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The Wide World of BBQ
From your email, please click on the title to view the photos and comment online. I’ve spent most of my summers cooking over fires of one kind or another, and this year, I am looking for some variety in my…
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Big Jim’s Cookin’: There’s the Rub
Back in the late 1960s, my local farm community in Illinois was abuzz about Jane’s Krazy Mixed Up Salt – especially the men, who dusted any meat imaginable with the stuff before sacrificing it upon a grill. In that meat-and-potatoes…
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Soul-Satisfying Soup
The weather is downright cool at night and the leaves are falling: It’s soup season. When I visited my mother on the farm in mid-October, she requested ham soup with dumplings. Upon returning home, I’ve been following that lead, cooking…
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Rubbing Your Meat the Right Way
Want to up your grilling game? I’ll advise paying more attention to the foundations of flavor. It’s about more than just lighting the fire and attending to the heat. Steve Raichlen, the author of several books on barbecue including The…
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Farmboys and Indians
One of Mrs. Farmboy’s favorite stories involves my longstanding aversion to Indian food. For years she knew that although I have a decidedly adventurous palate, I had declared that I didn’t like Indian food. She left it at that. Then…
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Making Do in the New Normal
The supermarket shelves are slowly getting back to normal. At least in the supermarket I frequent, flour, yeast, and of course TP are generally on the shelves. Still, some items I need are persistently out of stock: plain gelatin powder,…
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Add a Little Spice (Blend) to Your Life
In March 1959, when I was in the eighth grade, my family embarked on a monumental road trip from the freezing farmland to Arizona and sunny California via Route 66. That road trip would put National Lampoon’s Vacation movie to…
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Ras El Hanout
In Morocco, the name is translated as "head of shop." In North Africa, this blend can contain from 10 to 100 different spices.
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Garam Masala
Indian spice blend
