
A Recipe For Tiffin Inn Beef Stroganoff
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.


A Recipe For Tiffin Inn Beef Stroganoff
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.

DD hot sausage out of Bogalusa is a crucial ingredient in our gumbo
During this time I’ve learned that the Holy Trinity is not sacrosanct in the 22 parishes that comprise Cajun country.

Chataignier Supper Club prepares crawfish etouffee

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.
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
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 [photo courtesy Ryan Adams]
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?
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
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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