Grilled Bread Salad With Tomatoes and Basil

A salad without lettuce?  Who would have thought this would be something that tasted awesome.   I saw this on the Fine Cooking website and figured it would be a novel idea to try and blog about.  Little did I know that it would, in fact, be a flavorful and extremely tasty appetizer.  You’ve just

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A Simple Pork Loin Sandwich

What to do with a left over pork loin?  A sandwich of course!

A couple slices of Russian Rye bread, thinly sliced pork loin, pepper jack cheese, horseradish mayo and you’ve gotten the makings for a decent dinner.  Toss in some fritos (the king of chips) and a dill pickle and it doesn’t get

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A Little Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce & Tomato Sandwich

On The BBQ Brethren Forum each week we have a Throwdown.  Each member who wants to participates uses the “theme” for that week to cook something.  Their entry is then posted and the membership votes.  It seems each week the Throwdowns are getting more and more outrageous.  This weeks theme is bacon and some of

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Wood Planked Barramundi with Mango Salsa

The bbq/grilling menu lately has been a little heavy on the beef, pork and chicken proteins so a little seafood was in order for dinner last night.  After some consultation with my Facebook “friends” I decided to give Barramundi a try.

Barramundi have white, flaky flesh, though the larger freshwater ones commonly carry

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Not Your Momma’s Hot Pocket!

Last week Celeste, my sweet wife, and I were watching “The Best Thing I Ever Ate” on the Food Network.  The episode was on BBQ and one of the hosts was eating at a Chinese restaurant with BBQ Pork Buns.  Celeste and I almost at the same time came up with the idea that we

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Cornbread Revisited

I just finished the last of the New Year’s Day Cornbread. And I got to thinking about just how good it was.

One of my favorite restaurants is Bandera in Sacramento. They make the most amazing cornbread. It isn’t often that I’ll go to a restaurant because of a side dish, but in the case

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