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RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Oven Roasted Carnitas

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Oven Roasted Carnitas

I knew that I had a established myself as a deadly serious Mexican cook when I rolled into the Rio Grande Valley roughly 30 years ago and blew the minds of a couple dozen natives with my carnitas recipe.

It was a family reunion, puro la raza, and I was the only gringo there. The tias and abuelitas were gathered in the kitchen making all the tortillas, rice and beans from scratch but I had been entrusted with the carnitas.

Here’s how I became, as they put it, an honorary Mexican

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Carroll Shelby Texas Chili With Ground Turkey

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Carroll Shelby Texas Chili With Ground Turkey

The underground economy in New Orleans is still thriving. I did a friend a nice favor recently and in exchange he gifted me a three pound packet of Jennie O ground turkey.

A Recipe For Couche Couche

A Recipe For Couche Couche

I grew up eating couche couche but it had a different name in rural Kentucky.

Up in Appalachia it’s called cornmeal mush but the backbone of the dish is identical.

You fry up a pan of cornmeal batter in bacon drippings, and as it’s setting up you take a wooden spoon and stir it around a bit til it’s all crispy bits mixed with soft white bread.

A Recipe For Homemade 7UP With Stevia

A Recipe For Homemade 7UP With Stevia

A few years ago I realized I had to make a change. If I was going to be able to keep on eating all the cake, pie and donuts I wanted, I was going to have to figure out how to get a chunk of sugar out of my diet or I’d be dead from the diabetes by the time I was 40.

How To Smoke Five Pounds Of Grocery Store Pork Chops

How To Smoke Five Pounds Of Grocery Store Pork Chops

When I was a kid growing up in the Cumberland Highlands of rural Appalachia, it was common practice to walk out behind my grandparents farmhouse to grab a slab of cured hog meat out of the smokehouse.

Corbin Kentucky Native Reveals Colonel Sanders Original Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe

Corbin Kentucky Native Reveals Colonel Sanders Original Kentucky Fried Chicken Recipe

Several years ago the Chicago Tribune broke a story that still has the state of Kentucky in an uproar. Joe Ledington, a Corbin, Kentucky native who is a nephew to Colonel Sanders shared the original Kentucky Fried Chicken recipe with a writer for the paper.

RL Reeves Jr Recipe: Smoked Chicken Jambalaya With Andouille Sausage And Roasted Hatch Chiles

RL Reeves Jr Recipe For Smoked Chicken Jambalaya With Andouille Sausage And Roasted Hatch Chiles

We were rooting around in the freezer awhile back trying to ward off starvation and seeing which frozen meat packets we’d spirited in from Acadiana still held promise.

Nellie Sullivan Recipe: Sweet Batter Pudding With Fresh Blackberries

When July rolls around in the Cumberland Highlands of Eastern Kentucky it’s time to hit the strip mines with a big plastic jug, and go blackberry picking.

RL Reeves Jr Mexican Green Spaghetti Method

RL Reeves Jr Mexican Green Spaghetti Method

In the late 19th century, Texas hot guts sausage took the Lone Star state by storm. Ground up bull meat seasoned with hot red pepper, garlic and salt – then submitted to mesquite or post oak smoke suddenly became de rigueur on meat shop menus.

A hundred years later, brisket, a long-running warhorse in the Texas barbecue game, took on added verve when Bobby Mueller and his son John strapped a rocket to a steer’s ass and redefined what we thought of the old menu staple.

Yeah, we’d all been eating brisket since the FDR era but we’d never had it like this. Bobby and John are both deceased but before their passing Bobby told me that the barbecue he was serving would’ve been declared ‘over-cooked’ when he was on the come up.

Slow Difficult Recipes: Agata’s Lasagna

Back when I lived in Alabama I became friends with a girl whose grandmother, Agata, was from Sicily. We’d ride out to the sleepy little town of Alabaster on Sunday afternoons where the granny would be busying herself in the kitchen-dealing out culinary trump cards of obscene deliciousness.

My all time favorite dish she made was an intensely garlicky red-sauced lasagna that boasts three pounds of cheeses.This recipe needs no meat. Meat would just get in the way of this profoundly Italian tasting casserole.

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