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BBQ Beef Brisket
I had mentioned to Kristine how when I went to Chicago last year, I wasn’t able to come out to her place and that she had promised me some BBQ, so we were going to make up for lost time. Kristine had marinated a large brisket for awhile and started it up on her Kamado…
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Smash Burgers at Kristine’s
We drove down from Madison to Kristine’s place. Kristine and Britten had things in full swing already. Lili and Dave were there with some Bella Union and Nickel & Nickel wine (yum!). Britten was frantically busy on the flattop on the grill making smash burgers. They were double cheese with bacon with buttered and grilled…
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Brunch at Jean’s
We were staying at Jean’s place and had gone to the Coldplay concert thanks to Jean. We all slept in a bit the next morning after that late night. I went for a beautiful run in the area and worked up an appetite. Jean made some delicious egg, canadian bacon, english muffins and cheesy hashbrowns.…
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Country Ribs on the BGE
We were invited to a July 4th BBQ at one of our neighbors Christina and Kevin. I was going to bring something like a pork shoulder, but they had a bunch of meat and asked if we could cook some of them, so that was easy. Of course, i had never done country ribs before…
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Charcuterie and more
My sister put together a nice array of bites for us after our drive over from Naples.
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Crab and Pork
Mom made some crab and fried pork riblets. A lot of work to get the meat out of the crab, but it was tasty. The pork riblets were delicious. My mom blanched them first and then coated in flower and fried. Was great with the jalapeño vinegar my made to balance out the fat and…
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Dinner at Trisha’s
We were still pretty full from lunch at INÉ so Trisha just put together a quick meal for us – some cheese and crackers, fried bresaola and arugula, and potato soup. Delicious as always with Trisha. For dessert, we helped demolish Trisha’s chocolate advent calendar from Harrods, but there was too much even for all…
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Christmas Dinner
One reason I look forward to Christmas dinner is because it’s the one time of the year that Andrea makes her beef wellington with a delicious peppercorn sauce. It starts with a center cut beef tenderloin from our local butcher shop Baron’s Meat. She sears it, slathers it in dijon mustard. She wraps this in…
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Holiday Cookies
My sister always makes a mountain of cookies to give everyone every year and I always get my batch. Here is a sampling of the cookies she sent including some from her cookie contest (the quarter sized ones) as well as some specially decorated by my nieces for me (note the Rick Astley one and…
