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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vitals: recipe: Prime Rib Holiday Dinner difficulty: Easy. Seems intimidating but the technique is nearly fool proof with the right equipment. health rating: indulgent. It’s the Holidays after all. time: Prime Rib: 4 hours including cooking time and prep. the roast has to be seasoned the night before. Mashed Potatoes: 30 min. Creamed Spinach: 30 minutes Cooking turkey is a big fat pain. There I said it. And this is coming from a guy who literally did a Thanksgiving ...

The Vitals: recipe: Instant Pot Lamb Dum Biriyani  difficulty: medium – lots of spices/ingredients, a fair amount of prep if you’re not used to making Indian food on the daily health rating: indulgent. If you do this right with fatty lamb, whole milk yogurt and white basmati rice, you hit a cheat meal 4 sho  time: Instant Pot time 6 minutes + natural pressure release. 30 minimum minute marinade time. 1 hour prep.  Much to my chagrin, the wifey scored ...

The Vitals: recipe: Chicken Báhn Mì (Vietnamese style sandwich) difficulty: easy health rating: healthy – but watch the calorie count on the bread you use.  time: 30 minutes + 4 hour marinade time(can marinate up to 24 hours) I literally made this last night two nights ago and it was so good(and easy) I just had to sit right down and share the recipe. All you really need to do is get the chicken in the marinade and make sure ...