Update and Redux: J – This is not just my ultimate Winter celebration dinner menu. It is a life-commitment, marriage-proposal, best-ever-meal-in-your-life kind of dinner. If only I had such an opportunity … ah! That said, you don’t need that … really … even if it’s cute and romantic. Just do … Continue reading
Update and Redux: J– This dish is one of my all time favorites. Great herb-rubbed steak, duck-fat fries and Padron peppers. Although, it’s biggest appeal is that it reminds me of Paris. You can still get classic steak frites there. But. more often, chefs are creating dishes like this one. Some … Continue reading
Update and Redux: C – Salmon BLT is one of Jim’s favorites. He loves that we have a great fish monger down the street. As long as he makes it there before they close at 5:00pm, he’s good-to-go for making this BLT. Of course, the homemade bacon also needs to … Continue reading
Update and Redux: J – This dish takes me back to almost the beginning of Be Mindful. Be Human. Luke was doing lots of cooking. We were doing lots of learning … about pretty much everything. How to cut vegetables. How to sear fish. How to plate beautifully. A long … Continue reading
Update and Redux: C – This week we celebrate Jim with all of his favorite Be Mindful. Be Human. recipes. One of Jim’s favorite things to make on Mondays is burgers. These pork-a-palooza sliders are one of his favorite burgers. He loves flavorful, juicy burgers … so adding Cajun spices … Continue reading
J – Pretty much the whole dinner in one big sandwich. It’s huge and hugely delicious. Really helps to have great, moist turkey and house-made bacon. I guess I’m spoiled now. Back in the day, I would not have made this sandwich. Now, it’s my go-to post turkey day lunch … Continue reading
C – Vegetarians have it hard this time of the year, I know … being one of them. Should I just cheat and eat some turkey? I really really want to. But, I promised myself I would be a vegetarian as long as I could. Tofurky isn’t my idea of … Continue reading
C – Warning: This isn’t your typical Turducken. If you are expecting a deboned whole chicken stuffed into a deboned whole duck with a semi-deboned whole turkey with stuffing between each layer … this isn’t it. I have had that version and I was disappointed. I honestly don’t care how … Continue reading
Update and Redux: J – This is one of those because-we-can recipes. Of course, it helped that Luke and Chris did it … this time. I did repeat it later in the month. Not hard at all. Just some advance planning. At the event I did it for, the smoked … Continue reading
Update and Redux: J – This magic brine revived me from a life-long pit of hating turkey. To me, turkey could never taste rich, flavorful and moist … without pumping it full of all sorts of mystery stuff. I wasn’t going there. We had been experimenting with brines for awhile. … Continue reading