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A Duck Walks Into a Bar …
A duck walks into a bar. And he says to the bartender “Got any cherries?” The bartender says “No, I don’t have any cherries.” The duck walks out, sorely disappointed. So the next day, he walks back...
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Lady Galantine’s Lover
I saw her from across the room. She was perfection. Studying her grace, elegance and beauty, I wanted her. Badly. I didn’t care if she was alone and I didn’t care that others wanted her; she would be...
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Bresaola on my Mind
This month’s Charcutepalooza challenge was all about curing a hunk of meat. Fully convinced that I didn’t have an appropriate space to hang meat for 3-4 weeks, I figured I was finally unable to...
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Family, Frank and Finale.
By its very nature, Charcuterie is a slow food. Preparing to make it takes time, actually making it takes time and it takes time to wait until it’s ready to eat. There is nothing about the process...
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The Best-Laid Plans…
This fall, we’re going on vacation. In itself, this is not news — we vacation often. This one is not an ordinary vacation. It’s “the vacation of a lifetime.” Five weeks in Europe (mostly Italy) and...
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A Comforting Old Friend – Porcupine Meatballs
My mom could make a package of hamburger stretch so far it would cry “Uncle!” She was a master at feeding the six of us with a finesse that never let on that we really didn’t have a lot of money. In...
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Summer Fresh Peach Pie
You’ve seen the commercials this time of year offering visions of families, apple pies, fireworks, American Flags, summertime parties, grilling burgers and big pickup trucks. Well, to me that’s just...
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Homebrewed to Home Baked: Spent Grain Bread
“Two of the more dubious achievements of American culture are white bread and light beer.” – Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly (Real Beer and Good Eats) Of all the cooking up of things my family does, one...
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Yesterday.
Yesterday was a tough day. Tougher than I expected it to be. You see, on August 10, my family changed forever when my dad passed away in the evening. Having fought Alzheimer’s Disease for ten years,...
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They Are All Our Children, America!
I live in a food desert — an actual food desert.* I’ve lived in this area most of my life and it has never bothered me that the grocery store is at least 5 miles away and the one with the best prices...
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Whisky Pig and the Big, New Adventure
This is Whisky Pig. Whisky Pig spent the past several months on a farm about 60 miles away living high on the hog with his piggy siblings, eating nothing but locally grown spent grain from Seven...
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