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Grilled Sweet Potato Fries with Sriracha Dipping Sauce – Today we are making one of my favorite summer side dishes – grilled sweet potato fries. This is a perfect Cooking Secrets for Men technique. We parboil the sweet potatoes whole, cut them into wedges, and then finish them on theRead More…
Thermometer Review. The correct temperature is critical to serving up great food. And, your temperature probe needs to be both fast and accurate. And I think I have found the perfect kitchen thermometer. The ChefsTemp Final Touch x-10 Professional-grade cooking thermometer is a great kitchen gadget. It is the World’sRead More…
Stuffed Burger Wisconsin Style – The Dude, from The Dude’s Kitchen n Grill on YouTube asked us to put together a burger, using ingredients from our local area. It is featured under the hashtag Twistedburger. So, I will make a burger with Wisconsin ingredients. I use Wisconsin Colby Cheese andRead More…
Roasted Beet and Carrot Salad – We are making something for spring, a Roasted Beet and Carrot Salad. We are going to use Golden Beets instead of the more traditional red beets. And we are going to use some Aloha Honey’s Lemon Blossom Honey to add a little sweetness. ToRead More…
Curried Chicken Salad – With this recipe, I wanted to accomplish two things. I would like to make an easy dish using a rotisserie chicken. And I wanted to use some of the Paradise Fruit Company’s crystallized (candied) ginger in a recipe. So, we made a Curried Chicken Salad withRead More…
Cooking Shrimp in beer – For this recipe, we did something a little different and a little special. The Dude, of The Dude’s Kitchen N Grill on YouTube, proposed a collaboration called hashtag #newbeersday, to celebrate the beginning of the end of Prohibition on April 7th. His thinking was toRead More…