Happy New Year! A baby to celebrate!

Rushing to post this before the end of the year. We were away in North Carolina celebrating the holidays with our new grandson–baby Aiden, born six weeks early on December…

Puffed up and set for chow down

  There’s this chicken that is complicated to make. The whole chicken–I mean whole, including head, feet, claws and feathers–is packed in mud and baked. And after hours of baking,…

When barbecue isn’t a barbecue

I know I’ve come to the right restaurant when instead of potato or tortilla chips, bread or peanuts, they bring out pork rinds for you to snack on! You even…

Surviving Thanksgiving: Roast Beef

Yay! This year my Thanksgiving turkey contribution was roast rib eye. There you see it, in its medium rare splendor. Roast beef with onion, carrots, parsnips and Brussels sprout. It…