Category: Cooking

Clean Equals Tasty

Football is back!  Tomorrow is opening-day for most football fans.  Time to put those summer, baseball tailgates to shame.  But before you break out the grills for another NFL tailgate season here’s a tip for you…season your grill.  And do it today, not on game day ( it’s what I am doing today )! Below is how our group goes about prepping the grill for the upcoming NFL season.  Our grill is a gas grill, but the below should also work for a charcoal grill. 1 – This part sucks but it’s a mus Read more →

Don’t Forget About Flank Steak

So I’m back, I am alive, and I still eat a steak every night after I cook about 50 to 100 for my steakhouse customers…and guess what I wanna talk about, steak…OMG! In particular I want to address flank steak , which although quite similar, should never be confused with skirt steak .  Flank is a relatively inexpensive, thin, trapezoidal shaped, lean, very specifically grained steak. Flank does not cut into typical American portions very well due to its shape, and for this reason flank is Read more →

Check out Atkins’ new food line and enter their recipe contest

Since school started (I teach), and my edits were due on my book (I write), my meals have been: popcorn, fudge bar, cereal, popcorn, peanut butter and jelly sandwich. . .Healthy? Not so much. And my children are all out of the house, so I’m not chasing kids around and pacing the soccer sidelines.  And if dozing off during the evening news counts toward my beauty sleep, I should be eye-shattering stunning by now. So, what’s a mom to do? Atkins has come to our rescue with their Cuisin Read more →

Home-Jarred Roasted Red Peppers

So much to cook… so little time. September is a busy time of year! While the farmers have slowed down their planting for the first time since maybe March, we’re stuck with everything they’ve thrown at us — and peppers are coming out of my ears. “Oh, I’m just going to roast them,” I told a friend, who laughed at the leftover pepperage after the Hapa Kitchen Luau. (Admittedly, I’d bought too many peppers from Garden of Eve; fifteen pounds doesn’t sound like a lot of neat and dense veggies like oni Read more →

How Hot and How Long to Cook a Steak?

For a lot of people, breaking out the grill means making that perfect steak. All kinds of food are excellent on the grill, but nothing is quite the same as a hot, juicy steak. However, learning how to make your steak come out great can be an uphill battle. There are all kinds of people out there saying they have got the best method. How do you choose? Let us take a look at the best temperature and methods for cooking a steak. Step one is remembering that you do not start with cooking. You star Read more →

Irish Pot-Roasted Chicken Recipe

This is a perfect meal to gather around the family and enjoy. Rate this recipe and see reviews here! Ingredients Chicken, about 4.5 lb. 4 oz. oatmeal Medium onion, chopped 2 Tbs. Butter 3 Tbs. Stock Salt and pepper 6 oz. Bacon 3 medium onions, sliced 2 lb. potatoes Seasoned flour 3 Tbs. Dripping or oil 4 medium carrots, sliced Directions If there are giblets with the bird, take them out, wash all but the liver (reserve that for another use), and cover with water, add salt Read more →