Simple Savings
In which an NY Times writer asks the important question: Do you need all that water to boil pasta?
PigSkin Recipe - Buffalo Chicken Eggrolls
[Editor's Note: This should have been posted yesterday, but I had the day off from work, so I didn't notice that Shawn had sent me this post. Sorry about that.]
You must know by now that I am a Buffalo chicken man. I basically eat some kind of buffalo chicken at lease once every two days. [...]
Hot Texas Pork Poppers
For this week’s Pigskin Recipe, I’m gonna show you my little twist on Jalapeno Poppers. If you can handle the heat, they make for fantastic appetizers. Damn, these are good. Now go Pats!
Ingredients:
1 pork tenderloin
1 can or jar of sliced jalepenos (keep the juice)
Bacon strips
1/2 large bottle of zesty Italian dressing
Worcestershire sauce
2 tsp liquid smoke
Green [...]
Stumpy Beware
From the Daily Mail UK’s Aspiring chef dies hours after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating contest: “An aspiring cook who challenged his friend to a chilli-eating contest died just hours later. Andrew Lee, 33, had used a bag of home-grown red chillies to make a super-hot sauce. The forklift truck driver, who had recently passed [...]
Stumpy’s Steak Tips and Sauce
Even with the Pats on the bye this week, here is Stumpy’s PigSkin recipe. These are great steak tips, and since it’s still nice enough to grill, I thought I’d share then with you all. The sauce takes some time to make, but it’s worth it!
Ingredients for Marinating Steak Tips
3 pounds Steak Tips
1/4 cup red [...]
Spicy Grilled Jerk Chicken Wings
Here is the second installment of Stumpy’s Pigskin Recipe. I had these last week and they were awesome. I actually made more than this, about 5 lbs of chicken, but there were six guys eating them and frankly, I don’t think you have that many friends. So I made this version be enough for the [...]
Patriot Buffalo-Chicken Dip
FOOTBALL IS HERE! Every red blooded American Male is grinning ear to ear this week. Football is back, and to kick off the season, I’ve got a buffalo-chicken dip that you have to make. It goes great with crackers.
Before we get to the dip though, we have some housekeeping to do. For this season, I’ll [...]
Stumpy’s Burger Off Entry
[Editor's note: This should've been published yesterday. Sorry about that.]
So I was a participant of one of those famous Poultney Cook Offs, the Burger Off. Below is the recipe I entered, a Fajita Burger. It didn’t win, but people liked it! — NOW GET COOKING!
Ingredients
1 1/4 pound ground beef
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small red onion, [...]
The Burger Off
Obligatory Introductory Paragraph
Some of you may remember that, up here in the Poultney village, we like to do a little thing called a Cook Off. It’s basically Iron Chef style rules, where there’s one main ingredient/kind-of-food and the rest is up to the chefs. We’ve been doing this thing for…jeez…three years, I guess. It started [...]
In Anticipation of Tomorrow’s Burger Off
From Here’s Cooking At You Kid’s Thai won on Build a Better Burger Contest: “Karen’s delicious blending of the two worlds of American grill classics and Thai cuisine turned taste buds in Napa valley and captured the $50,000 Grand Prize yesterday in Sutter Home Winery’s annual Build a Better Burger Contest.” [Hat tip to Amber [...]
