Growing up, Thanksgiving was a time of a lot of food and drink.  We had the big bowl of nuts, the bag of tangerines, and eggnog.  My dad made rum spiked with eggnog.  I am surprised that the eggnog didn’t curdle.  I believe that eggnog is a generational thing.  I  figured there had to be…

The best chili dog in the world is the Detroit coney.  I have one every time I’m in the “D”.  They don’t make them in DC – yeah, I know there is Ben’s Chili Bowl’s half smoked, but it’s no contest.  So what do you do when you can’t get a food you love?  You…

 I am a guy from Detroit with a dream.  I am not familiar with a lot of southern cooking which is why my go-to on all things Southern cooking is my friend Beth.  She gave me some great ideas from her Mama’s recipes.  Thank you, friend. So the results.  I decided to kill two pies…

This recipe is a different take on stuffing for people who can’t do the bread/gluten thing.  I have wanted to do an oyster dressing for a while, but I couldn’t decide on Louisiana or Boston style.  I worked with both, but it came down to the andouille sausage spicy flavor.  So now you can have…

My brother Mike called me and joked that he was choking on a microwave meat filled pastry, and I should do a recipe on the blog. That got me thinking (a dangerous pastime I know). Leslie version(vegetarian) and a Daddy person version.  I will repeat a tip: butter! butter! butter! or you will have fly…