Easy Grilled Pizza

Pizza has a special place in my heart. I’ve made, warmed up, ordered, picked up, reheated and plain ate a ton of pizza over the past 30+ years. My favorite pizza of all time was the Tombstone pizza that my dad would buy for me in the bars of Blair, Wisconsin. This [...]

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Creamy Polenta with Gorgonzola Cheese

On Thursday of this past week I had to have a tooth removed. No, it was not because of bad oral hygiene and yes I do brush my teeth two to three times per day and floss fairly regularly. Actually I cracked the tooth some time back and it was not getting better. [...]

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Awesome Turkey Burgers

Wow, what a week. We went out to Mexican food on Friday, Spanish Tortillas on Saturday and Sunday mornings, baby back ribs for dinner on Saturday and slow cooked (6 hours) brisket on Sunday. Monday, left over Brisket. Tuesday I came home from the restaurant and Nancy was baking two pizzas, one [...]

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Slow & Indirect – Barbecued Baby Back Ribs

Baby Back Ribs

In my household both of my stepsons, Randy and Jacob, 20 and 16, will rarely if ever eat leftovers, unless the food is incredible. I cooked baby back ribs on Saturday, 3 racks – about 6 pounds, and they were gone the next day! I would have to say they were the best [...]

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Potato Education

I had plenty of problems trying to figure out which potatoes to use for baking, salads, oven frys or to make the best mashed potatoes. If you are anything like me you might read it in a recipe and then forget. So I thought it would make sense to put the info down [...]

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Spanish Tortilla #2 – Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner

Sunday morning and ready for part two of Spanish Tortilla weekend. My dad is up visiting from California and we’ve been cooking all kinds of things this weekend. Untraditional Spanish Tortilla yesterday morning, baby-back ribs last night, a more traditional Spanish Tortilla this morning and a slow-cooked brisket coming up this afternoon.
Unfortunately he [...]

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Spanish Tortilla – Baked Eggs Omelet and Potatoes

10:44 on Friday night and I’m starting on my blog for Sunday’s posting. My father made it from California to our house in Nevada today after some adventure. I gave him the wrong directions, a simple left instead of right, and he drove quite a bit out of the way. Fortunately he [...]

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Buffalo Cheeseburger with Caramelized Onions

Let me start by sharing a story. I received an email today from one of my siblings to let me know that our mother is actually a good cook (you must read the ‘About Joe’ page to understand) I assume she was implying that I was bagging on my parents, specifically my moms, cooking [...]

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Baking Bacon (Oven Frying)

How do you cook your bacon? What do you do if a whole group of people are coming over for breakfast? Questions I needed to answer this morning because I was cooking for 7 people and I wanted bacon, omelets, baked eggs and toast. My father-in-law, both of my step-son’s and one of their friends, [...]

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Boiling Eggs

I’m sitting here tonight thinking about eggs and waiting for Nancy to get out of the shower so we can watch a movie. Tomorrow I’m going to have a group over for breakfast, Father’s Day, and I’m going to make omelets and baked eggs, with bacon and toast (I will share my foolproof way [...]

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