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…
Green Tomato Pie
Here in Arkansas, the growing season runs long, very long, right up to winter. My tomato plants had stopped growing in the heat of the summer, but came back with a vigor come fall. I was looking forward to salads and sauces with nice ripe, red tomatoes. But then the cold snap came. When I…
Payne’s Bar-B-Que in Memphis, TN
Payne’s Bar-B-Que in Memphis, Tennessee is a family owned and family run place, and has been for at least the last 40 years. It’s the kind of place where you come to enjoy the easy chat with the owners, but where you return for the fabulous $5.50 jumbo chopped pork barbecue sandwich. You can toss in a soda…
How to Smoke Your Own Chipotle Peppers
Chipotle peppers are smoked jalapeño peppers. I love them for their smoky and gentle-but-sweet heat. I use them in adobo sauce when cooking Mexican food and I use them ground up in my Standard BBQ Rub, which I use on ribs, pork and chicken. Chipotle pepper powder is great in flavoring homemade salsa, too. I take a…
Hickory Smoked Tofu with Sautéed Baby Spinach
Mrs. WooPigFoodie is a vegetarian, so that means I am “mostly” vegetarian. But I love my smoker and my grill for my non-vegetarian meals (like making real barbecue ribs). Over time, I have learned how to make really tasty and flavorful vegetarian meals on my grill, including my Grilled Veggies and my Oaxacan Grilled Corn….
David’s Burgers in Little Rock, AR
Pleased to Meet You and Meat to Please You! From the hand-packed burgers ground from fresh steaks, to the abundant hot fresh fries served while you wait, David’s Burgers just might be the very best burger place in Little Rock. Maybe even the whole state. Maybe even the Universe.
