Beefy, smoky, peppery and a little bit charry, smoked beef brisket is a delicious thing. It can also be one of the most difficult BBQ dishes to perform correctly—to end up with a juicy and succulent brisket instead of a tough and chewy one. Because it requires good technique to make a good brisket, I often use…
Homemade Garlic Dill Pickles
I love pickles of all types. I grew up on those kosher dill pickles that they sell in the refrigerator section of the grocery store. It was only recently that I realized that pickles are So Easy To Make. So easy, that it didn’t make any sense to buy store pickles, since I could make better…
Pulled Pork Tacos
Tacos are a great family dish. It takes almost no time to get all the parts ready, and then everyone can build just what they like. The kids really clean their plates come taco night. We make all types of crunchy and soft tacos, with beef, chicken, and even vegetarian ones made from black beans,…
The Ultimate Pulled Pork
Pulled pork is a real treat. There’s nothing better than juicy, smoky strands of pork, covered with a nice dark bark that still has the sweet hints of your own special BBQ rub. And there’s nothing better than making it yourself. We make this several times each summer. I promise you, there’s nothing complicated about this recipe, but it does…
Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Sweet ‘n Heat Coleslaw
This is one of our favorite ways to eat The Ultimate Pulled Pork. The combination of the smoky barbecue, your favorite barbecue sauce and Sweet ‘n Heat Coleslaw is just about perfect. Here’s how we do this. (The recipe follows at the end.) Once you have the pork smoked, you just pull it as discussed in…
Oaxacan “Street-Style” Grilled Corn
Oaxacan “street-style” grilled corn is addicting. No matter how much we make, we literally never make enough. With its salty Cotija cheese, cool sour cream, tangy fresh squeezed lime juice, chopped cilantro and Mexican-flavored spices (I use Penzey’s Arizona Dreaming) slathered over smoky char grilled corn, this recipe is a sure hit. And it’s fantastically easy….
Quick Cook: Grilled Teriyaki Pork Skewers
This is one of my favorite recipes ever. It combines my frugal side by using up leftover trimmings from my ribs or inexpensive cuts of pork from the market, with my “check out this awesome grilling recipe” side, and results in a terrifically flavorful, soy sauce-and-honey charred dinner that everyone will love. It is fast…
How to Make Homemade Sausage
I recently took a great sausage making class over at my local butcher shop, Butcher & Public. The class was great for so many reasons. First, because it gave me up close and personal face time with a really good sausage maker, so I could ask a million questions and really learn the “ins and…
The Very Best Eggplant Parmesan, Ever. (This is also great with veal or chicken!)
There’s a really famous Italian restaurant in New York City called Rao’s. They have been there for over 100 years, and only have 12 tables. It’s very, very hard to get a reservation because the families that have reservations have them each week, and pass them down to their kin. So I’ve never eaten there….
Baba Ghanoush (Cooking the Book: Jerusalem)
As you may know, Mrs. WooPigFoodie is a vegetarian. At the holidays each year, I buy her a cookbook or two that looks like it might have good vegetarian recipes, and have her pick a bunch of recipes for me to make for her. (True love.) This year, I picked up Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi…
Quick and Easy Blueberry Lemon Pie
This pie was embarrassingly quick and easy to make, but it ended up with the most views on my Instagram page, so I had to put up the recipe. Take one refrigerated pie shell and place in the bottom of a pie tin. Add two cans of blueberry pie filling, plus the zest and juice…
Red Tomato Pie with Creamy Goat Cheese and Basil
I consider holiday season appetizer season. And that’s really my favorite season of all. So as the holidays come upon us, it’s time for reaching into our appetizer memory books to find delicious things to bring with us on our visits to family and friends. This is a little something I whipped up recently as a…