I’ve got shit to do today. I think I already fixed my phone this morning, so that’s progress, but I also slept in til nearly noon, so shooting par. I still need to take a shower and go get my car inspected so I can renew my registration. The point…

I make these tacos all 👏 the damn 👏 time 👏. It’s pretty much two ingredients: rajas con queso. That’s strips of poblano pepper and cheese. It’s both the name and the ingredient list. I’m sure it varies from place to place and family to family, but it seems the…

I mentioned last weekend that I had a few trout filets in the smoker. I tell myself that I hadn’t planned on smoking fish, but I knew what I was doing when I walked by the HEB fish counter last Sunday. They had a special on farmed rainbow trout which…

If you read the smoked cheese post, you know I hinted at using the smoked swiss in a mushroom burger. If you didn’t read the smoked cheese post, you should check those pics out when you get a chance. I still have lots of smoked cheese I need to eat,…

I think that’s one of those unspoken hierarchies we all just naturally understand and agree to. Certainly, this “salad” has just as much ham as pasta, but there’s no way I’d try to convince you it’s ham salad. That’d constitute a bait-and-switch in my book. It is damn good pasta…

I made a cold smoker out of cardboard boxes and a mesh strainer a couple years ago. Sadly, I’ve only actually found opportunity to use it a couple times (we don’t get a lot of cool, dry weather here in TX). However, in my limited experience, I’ve found cheese to…