Mojo Marinated Pork
So I have been really excited about Cuban flavors recently. Partly due to the fact that I love the movie Chef, but mainly because they are just great flavors. I have decided to mix this with my love of...
View ArticleSuperbowl Meal
So I have been super excited for this day to come. Not so much for the game, although I hope it is a good one, but more for the cooking. What is on the menu for the big game? I’m glad you asked! I am...
View ArticlePork Belly
This week I was fortunate to get my hands on a healthy supply of pork belly. Now the question is what to do with all of it. Now this might be kind of a daunting task for a lot of people, but as for me,...
View ArticleChamber Sealer|The Un-Boxing
To day is a super exciting day for me. I received by far my most coveted piece of kitchen equipment. I just got home to find a huge box on my front porch, and inside of it a beautiful new Polyscience...
View ArticleBeef Tongue: My favorite meat for tacos
I decided since I now have a sealer that I can make all kinds of fun things that would have been to tough to do with my FoodSaver. So I picked up one of my favorite meats for tacos, beef tongue! This...
View ArticleUn-boxing the Anova Precision Cooker
This has been a really exciting week of deliveries to my doorstep. First I get the new Gluten-Free Flour Power from Ideas in Food. Then a few minutes later I get a package delivered from Anova. Let the...
View ArticleTough Cuts of Meat
Amazing Transformation of Meat So over this last week I have tried cooking a couple of tough cuts of meet for longer periods of time. The first thing I did was a corned beef. This was a crazy eye...
View ArticlePork Loin Experiment
I decided this week that I was going to play around with a pork loin. My original Idea with this was to finally bust out my mooglue and butterfly and stuff the loin then “glue” it before I rolled it...
View ArticleContinue to Learn
The Never Ending Quest for Knowledge One of the best parts of teaching classes at Sur La Table, other than getting to teach people and use lot of fun tools, is the fact that I get asked some really...
View ArticleNew and Exciting Sous Vide Products
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal Just as with any other industry, there is constantly changes in the technology put into the tools we use. There are some really exciting new things coming out soon...
View ArticleExperiments with Sous Vide Octopus
I decided this week I needed to get my cooking and experimenting groove back. So on my days off I decided to pick up an octopus. My goal, techniques and experiments with sous vide octopus. Now getting...
View ArticleSous Vide Creme Brulee
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal This has been a question that I have been asked several times now. How in the world do you make a creme brulee in an immersion circulator. Well let me share the...
View ArticleVitello Tonnato
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal A couple of weeks ago at work I was lucky enough to be able to show off some cooking with an immersion circulator. The dish I was able to show off with was vitello...
View ArticleSous Vide Lamb Shank
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal Sorry for the long delay in a post. We have been seriously understaffed at work which has resulted in me having to work 6 days a week. As you know this is not the...
View ArticleChicken Feet, Maybe a New Favorite
There has always been one thing in the meat department of the super market that has caught my eye. And at the same time that in intrigues me, it has scared the crap out of me. Yes by the title I am...
View ArticleGift Ideas for a Foodie
This time of the year can be a lot of fun. I absolutely love giving people gifts. I find a lot of joy in trying to find the perfect gift for friends and family. But at the same time it can be so...
View ArticleSous Vide Bacon
A few weeks ago one of my favorite blogs, Serious Eats, did an article about overnight sous vide bacon. How could I not try this. Two of my favorite things, sous vide and bacon! This was the perfect...
View ArticlePlaying with Some New Steaks
One of the great parts about living in Idaho is all of the great beef we have access to. Well recently I was made aware of a new source and a new kind of beef. Enter the Akaushi beef, roughly...
View ArticleAnother Round of Beef Tongue
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal A while back I had done an article on sous vide beef tongue. So I thought it was time for another round of beef tongue. Again the plan was to sous vide it to start...
View ArticlePlaying with Pork Belly
Easy Plugin for AdSense by Unreal In the past I had played around with pork belly. Specifically testing different times and temperatures. Well I had another chunk of belly in the freezer so I decided...
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