Spicy Bird Has Me Flying High: Whole Roasted Chicken with North African Spices

You know how you get those urges to roast meat when its cold outside? Or when you are hungry? Or how your mouth starts to water when you think about tender meat falling off the bone and then saliva is dripping down your chin but you dont notice. No. No, you dont. Cause you got [...]

The Puerto Rican French Fry: Tostones

Tostones are what I like to call the puerto rican french fry. It stared out as a healthy vegetable, but with enough human intervention, it developed into a salty, crispy accompaniment doused in hot sauce or fresh garlic.
Tostones are made from green plantains which look like massive hard green bananas. If you buy them ripened, [...]

Pickles For Your Loved Ones: Homemade Kimchi

It was a friend’s birthday recently so we decided to give a peck of pickled perfection. The tasty treat was a trifecta of Bob McClures Spicy Dill, Rick’s Pick’s Mean Beans, and JJ’s Homemade Tried and True Super Tested Fire Butt Kimchi (that’s the new name). Check my recipe for the least traditional kimchi you [...]

Sheffin Other People’s Recipes: Soy and Citrus Sea Bass Over Couscous

I realize that I have been a fat ass in the making since I was little. On playdates, friends would come over and play cooking. All my first jobs were centered around food, from manning a bakery to making cupcakes (ok, i didn’t actually get PAID for that). Some of the funnest and most hormone-inducing [...]