Cooking, With John

Pumpkin, not just for pies

2011-11-06T18:51:00.001-05:00

Roasted pumpkin from our CSA got the gourmet treatment, accompanied by bacon, sage and almonds. It basically made a sauce for the penne pasta.

Crock pot : stock pot

2011-11-02T21:17:00.001-04:00

veggies + water + heat + time

2011-04-03T22:02:00.001-04:00

two foods to bring to a picnic

2011-01-28T11:38:00.001-05:00

was a brave soul, the person who first ate an oyster.

M.Y.O.B.

2010-02-28T01:20:00.002-05:00

In my experience, heavy cream is an ingredient that you can't buy in the exact amount needed for any recipe. Its kind of like how hot dogs come in packs of ten while the buns are sold in packs of eight. A sinister conspiracy to be sure.

So, what to do with that leftover HC other than wait for it to smell funky and pitch it. One day, while Skaggs was spinning the food dharma, he casually mentioned that its really easy to make butter at home. All you need to do is put HC in the bowl of your stand mixer, use the whisk attachment and then let 'er rip until the HC has separated into butter and butter milk. And it literally was that easy.

I usually start the mixer on a low setting and then gradually increase. Not sure that it matters, but it seems like the right thing to do. Its really fun (for me) to watch the cream pass through its various stages, until it starts to slosh around in the bowl, signifying the butter separating from the milk. After that, press it into a bowl or mold, squeezing out any excess milk. I like to put it in the fridge to dry out more before covering. Then bake up some bread and eat that butter.

Diner Off II: Grease stain in the membrane

2010-01-13T10:22:00.003-05:00

Another Tuesday in the Old North Columbus (ONC) kitchen amphitheatre, and we decided to crack the shell on our long-awaited follow-up to the "Diner Off" episode, where we battled Chef Awesome's "Brown-eye Opener" to a draw with the "Broke Yolk." I still crave both dishes, but sadly, don't have any idea how they were made.

So, for posterity and future breakfast needs, we got this one down in bits and bytes. In the red corner -- weighing in at somewhere near a quarter ton -- the challengers: Stursa, Chuck, Kevin and Croke. And in the blue corner -- wielding a wooden, slotted spoon and a chunk of pork side -- the undisputed champion: Skaggs, a.k.a. Chef-at-Large, a.k.a. Chef Awesome.

The battle commenced with both sides making their initial preparations: slicing, dicing, mincing, and shredding. Skaggs tossed thick slices of sweet potato into the oven, while Stursa fought for position on the stove top; flipping and scraping shredded potato in a wok. Brown that hash! After crisping, the potato was spooned into pie plates and smashed into a crust. Skaggs calmly sliced his homemade bacon, looking like a man with all the time in the world.

Into one crust: broccoli florets, four slices of partially cooked bacon, sharp cheddar cheese and a thin layer of hiccup sauce. The remaining empty space was filled with four eggs, mixed with heavy cream and lemon zest. The other crust also received the bacon treatment, along with pineapple to compliment the dairy-free mixture of eggs and coconut milk, and spiced with a little cinnamon and habanero. Now it was time to bake. In 30 to 40 minutes, we would have "Quiche my Hash."

About this time, we were beginning to wonder what Skaggs was doing. So far he had browned his sweet potato, cooked the homemade bacon and concocted an ominous looking sauce. It would be delicious, no doubt, but it didn't look like much. We thought maybe we had gotten the best of Skaggs this time, until he raised the heat the pot of coffee sitting over the back burner. In front of it was the sauce - made from a mystical southwestern spice, bacon fat, flour, a few spoonfuls of coffee, and at least half of a bottle of Tabasco sauce. It would later be described as "coffee-buffalo sauce." The coffee was a rolling boil. "What could this be?" Then Skaggs grabbed a carton of eggs practically out of thin air, and all was clear. He cracked two into a vortex of hot coffee and gently turned the now-poaching eggs before cradling them into their sweet potato cribs. Stacked with bacon and drizzled with sauce, it was perfect. Checkmate!

Our provocatively-named breakfast pie had been topped by...are you ready?..."Rosemary's Babies." Why the name? Was it a tribute to the egg as a universal symbol of life? The importance of sweet potatoes in a pre-natal diet? The deliciousness of bacon? Skaggs wouldn't say, but the sprig of Rosemary he ignited on the burner had something to do with it.

Leftover Turkey Casserole

2009-11-27T15:03:00.002-05:00

Probably everyone in America has day old turkey sitting in their fridge right now, here's what I did with mine.

Chop about 2 cups turkey, 2 carrots, 1 turnip and 1 routabega into bite sized pieces. Saute veggies in olive oil along with shallots until browned and beginning to soften. Combine with turkey and add to casserole dish. Top with a layer of crushed corn tortilla chips.

Cook 2 strips of bacon. In the same pan, over low heat, add 2 T. butter and 3 T. flour, stirring until flour is incorporated. Slowly add 2 c. milk until smooth sauce forms. Add 3 dashes cayenne pepper and juice from 1/2 of a lime, bring to a boil, and simmer for 20 minutes. Pour sauce into dish and toss until evenly mixed.

Top with grated cheese (I used pepper jack) and bake 20 minutes covered and 10 uncovered until cheese is bubbly and brown. Gobble gobble!

Savory Second Act

2009-11-14T10:30:00.000-05:00

sweet, Potato(e)

2009-11-10T22:09:00.001-05:00

Accidental feast!

2009-11-09T13:22:00.001-05:00

2009-11-07T13:44:00.001-05:00

Cook with ALL of your senses

2009-10-20T08:31:00.000-04:00

1. Sight
2. Hearing
3. Taste
4. Smell
5. Touch
6. Balance and acceleration
7. Temperature
8. Kinesthetic sense
9. Pain
10. Other internal senses ie. Echolocation (sonar)

2009-10-17T20:34:00.001-04:00

Fun-Nacho!

Three mind-blowing casseroles - (614) Magazine - Columbus, OH

2009-10-04T14:53:00.001-04:00

Three mind-blowing casseroles - (614) Magazine - Columbus, OH

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2009-09-22T21:08:00.001-04:00

Eat Me, I'm a Turkey!

2009-09-21T22:27:00.001-04:00

ham stock revisited

2009-09-21T22:23:00.001-04:00

2009-09-18T19:43:00.001-04:00

2009-09-07T20:39:00.001-04:00

Deviled egg with bacon on top!

2009-08-21T15:48:00.002-04:00

Made my own bacon.

2009-08-07T14:24:00.001-04:00

Bees make honey. people make, money..?

2009-08-02T11:42:00.001-04:00

Heirloom tomato time is here!

The Meatrix Interactive 360 (TMI360)

2009-07-19T23:07:00.000-04:00

2009-07-11T18:00:00.002-04:00

Ribeye steak & sweet corn

Opinion & Analysis: The case for local food

2009-07-10T17:19:00.002-04:00

"
Meat Wars...

In an article for The Hamilton Spectator, Howard Elliott illuminates the “many and diverse benefits to eating local,” including that “[l]ocally grown food can more easily be raised without chemicals and additives since it doesn’t need to be transported.” The issue of “food-supply security” is also crucial, suggests Elliott, as local food allows “more personal control [over] what we buy and eat.”
"

2009-07-01T08:18:00.002-04:00

Bacon "pasta" & tofu "meatball". ? !

Snack between softball practice and summer afternoon @ the pool.

2009-06-25T12:05:00.001-04:00

Ham&cheez quesadillas, veggies&h2o, a little of your favorite dip.

2009-06-18T11:13:00.001-04:00

glutton or rebel chef?

Eating Together

2009-06-16T22:35:00.002-04:00

Kids need help with food choices

"FIGHTING FOODONS" must see!

2009-06-08T23:31:00.003-04:00

Food with attitude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RIwrb-t7wE&feature=related (first episode)

check out
Taquito, he is a hero.

Health Care Reform: Prevention is Essential

2009-06-03T08:11:00.000-04:00


	"Heart Attack Entrées with Side Orders of Stroke"

Got Garden?

2009-05-29T12:31:00.001-04:00

Out Of Thyme

2009-05-27T01:43:00.001-04:00

OutOfThyme001001
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

2009-05-25T22:21:00.000-04:00

Memorial bratwurst-with best company & mustard.
SKAGGSGGAKS

Seal A Meal

2009-05-23T20:41:00.002-04:00

A Canadian friend, Pascal, sent this to me. I am checking on U.S. import laws.

Nirvana

2009-05-17T12:07:00.000-04:00

Smells like bacon.

Are You Boared?

2009-05-14T12:17:00.002-04:00

Fiddlehead Ferns

2009-05-13T21:19:00.000-04:00

butter & evoo & salt & pepper

Sunnyside

2009-05-13T11:50:00.001-04:00

2009-05-10T15:35:00.001-04:00

whole fried chicken.

2009-05-10T13:21:00.001-04:00

Plow 2 the end of the row.
SKAGGSGGAKS

2009-05-08T11:10:00.001-04:00

Chive & Sage Flowers
SKAGGSGGAKS

'Omg... it tastes like there is eggs in there.?'

2009-05-07T20:38:00.001-04:00

spinach-feta, lorraine, roasted vegetable & cheddar. Big 10 inch Quiches!

Sippel's Pig

2009-05-07T10:46:00.001-04:00

pork belly future...

2009-05-06T09:10:00.005-04:00

Double Decker Taco

Marinated London Broil -
sweet corn-jalapeno-avocado-cilantro-crispy corn tortilla-soft flour tortilla-pepper jack cheese-hot sauce-black beans!

2009-05-02T10:07:00.001-04:00

SKAGGSGGAKS

2009-05-01T14:16:00.000-04:00

sooo good.

2009-05-01T14:12:00.001-04:00

lite lunch.

2009-04-30T12:23:00.000-04:00

rain on baby leaf lettuce. now that is OHIO LATE APRIL.

STAY TUNED!

2009-04-30T10:54:00.001-04:00

Something Is Happening.

Sushi Types

2009-04-30T10:23:00.001-04:00

Nigiri-sushi, slices of fish or other items on pads of rice
Maki-sushi, rolled sushi (including handrolls, temaki)
Chirashi-sushi, fish and other items served on top of a bowl of vinegared sushi rice
Oshi-sushi, squares or rectangles of pressed rice topped with vinegared or cooked fish, made in a wooden mold

Stuffed sushi, including chakin-zushi or fukusa-sushi, ingredients wrapped in a thin egg crêpe; and inari-sushi, with ingredients stuffed into a small pouch of fried bean curd (tofu)
Sashimi is sliced fish that is served with a bowl of regular boiled rice on the side

2009-04-27T08:05:00.000-04:00

Lobster fight club.

Deer, Chicken, Corn and poblano pepper

2009-04-23T21:34:00.001-04:00

Deer, Chicken, and Corn
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

Marinade:
garlic
shallot
jalapeno
lemon juice
lemon zest
orange juice
orange zest
salt
pepper
gin
vermouth
juniper berries

soaked chicken breasts and venison tender loin in marinade

venison burgers:
ground deer
jalapeno
garlic
shallot
salt
pepper

corn:
um... nothing... it's corn.

poblano:
charred the skin

cook on grill

FWD:

2009-04-22T12:30:00.001-04:00

2009-04-22T11:36:00.001-04:00

I will now blog from my phone...
SKAGGSGGAKS

Don't eat the eyes, brain, spinal cord, spleen, tonsils, or lymph nodes of any deer. (...in this economy?!)

2009-04-21T18:50:00.002-04:00

Leftovers and Eggs for breakfast

2009-04-19T10:38:00.006-04:00

3/4 red onion, chopped

Caramelize, then add:

Cucumber and Tomato, sliced
Cook til tender, top with:
Roasted Potatoes and Turnips w/green peppers, onions, and garlic
Warm, for cohesion:
4 2 Silos, farm fresh eggs
Whisk, then add a dash of:
Dill and Red Pepper Powder
Cook on stove top then in 350 degree oven until eggs don't jiggle when shaken.

Hot Pepper Tofu with Potato Carrot Crisps

2009-04-12T04:44:00.002-04:00

Hot Pepper Tofu with Potato Carrot Crisps
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

Enormous blocks of tofu, fried in the wok with some onions and a habanero. Mango. Jalapenos.
Potato and carrot, shredded with jalapeno, parsley, mango, garlic, and some other stuff.
Amazing sauce: hiccup sauce (Thai hot sauce), Worcestershire, taco sauce.

His Hands Are Bananas

2009-04-08T22:40:00.002-04:00

Wild Boar Bacon & A Very Fresh Egg

2009-04-07T23:07:00.001-04:00

Another Bubble To Burst.

2009-04-05T21:45:00.004-04:00

Since 1990, number of restaurants and bars increased in the U.S. to 537,000 from 361,000 a 49% increase, Population of United States grew 23% in that period???

Pork Needs Our Help.

2009-03-28T09:03:00.006-04:00

OLIVE OIL
GROUND PORK
PORK SHOULDER
DRIED CHILE:
ANAHEIM, JALAPENO, DEL AMARILLO
CORIANDER
CUMIN
BLACK PEPPER
SEA SALT
RAW SUGAR

YELLOW ONION
CARROT
ROASTED POTATOES
SWEET CORN
BEANS
LIME

Compost Happens.

2009-03-25T09:20:00.001-04:00

Burgertime!

2009-03-20T20:50:00.000-04:00

I Am Awake. Vernal Eve Haiku.

2009-03-19T21:59:00.005-04:00

A Blend Of Black Teas.
Tomorrow is spring, day one.
Excited to plant!

The Thyme Has Come; Lettuce Rejoice!

2009-03-19T21:51:00.000-04:00

Teach Kids To Cook

2009-03-17T13:09:00.001-04:00

ICE CREAM? No WHEY!

2009-03-16T07:22:00.003-04:00

BEWARE. Lurking in the ice cream isle of your supermarket in the same containers as the REAL ice cream is "FROZEN DAIRY DESSERT".- Nowhere on the carton does it have the words ICE CREAM..? Whey is the first ingredient, followed by skim milk and then sugar. Whey is a by-product (leftover) from the cheese making process. It is fit for human consumption, however, it is mostly fed to livestock (cows &pigs&chickens).

Babies. It's Whats For Dinner?

2009-03-15T15:34:00.004-04:00

Cooking With John does not condone these actions. Just reporting the facts...

Two Perennial Vegetables Indigenous to Ohio

2009-03-13T07:12:00.006-04:00

Perennial-a plant living for more than two years.
Indigenous-native.

Don't get Ill, while you grill

2009-03-12T11:49:00.005-04:00

In preparation for the grilling season, here's a little food safety advice courtesy of the USDA. I wonder if they sell stuffed animals?

10 Days til Spring

2009-03-11T09:23:00.002-04:00

Spring fever
Originally uploaded by Film Fan 4

Steak and Potatoes

2009-03-09T22:46:00.003-04:00

steak pic
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

Marinated and baked steak with fried potato Latke and kumquat chutney.

Bottom round marinated in:
Soy
zested ginger
garlic
assorted hot peppers
for twenty-four hours.

Latkes
Shredded potato
garlic
jalapeno
salt
pepper
cumin
cayenne
fried in olive oil

Kumquat Chutney
40 kumquats chopped and de-seeded
sugar
apple cider vinegar
coriander

Rock out with your stock out.

2009-03-07T13:54:00.007-05:00

There's always room for turkey jello mold.
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

One from the vault. Just as we were coming out of the Thanksgiving side dish haze, we recycled some of the leftovers to make stock. A combination of the leftover turkey bones, a mire poix, and spices -- sauteed in turkey fat. As an added bonus, Croke describes a recent brush with the law.

FAT

2009-03-05T13:22:00.001-05:00

Name That Garden.

2009-03-03T21:27:00.004-05:00

Victory gardens, war gardens or food gardens for defense..?

"Victory and defeat are of the same price."
Thomas Jefferson

“I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.”
Sam Houston

“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I vote for a UNITY GARDEN.

U.S.D.A. Livestock Projections

2009-03-01T09:24:00.006-05:00

We are consuming more meat but paying less as a percentage of our income. Know where your meat comes from?

LABELING CATEGORIES

The law expressly establishes four general categories of meat products.

Product of the United States - A covered commodity is eligible for designation as "Product of U.S." only if it is derived "exclusively from an animal that is exclusively born, raised and slaughtered in the United States."

Multiple countries of origin - A product is deemed to have multiple countries of origin if the animal from which it was derived was born and/or raised in a different country or countries and then slaughtered in the U.S. Covered commodities in this category would have to identify all the relevant countries.

Animals imported for immediate slaughter - Covered commodities from animals raised in another country but slaughtered in the U.S. would fall into this category.

Imported finished products to be sold at retail - Meat products imported from another country would be labeled as a product of that country.

The statute also has special provisions for ground products such as ground beef or ground pork. Specifically, the law allows ground products to declare on labels the countries of origin from which the product inputs came or, in the alternative, the label may declare the countries �that may be reasonably contained therein.� Thus, the regulation allows a ground beef label, for example, to list the countries that are or may be the sources of the ground beef inputs, so long as the processor has had in inventory an input from that country in the previous 60 days.

Meet Your Meat

2009-03-01T09:10:00.003-05:00

in 1960 we, in the U.S., ate about 28 pounds of chicken per person per year. Today we eat over 90 pounds.

Sugar Consumption In The U.S. 26 Pounds To 135 Lbs. Of Sugar Per Person Per Year!

2009-03-01T08:50:00.005-05:00

Could higher taxes on foods with high sugar content help get our economy back on track at the same time reducing the obesity scourge???

Cooking With Jolene...?

2009-02-14T22:41:00.001-05:00

The major players in the food aid game

2009-02-04T15:14:00.001-05:00

"We must refute the false idea of reality that accepts as inevitable what is in fact a result
of present politics; in other words, of organized chaos.
Each and every one of us must support measures to save the living.
If only people are told what is happening, then the world's dark future, which now
seems to threaten everyone in it, may be changed.
But only if we take action.
Now is the time to act, now is the time to create, now is the time for us to live in a way
that will give life to others.”

– The Manifesto Against Hunger, 1981

Trillionaire

2009-02-04T14:40:00.007-05:00

How Many People Can We Feed With A $1,000,000,000,000?

Bakin' bread with Bacon

2009-02-01T22:12:00.008-05:00

Recorded Summer of '08, our first podcast features an unorthodox take on the classic summer sandwich, the BLT. Nothing like crisp bacon stacked on toasted bread with some fresh-picked lettuce and tomatoes. That is, unless you happen to have a round of bacon rye bread in the house. This episode features a special guest: Founder of and chief baker at Le Petit Boulangerie, Daniel Reisenbach.

Salmagundi

2009-02-01T10:29:00.002-05:00

Excerpt from The Seafarers: The Pirates
by Douglas Botting & the Editors of Time-Life Books

"A cook might include as the basis of his salmagundi any or all of the following: turtle meat, fish, pork, chicken, corned beef, ham, duck and pigeon. The meats would be roasted, chopped into chunks and marinated in spiced wine, then combined with cabbage, anchovies, pickled herring, mangoes, hard-boiled eggs, palm hearts, onions, olives, grapes and any other pickled vegetables that were available. The whole would then be highly seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper and mustard seed and doused with oil and vinegar - and served with drafts of beer and rum."

Me and Mimes

2009-01-30T01:35:00.002-05:00

me-and-mimes-001-001-001
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

Chickens And Eggs

2009-01-28T16:10:00.008-05:00

Which was first?

One idea:

First, we eat the chickens.

Then, we ate it's eggs.

Be Careful Out There.

2009-01-25T13:37:00.001-05:00

Pyramid Scheme

2009-01-23T17:09:00.007-05:00

2009-01-21T21:53:00.001-05:00

BUY WISELY. COOK CAREFULLY. EAT IT ALL.

Happy Birthday Ben Franklin, thanks for the stove

2009-01-17T17:12:00.004-05:00

1706 Benjamin Franklin was born. American diplomat, publisher, inventor, etc. Among his inventions were the Franklin stove and bifocal eyeglasses. He also published 'Poor Richard's Almanac.'

Quotes:

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Well done is better than well said.

Fish and visitors smell in three days.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I heard he liked to hang out in coffee shops.?

check it out: http://www.foodreference.com/

Fruit Pizza.

2009-01-12T14:13:00.004-05:00

sugar cookie crust,
whipped cream cheese,
powdered sugar,
raspberries,
blueberries,
(not canned) clementines!

*I had this for breakfast today and I wish that I had some more right now. It was crafted by co-worker A. W. Ala 6th grade home economics class style. Deliciousness.

Just Cook It.

2009-01-09T11:42:00.001-05:00

We do not need more recipes or cookbooks; We need more cooks.

Presidents' Food Preferences

2009-01-07T22:38:00.002-05:00

Jimmy Carter of course likes peanuts; he also likes cornbread and even named his dog “Grits”. George H. W. Bush likes hot sauce on just about everything and we all know he deplores broccoli. Bill Clinton likes his hamburgers with onion rings. George W. Bush likes the Tex-Mex foods, peanut butter and honey sandwiches on toasted raisin bread and not many green vegetables. Barack Obama likes chili and is reported to go for local, seasonal, and organic foods.

Real Hamburger

2009-01-06T23:20:00.001-05:00

Real Hamburger
Originally uploaded by BganFilms

The Ham In Hamburger, Call it, pig burger.

shredded mushrooms,
celery,
onion,
carrot,
& garlic
ground fennel seed,
cumin seed,
mustard seed,
black peppercorn,
& sea salt
zest of grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange and clementine
a shot of Bavarian beer

cooked in its own juices. yeah pork fat!

Feathered Friends

2008-12-31T21:12:00.001-05:00

Hello 2009.

2008-12-31T08:52:00.013-05:00

...for those who need food to survive:

"
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Thoreau, Henry David

___________________

I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

Washington, George

___________________

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

___________________

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

Kennedy, John F.

___________________

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Franklin, Benjamin

________________

Bork, bork, bork!

Muppet, Chef

2008-12-29T15:19:00.008-05:00

Rabbit Season.

dog meats (pun is definetly intended) genetically engineered rabbit-chicken hybrid.

grades for meat in these United States of America...

Let's eat.

Wine Party stuffing

2008-12-29T09:43:00.010-05:00

Why do I buy eggs straight from the farmer? So they invite me to their annual wine party, of course. This year, I decided to bring one of my favorite holiday-time dishes: sour dough stuffing with sausage, pears and tarragon.

I started by browning the sausage in a big skillet.

Then cooked my mirepoix in the sausage drippings.

Then added diced pears and tarragon to the mirepoix.

And lastly threw everything (cubed bread, stock, above mentioned ingredients) into a casserole dish which then got thrown into the oven (20 minutes covered, 15 uncovered).

2008-12-26T23:36:00.004-05:00

Heat changes things. High heat changes things fast; Low heat changes things slow. Remember to stay in control of the heat.

I like fire. Respect.

My favorite low heat things: braising meat or poaching fish or vegetables

My favorite high heat things: searing a beef ribeye or tuna steak or charring peppers

2008-12-26T08:21:00.003-05:00

BLACK-EYED PEAS, the movie.

i will cook these peas with:

ham stock
ham bone
bay leaf

i will eat these peas with:

jalapeno corn bread

GOOD LUCK WITH THE NEW YEAR!