We’ve always enjoyed the good tasting homey feeling of a good Shepards pie. Often it can be found on pub menus where it pairs nicely with a tall pint of your favorite beer. Today I decided I’d try and make it at home. Here’s my go at it in photos below. It turned out pretty…
Category: Recipes
Merry Christmas Everyone!
Today we are cooking the traditional Christmas turkey dinner with all the fixings. It’s one of our most favorite meals of all time. We start off prepping a few side dishes consisting of mashed potatoes, sweet yams, glazed carrots, and a homemade sausage stuffing. Now it’s time to work on the turkey. After a long…
Chicken Soup For The Soul
Grandma always said, “Chicken soup is good for you!” When it starts to get colder and the weather is dreary and dark, it makes for a nice setting to make a large batch of chicken broth.Cooking up a batch of broth always warms the entire house with a very nice aroma that lasts all day long…
Cooking with Spices
Spices for taste Spices are what make our food preparations better tasting – the mixtures and results are the science of culinary art. There are so many flavors, hot, sweet, salty and more. The mixtures and concoctions of spice blends are endless. Wikipedia has a great description of spices: A spice is a dried seed, fruit,root, bark, leaf, or vegetative substance used…
Smoking Salmon
The BBQ Domain I’ve been into BBQ’ing since I learned to play with matches and roasted my first hot dog over an open flame on my moms bbq in our backyard. I still remember that day, I burned the hot dog to a crisp, but I liked the crunchiness, it tasted good. What did I…
The Golden Cadillac Drink, created at Poor Red’s
Poor Red’s, Home of The Golden Cadillac After a fun day of riding my motorcycle in the local hills with my wife, we like to stop by a small historic western tavern in the town of El Dorado called Poor Red’s where we enjoy a nice cold drink after a day out riding in the…
