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A Recipe For Tiffin Inn Beef Stroganoff

A Recipe For Tiffin Inn Beef Stroganoff

We’re still pining after the old Tiffin Inn that shuttered a decade ago in Metairie.

On a recent taxi ride, our cabby was feeling loquacious, and she rambled on for quite a bit about how sorrowful she was over the closure.

The Myth of the Holy Trinity

DD hot sausage out of Bogalusa is a crucial ingredient in our gumbo

Over the last few decades I’ve eaten hundreds of bowls of gumbo from the best kitchens across Acadiana.

During this time I’ve learned that the Holy Trinity is not sacrosanct in the 22 parishes that comprise Cajun country.

Recipe: RL Reeves Jr Crawfish Étouffée With The Holy Trinity

Chataignier Supper Club prepares crawfish etouffee

The World Championship Crawfish Étouffée Cook-Off was started in 1986 in Eunice, the ‘Prairie Cajun Capital of Louisiana’. That first year none other than Dewey Balfa provided entertainment to the 107 cooking teams, and hungry assembled Cajuns.

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: York Peppermint Patty Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

York Peppermint Patty Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies

I no longer earn my living as a pastry chef but I still love the process of baking.

Recipe: Red Beans And Rice With Smoked Alligator Sausage

We have a life long love of gators.

Perhaps this was brought on by old actioners like Alligator [screenplay by John Sayles], the incredible 80s film wherein a beastly, 36 foot long gator attacks a stretch limo and occasionally erupts out of the Chicago sewer system to devour unwary residents of the Windy City.

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Pinto Beans With Jalapenos and Bacon

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Pinto Beans With Jalapenos and Bacon

Deluxe Side Dishes For Central Texas Barbecue

When I’m motoring out to Central Texas barbecue’s legendary smokehouses I do not eat side dishes.

People fly to Texas from all over the globe to eat at the smoked meat temples of Smithville, Taylor, Lockhart and Luling.

It ain’t for the potato salad.

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Spaghetti With Sweet Onion Brisket Ragu

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Spaghetti With Sweet Onion Brisket Ragu [photo courtesy Ryan Adams]

When in the presence of a superior cook, I like to focus, laser-like, on the subject at hand, take notes and give proper deference to the higher authority.

Such was the case on many trips to Agata’s kitchen in Alabaster, Alabama.

There is an enormous Italian diaspora in central Alabama.

For decades, immigrants from the Boot have traveled to Dixie to settle into the fertile blacklands, and begin their new lives among the country folk of Chilton, Shelby and Jefferson counties.

It’s a little known fact that the Birmingham area hosts some of the finest Italian restaurants in the whole United States.

Places where they still bring a hot loaf of bread to table the moment you’re seated, Chianti bottles line the walls, and the tablecloths?

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Cajun Green Onion Rice Pilaf

Even after almost 20 years in professional kitchens I’m still picking up tricks and techniques from some of my friends who are skilled home cooks.

Such is the case as I sit to dine at my buddy Ron’s house in verdant Pflugerville Texas.

He’s a retired insurance adjuster and an enthusiastic home cook who can bang out a top notch smoked pork shoulder and bottles his own righteously fiery Tex Mex table salsa with loads of jalapenos.

We’re having a fish fry and he’s anxious to show me his rice pilaf recipe and technique.

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Funky Hot Vietnamese Collard Greens With Fried Green Onions

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Funky Hot Vietnamese Collard Greens With Fried Green Onions

Growing up on a farm in the Cumberland Highlands means you have easy access to fresh vegetables year-round. What vegetables our family didn’t eat at the moment of ripeness were canned or vacuum-sealed via a magical apparatus known as the Seal-a-Meal.

A Recipe For Alabama White Barbecue Sauce From Clark Rountree

The foodways of Alabama barbecue are second only to Texas for their primacy in the world of USA smoked meats. When I was a teenager growing up in Birmingham I raced across the state on my Honda Interceptor motorbike trying as hard as possible to eat from every smokehouse in the Yellowhammer state.

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