Archive for the 'Main Course' Category

Sweet and Tangy

It was commented by Seriouswriter (a contributor here), sometime ago, that I should try coating a ham with a 50/50 mixture of brown sugar and mustard. Being distracted by all life has had to offer, it has taken all this time to give it try.
Last night we had some family over for dinner and […]

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

What makes good sausage?

For most people, getting good sausage is as easy as going to the local store and grabbing a package of bulk sausage.
Some people like to make their own or are curious what it takes to make tasty sausage. So here we go, a short tutorial on this breakfast treat.
First you need trim with enough […]

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I Like Mine in Brine!

I’ve gone on and on about the different ways to smoke meat. Finally, I am going to have to pick one and write about it.
So here we go.
First of all, I am most familiar with using a brine to cure and flavor the meat. In a bit of research about what is out […]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Pain in the Neck

Maybe you are expecting me to be writing a complaint or rant or something with the “wacky” title. Nope, it’s a recipe. No really!
Neck roast.
This recipe applies for any of the odd (cheaper or tougher) cuts from the Chuck (that is the front quarter on Beef or Venison). For my […]

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Chicken of Deceptive Elegance

Hi, everyone. I’m new here, but I promise not to poison you. I love to cook (or so my 800 cookbooks tell me — at least, they did before I sold about 200 of them off. 800 is ridiculous. 600, somehow, is sane. Never mind.) but I don’t always have the sort of time required […]

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Ham does not equal ham.

In a recent poll of sane people reading the title of this article the most common response was, “Huh”.
I am normally sane and I do not usually mix math, philosophy, and cooking in my titles, but it somehow seemed right.
For Thanksgiving we had turkey of course, but we also had ham. As I have mentioned […]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Tools of the Trade Part Two of Three

As we continue looking at some spices I use in my cooking, and the companies behind them, I am taken back to my time in the Meat Department. Quite a bit of what I learned about meat comes from that time, including my experience with Vecchi’s Seasonings.
We used spices from several different companies in […]

Thursday, November 15th, 2007