I just got back from a week in southern Kaua’i. Like all vacations, the time was too short, and now I want to move there. A week living amongst people who stab away their days in the slow, tropical pulse of the south pacific rim makes me wonder how and why I managed to find [...]
Category Archives: Grilling
Poke, Musubi & the Committee for Safety
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Tasty 15 Minute Marinade for Chicken
Made this last night and it worked to make a hunk of protein have flavor. The swiss and chedder cheese and the strip of bacon I put on top helped too, but, in a pinch, this gave my chicken breast some flavor before putting it on the grill. I fried some brioche in lard on [...]
Veal Tongue Tacos
It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been living a life. Or burning one down. Or stumbling on the head of those two opposing excuses, really. This is the 4th year I won’t be going to Burning Man. It’s crazy, I’ve been not going almost half as many years as I attended. And what’s crazier, [...]
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The Season of the Goat: Farm to Table Goat & The Joy of Open Pit, Whole Beast BBQ
Earlier this season I put a fire pit in my back yard. Actually, that was the first thing I put in my backyard. A firepit, surrounded by dirt on all sides. Eventually we got around to putting in some grass and some stone work to gussy it up a bit, but the first effort was [...]
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Render Me Some Lard, Bubba!
I got this goofy new puppy the other day and everything I’m reading insists that she’s gonna love some bacon and cottage cheese in her food. Clearly a girl after my own heart. I had a good amount of back fat just sitting pretty in my freezer so I thought I’d render my fluffy lady [...]
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Great Vienna Sausage Recipe
I’ve been experimenting with a bunch of different sausages. My favorite as of late are these Vienna sausages. Tender and plenty juicy and flavorful, when you put these on the grill and crisp up the natural casings they have that mandatory snap that you want in any good sausage, especially a Vienna. Here’s the recipe: [...]
U.S. Meat Contaminated with Resistant Bacteria
In more, isn’t the world sick of being a bummer all the time news: Meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday. Nearly half of all meat and poultry sampled in a new study contained drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the type of bacteria that most commonly [...]
Veal Kielbasa Recipe
Here’s a recipe for fresh Kielbasa that is delicious. You can also turn it into smoked Kielbasa by smoking it at around 180* for about 2 hours and then cool in ice water for 30 minutes, dry and store in the fridge. 6′ hog casing 3lbs pork butt 1lb beef chuck 1lb veal shoulder 3/4lb [...]
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Hit a Local Chicago Butcher and Let The Grilling Begin
As I walked out of work last Wednesday I felt something that I wasn’t sure I would ever feel again, something so entirely foreign and pleasant I was certain I was hallucinating. It was warmth. Where I would usually rush manically, head down and cursing, to my car. I now crossed in a slow walk, [...]
Also posted in Instructional, Review, Smoking Tagged Abdullah the Butcher, BBQ, Butcher and Larder, Butchers, Chicago Game and Gourmet, Chicago Magazine, Meat, Summer, Time out Chicago Leave a comment