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
June 4, 2010
R.B. is well-known for overdoing everything the hard way. Gives him some sort of bone-weary sick pleasure. He’s all about his own aches and pains index. If he’s not sore the next morning, yesterday was a bust. Must be why he so enjoys hauling and chopping wood, tending a smoker all night… So why would [...]
June 11, 2009
You walk up to the fish counter at the Charlestown (RI) Mini Super and you know you’re gonna see something you can’t leave without. The Ninigret Pond oysters today were gnarly and gorgeous, but without my Economy Dish Min to handle shucking and the mignonette, not so much fun. I can’t eat oysters without her [...]
June 4, 2009
My Nashville pal and neighbor Elizabeth McAlister just captured this image on the beach at Ponte Vedra, Florida, just below Jacksonville. Do you suppose someone actually packed red food dye in the beach bag? The only thing this campfire needs is a driftwood grate, some moonstone burgers, and a pile of fried seaweed potato strings. [...]
April 21, 2009
The surest way to get that fire going is knowing there’s kindling. In Min’s 60s “Hillsboro Park” neighborhood of Forest (formerly Forrest) Hills, it rains wood. Oak, hickory, hackberry, mostly hackberry. With a big deep stone fireplace, and the fire pit on the patio, she’s gotten addicted to scavenging. The neighbors love it and so [...]
September 24, 2008
I believe we all experience a few special moments when we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what “love at first sight” truly means. For me, one such rare moment came a few years ago at the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association Expo in Atlanta. There she was, the E-Z Que Cradle Rotisserie perched [...]
August 18, 2008
The worst part about coming home from Massaweepie Scout Camp was that our backyard in suburban Rochester, NY, didn’t look at all like my patrol site in the Adirondacks. Thirty-five years later the key to my dream of a backyard boy scout camp was lying on the ground at City of Rocks State Park in [...]
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