The great thing about making your own BBQ sauce is that you get to control what is in it. No ingredients with names you can’t pronounce, it can be adjusted to just your taste or to what you’re serving. It can have just the salt you are allowed or even go saltless. You can use…
Tuscan Halibut w/ Roasted Root Vegetables
When I lived in Seattle, I had access to amazing seafood. Halibut was cheap, well sort of, but I would go to the Pike Street Market and get it right off the boat. When I was at my favorite fish monger (Crosby’s Crab Company) this week, they had some in the counter so I decided…
Thanksgiving upgrades and shortcuts
Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for many. I find the key to a good day is planning. Planning and shortcuts. I have been making turkey day dinner for 40 or so years and have found some surefire hits and some shortcuts. (If you want the long, gourmet way, there are recipes on this blog.) 1…
Fried Chicken Pot Pie
This was an idea I have been playing with for a couple of months. I know my Michigan friend are already thinking the Pasty. That is so Upper Peninsula. Pot pies are comfort food for the fall and winter but the only way I had ever had them were out of the frozen section…
Weber Turkey Instructions
A couple of people have asked me how I do the Thanksgiving turkey and when I tell them I do it in my Weber grill, they ask how I do it. I’ve been doing it this way since I lived in Detroit, so a long time. My brother Pat (Butch) was the one who got…
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