By Nick • March 10, 2010
It should be no surprise if you’re a regular reader around these parts that I enjoy spicy food. Normally, I turn to Southwestern food when I’m in the mood for some heat, but sometimes I’m not in the mood for something like a burrito or nachos.
These days I’ve been experimenting a lot more with Asian [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, Economical, healthy, pasta, spicy | Tagged asian cuisine, filipino cuisine, indonesian cuisine, japanese cuisine, noodle salad, noodles, peanut butter, peanut sauce, satay, sauce, singaporean cuisine, soba, soba noodles, soy sauce, spicy peanut sauce, vietnamese cuisine
By Nick • March 8, 2010
Betsy and I have a few other couples that we like to hang with on occasion. Usually we just get together, make some dinner, and drink copious amounts of beer and wine. Apparently though this was not ideal for the ladies in the group because a few weekends ago they scheduled a “Lady’s Night” and [...]
Posted in Dinner, Economical, good food, pork, spicy, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged barbecue, boston butt, braise, braising, carnitas, cooking, mexican cuisine, pork, pork butt, pulled pork
By Nick • March 1, 2010
Have you ever had one of those moments where you’ve been doing something one specific way (or eating a dish in one particular fashion) for, say, four years only to find out that it’s not the standard way to do it?!
I recently had one of those moments in a big way. It involved a fantastic [...]
Posted in Dinner, Fish, good food, spicy | Tagged food and drink, grits, hot sauces, roux, sauce, shrimps, southern dishes, southern united states, worcestershire sauce
By Nick • February 27, 2010
Last summer I went to an epic wedding in Austin, TX. Just for a little taste of how epic the wedding was, I ended up in the emergency room at 3AM with a head wound. Had to get about a dozen staples and that was the night before the wedding. So epic.
The thing I remember [...]
Posted in breakfast, Easy Stuff, Economical, good food, spicy, TIWSIMRIIHAR | Tagged bean, breakfast foods, corn tortillas, cuisine, flour tortilla, food and drink, fried corn, mexican cuisine, migas, refried, refried beans, tex mex
By Nick • February 18, 2010
I was kind of surprised that the stir-fried broccoli dish one last week’s poll. I guess people are still trying to stick to those new year’s resolutions so maybe chewy brownies are a no-no.
Anyway, I made a dish very simple to this a few months ago, but the technique that they recommend in Cook’s Illustrated [...]
Posted in Dinner, Easy Stuff, good food, spicy | Tagged american chinese cuisine, american cuisine, broccoli, chicken stock, cooking, cornstarch, garlic oil, home, hot sauce, how to stir fry broccoli, sauce, soy sauce, sriracha, stir fry broccoli, stir frying, vegetable oil
By Nick • February 4, 2010
I was actually kind of shocked that “something spicy” won last week’s poll. I figured that something fried would win for sure given that it’s for the Super Bowl. Shows you what I know!
My requirements for this dish were pretty simple. I wanted something that I could eat with my hands, that was super-spicy, and [...]
Posted in appetizers, Dinner, Easy Stuff, Fish, spicy, Stuffing Stuff | Tagged appetizers, cayenne, cheese, corn tortilla, cuisine of the southwestern united states, cuisine of the western united states, Dinner, guacamole, mexican cuisine, paprika, quesadilla, quesadillas, red pepper, shrimp, shrimp quesadilla, shrimps, spicy shrimp, sprimp, super bowl, Superbowl, tex-mex cuisine
