experiments

I was planning on making grilled pork chops and vegetables for dinner tonight. However, when I got home from the gym thunder was starting to rumbling which didn’t bode well for outdoor cooking. When it rains here it POURS and it looked like we were going to have a monsoon style downpour. Luckily I have […]

So when I was visiting friends last week, I convinced them to try a pizza experiment and make a pair of pizzas. One on the grill and another in the oven. I’ve made homemade pizza quite a few times but I typically bake it in the oven. However, with the summer in full force, using […]

Earlier in the spring I whined about having more beets that I knew what to do with. To use some of them up I made Red Velvet Chocolate Beet Cupcakes, which were a total hit with my co-workers for their moist texture and deep dark chocolate flavor. Another batch of the beets got pureed and […]

[singlepic id=148 w=320 h=240 float=right] Two weekend ago I started my homemade corned beef project. I made a nice brine and packed 4 pieces of beef brisket into ziptop bags filled with brine. This was put into the refrigerator for 7 days. The following weekend I removed the ziptop bags from the fridge emptied the […]

I’ve been wanting to try making sweet potato fries from scratch for a while now. Mostly because I’ve had them several times at restaurants and they were quite tasty. But also because sweet potatoes have less starch than regular potatoes making them more friendly to my diabetic spouse. I wanted an “oven fried” recipe though […]

One thing I’ve always wanted to try is to make is corned beef from scratch. What I mean by this is that one takes a beef brisket and brine it for a period of time. Typically 7-10 days. This turns the brisket into the corned beef that you’re used to buying and cooking from the […]

I was reading about different ways to use red lentils last night and came across a blog post about a person grinding red lentils in their coffee grinder to make flour and using this is various ways. One way was to make lentil chips which sounded yummy. Another way that people were describing using the […]

This time of year one of the vegetables commonly available is kale. I’ve tried making this vegetable several different ways in order to get my spouse to eat it. I’ve braised it, put it in soup, made little “kale meatless balls” with it. Alas, no success. This week I decided to take a different tack. […]

We eat a lot of vegetables in my house but my spouse a kinda of fussy about what he likes and doesn’t like. Add to this the fact that I get sick of eating the same things repeatedly and it makes trying to find 6 different vegetables to cook each week a little challenging. So […]

A week ago my spouse had a craving for chili and I was feeling ambitious so I decided to try to make a more “Texas style” chili with fewer beans and more hunks of meat instead of ground beef. I started with a package of bone-in short ribs which I seared in a my enameled […]