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Leftovers hacks: Warm Lentil Salad

Barbecue
May 6, 2020

Leftovers hacks: Warm Lentil Salad

Barbecue
May 6, 2020
Warm Lentil Salad: a BBQ leftovers recipe hack  My favorite part about the Austin barbecue experience is over ordering. When you order meats by the pound, a quarter pound sounds kinda minuscule right? And a pound of brisket per person is clearly reasonable. It is that kind of thinking that brings butcher wrapped leftovers to my fridge. Don’t weep too hard for me. Now one can easily reheat that barbecue in a cast iron skillet or low and slow in ...
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This Big Mac Slider has a name: Tater Mac

Burgers
April 28, 2020
Tater Mac: a Big Mac Slider Big Mac Slider could have been the best google search I could have done lately, second only to my search for Big Mac Sauce. If you have been keeping up my recent wave of recipes; you may have caught my previous slider recipe: White Castle in your own Castle. Well now it’s time to take on a Big Mac Slider. Meet Tater Mac: my take on a Big Mac Slider.
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Easy Dal Recipe

Indian
April 21, 2020

Easy Dal Recipe

Indian
April 21, 2020
An Easy Dal Recipe This easy dal recipe post has been a long time coming. Dal is the comfort food of my people. Growing up in a Bengali household in the Midwest in the 1980s, “Indian food” was seldom something we would go out for. It was the food we ate at home on weeknights and on weekends at friend’s homes. It was a cuisine I took for granted until I went off to college and found myself 2000 miles ...
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Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

Recipe
April 16, 2020

Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder

Recipe
April 16, 2020
Slow Roasted Pork Shoulder Easter rolled around and rather than have a barbecue because of this once in a lifetime global pandemic called Corona, I decided to make a slow roasted pork shoulder and let my oven do most of the work. For me, holidays mean a hearty roast dinner and if I can prepare the sides at once, or at least in the drippings of the roast . . . I am a happy camper, COVID-19 be damned. If ...
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Leftover Roast Chicken Soup

Recipe
April 7, 2020

Leftover Roast Chicken Soup

Recipe
April 7, 2020
Leftover Roast Chicken Soup Leftover Roast Chicken soup is exactly that: an act of leftovers. Nobody heads into the weekends bragging about the soup they are gonna make but it’s the smart play to make when you want to turn one dinner into two, or three or four. Soup tastes better the next day, you can freeze it and its one dish that is simply better made at home than anywhere else. If you made the simple roast chicken recipe ...
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Recipe: Simple Roast Chicken

Recipe
April 1, 2020

Recipe: Simple Roast Chicken

Recipe
April 1, 2020
Simple Roast Chicken  I have been roasting whole chickens for over a decade now. At one point I was into a Jamie Oliver recipe where you made a prosciutto herb butter and stuffed it under the skin. That was pretty darn good but a bit time consuming and frankly not any better than a simple roast chicken. I’m going to show you a very basic recipe that hones in on the essential elements of a perfect roast chicken dinner: juicy ...
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Recipe: Coffee Rub Steak

Recipe
March 24, 2020

Recipe: Coffee Rub Steak

Recipe
March 24, 2020
Coffee Rub Steak  This isn’t the first time I have made a coffee rub steak on the grill. But in the age of the Coronapocalypse, my grilling has kicked into overdrive. The age of #selfquarantine has also got me looking at a big fat shelf of cookbooks I have collected over the years that I just don’t crack open often enough. Well that is all about to change. I’m starting a new chapter of Bang for your Burger Buck: Cook ...
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Slider Recipe: White Castle in your own Castle

Burgers
March 17, 2020
a Slider Recipe A slider recipe. Really? Yeah, it seems so simple you don’t even need one but consider these two fundamental burger realities: Everybody loves the sound of making burgers on the grill but they don’t always come out primetime. Everybody loves the sound of sliders but lots of restaurants serve up overpriced lil’ burgers and let’s be real: White Castle is awesome in idea, less so in reality. Unless you are hammered. Which brings me to an enchanted ...
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Old Forester tasting menu at Provision Austin

Fine Dining
March 12, 2020
The Vitals: the spot: Provision 4200 B W. Braker Lane Austin TX 78759 the eats: A special tasting menu paired with Old Forester Bourbon the bucks: $0 – sorry kids, perks of the life. This was a complimentary dinner. Typical avg entree price is $30 at the restaurant the full nelson: a lesson that when you drink heavy hitting bourbon, you deserve heavy hitting proteins Recently I had the pleasure of attending a bourbon tasting menu prepared at a new ...
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Taco Bronco ~ Austin TX

Austin
March 4, 2020

Taco Bronco ~ Austin TX

Austin
March 4, 2020
Austin isn’t exactly a two horse town when it comes to food. Sure, there are plenty of farm to table special occasion meals, some ridiculously good burgers, and some of the best soup dumplings I have ever had but if you came here and just stuck to barbecue and tacos, you would cover a lot of delicious ground. So imagine then what happens if tacos and barbecue get into a tussle? When the dust settles, what emerges is a hand ...
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