So back to that Texas brisket jag again. Came up with another use for leftover brisket. Into these beans went chopped up bits of salty, peppery, smoky, crusty, beefy brisket with its thin silky fat cap and it beat the pants off same-old ham hock, good as that is. Talk about the ethanol of ingredients. [...]
Brisket Butter and Green Beans
July 17, 2010
July 7, 2010
Tossed steakhouse–everything in one bowl. The ultimate one-dish meal for leftover steak. Cube the steak into bite-size pieces for easy eating.
June 22, 2010
We’ve been obsessed with smoking brisket since returning from a recent barbecue tour through the Hill Country around Austin, Texas. We’ll write about our home Texas barbecue shenanigans later (it’s a long, happy story). For now, here’s one important thing we didn’t expect to learn. Lardo, Texas style. Sure, we enjoyed plenty of the brisket [...]
May 20, 2010
It’s easier to get in the flow of creative work when you have the right tools and plenty of stuff to play around with. Think of the florist whose creativity is made possible by all the greenery, vases, and flowers within reach. Cooking is the same way. A well-stocked pantry and fridge full of leftovers [...]
March 27, 2010
Finally a noted food journalist, Regina Schrambling, whose byline we’ve read everywhere from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and in all kinds of food magazines, has come clean on her love of liquid smoke in this recent story about oven beef brisket. She even goes as far as calling liquid smoke [...]
September 15, 2009
I loved the story in Sunday’s New York Times In Texas, Seeing the West as It Was by Jim Atkinson about Guadalupe Mountains National Park. As a kid, we drove from El Paso through the desert and by the magnificent El Capitan (we called it Signal Peak) a million times on our way to my [...]
September 1, 2009
Another banging Cheater BBQ party! This time the occasion was a happy send off for Min’s niece as she begins her freshman year at Oberlin College. In line with family tradition, we laid down a whopping Cheater Tex-Mex feast. We had plenty of time to cook up all the sides since the cheater brisket was [...]
May 24, 2009
Get your Dad or any Caring Adult that’s made difference in your life a copy of Cheater BBQ for Father’s Day. It’s cheap, fun to read, and extremely useful. No more ties, please, please. Cheat and have more fun with the kids! There’s plenty of time for a spin through Leiper’s Fork. You’ll be back [...]
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