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Tag Archives: cooking
What To Do With Your New Kitchen Toys
I mentioned to the folks on Twitter and our Facebook page this week that my brother Paul made me a cold smoker for Christmas, which I’m pretty excited about. It’s the same kind of rig that he put together last … Continue reading
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Things We Might Try in the Near Future 6-24-11
The Paupered Chef’s Homemade Ginger Beer for Dark-n-Stormys. We’ve taken their brewing advice before, and are happy to try this one out soon. Anything from Suvir Saran’s great cookbook American Masala. At home in recent weeks my wife has been … Continue reading
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On the end of “Good Eats”
There are many reasons why I love Alton Brown. I love the geeky humor, hand puppets, corny dialogue, anatomical charts, hardware reviews, molecular models, and at the heart of it all, the explanations on why things work the way that they … Continue reading
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Zingerman’s Guide to Better Bacon
I was out in Ann Arbor in October for a good friend’s wedding, and with all of the weekend’s events, we actually didn’t make it to Zingerman’s Deli. We tried. I know, I know, not hard enough. I’ve been before, … Continue reading
Another Home Cooking/Curing/Smoking Blog
So here we go. We’re definitely not the only ones to be influenced by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn’s Charcuterie. A quick Google search for brined, smoked, brewed, and cured foods shows that there are a bunch of folks doing this stuff … Continue reading
Smoke Cure Pickle Brew 