Meaty Monday: Simple Stir Fried Pork And Veggies

 

I had a little pork loin in the freezer leftover from a previous cook and only had just a bit of time to to whip up some dinner.  While thinking about what I was exploring the pantry, thinking about what I was going to cook, I came across a cast iron cooking insert for my Char-Broil RED

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Meatless Monday: Stuffed Peppers and Tomatoes

It has been several months since I’ve cooked a Meatless Monday dish and I now that Summer has arrived and the produce is getting better I figured it was time to give one a try.  This dish uses  two of my favorite veggies: tomatoes and bell peppers.  I bought the tomatoes but in a month

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Plank Grilling: Shrimp With Teriyaki Glaze On Lemon Grass Skewers

There are lots of different wood products you can get to skewer shrimp on.  You can get the standard, ordinary, run of the mill bamboo skewers or you can use something like Lemon Grass that will impart a little extra flavor into the shrimp.

Lemon grass (Cymbopogon citratus), a native of India, is widely

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Holy Spam Sushi Batman, It’s Musubi!

Spam maybe one of the most maligned meats on Earth.  You either like it, maybe even love it or you just don’t like it, maybe even hate it.

In Hawaii it seems Spam is so popular it’s known as “The Hawaiian Steak.”  One of the results of this love of Spam

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Jambalaya! The Big Easy Way

I participate in the Sizzle On The Grill Forum run by Char-Broil.  One of my favorite Char-Broil products is the Big Easy Smoker Roaster Grill because of the cooking versatility.  One of the discussions on the more interesting uses I’ve seen for SRG was for dutch oven cooking.  In most cases the dutch oven is

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Stuffed Poblano Peppers (Take 1)

This past week I was asked by a friend to develope three recipes using his rubs.  The recipes would be used on new website and possibly in a self-published cookbook in 2011.  Because I promised a degree of confidentiality on this project the name of the rub has been left out of the recipe below. 

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Can black be appetizing?

For some strange reason I had the urge to create a meal in “honor” of Black Friday.  I have no reason other than sometimes cooking has to be fun and I just needed to do something different.  The only way to represent Black Friday properly would have to create an all black meal.

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