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Boiling Water: A Beginner's Guide

January 31, 2006 8:38 PM || 0 Comments

I've been thinking about boiling water for a while now. This is a subject that is often equated with not being able to cook. You've probably heard jokes about someone...

Men in Aprons - The Comic, part 3

January 30, 2006 9:57 PM || 0 Comments

Men in Aprons - The Comic is a little bit of fun that I indulge in every once in a while over at a great web site called Strip Creator....

Drink Terminology: Sex on the Brain

January 30, 2006 11:30 AM || 0 Comments

There are a million different alcholic mixed drinks out there. Each one of them can be made slightly different, and most have very weird names. Since alcohol is often equated...

Reading and Executing a Recipe

January 30, 2006 8:14 AM || 0 Comments

Reading a recipe is one thing, excuting that recipe is another. For a very linear-thinking mind like mine, I really need to see a recipe that is straightforward and clear...

Recipe: Dirty Third Hominy

January 27, 2006 12:26 PM || 0 Comments

I based this recipe off a dish in the Lodge Cast Iron Skillet cookbook, but made it a little spicier by adding some Serrano Peppers and removing the god-awful...

Cap'n Crunch and Pixie Stick Sandwich from The Breakfast Club

January 26, 2006 4:50 PM || 0 Comments

Ever seen The Breakfast Club? During the lunchtime scene, Ally Sheedy's character makes a delicious-looking sandwich consisting of white bread, Cap'n Crunch Cereal and pixie stick dust sprinkled on...

Sliced Sausage: The Fancy Factor

January 25, 2006 9:21 AM || 0 Comments

Slicing some link sausage? Need to make things look a little fancier than plain old circles? Well, do what the barbeque joints do, and cut them diagonally, almost lengthwise along...

Learning Doneness: The Hand Test Method

January 24, 2006 10:17 PM || 0 Comments

There is a really easy way to learn how well done your steaks are when grilling over the holy fires. I call it the hand method. I actually learned this...

More Men in Aprons

January 23, 2006 3:44 PM || 0 Comments

The list of other Men in Aprons is growing. One of my readers/listeners has started his own cooking weblog. Brady, normally of ShovelMonkey's TestPit, is now the proud operator of...

Oil and Butter: Hand in Hand

January 23, 2006 6:00 AM || 0 Comments

Have you ever watched a cooking program and seen a chef add some butter to some oilve oil when sauteeing some vegetables or searing some meat? There are reasons for...

Sexy Steaks for Two

January 21, 2006 1:05 PM || 0 Comments

I am becoming the master of pan gravy. Bow to your master. Not you ... the gravy. There are many different methods to making a pan gravy or pan...

What in the Heck? #10

January 20, 2006 6:00 AM || 0 Comments

What a peculiar looking object this is! Almost like a colander ... yet not. What in the heck could it possibly be? The first person to send me an...

Glamorization

January 19, 2006 7:00 AM || 0 Comments

Food bloggers do it all. We do it with the lights on and with chocolate! That's right, not only do we cook, experiment, and eat, we also get on our...

A Treatise on Grilling, part 4

January 18, 2006 4:35 PM || 0 Comments

A Feast That Walks Along the GroundIf you are a novice griller, then pork chops are what you should practice your grilling techniques. It is terribly difficult to mess up...

Bread Pudding Parfait

January 17, 2006 10:32 AM || 0 Comments

Over the weekend, I had been thinking a lot about my Java Bread Pudding, mostly because I wanted some and was hungry. But I was distressed about the fact that...

Recipe: Kahlua Cool Whip

January 17, 2006 8:00 AM || 0 Comments

The internet came up spectacularly empty when it came to a search on flavored Cool Whip® recipes. Look, whatever you do, please do not make this recipe and then slather...

Recipe: Chipotle Hominy Hash

January 15, 2006 10:13 AM || 0 Comments

This is my test version of The Hominy as written in The Binders. Doesn't that sound cryptic? Just check out that link and then the description of The Binders...

Binder Recipe: The Hominy

January 14, 2006 9:44 AM || 0 Comments

This is a recipe I found in the binders that I liked and wanted to play with. I like to consider this a recipe as a base that you can...

Kentucky Colonels

January 13, 2006 8:54 AM || 0 Comments

I have decided that this will be the weekend of the binders. I haven't been forthcoming with many recipes from the tres amigos binders, and I feel extremely guilty about...

Everyday Italian: Every Day

January 12, 2006 3:45 PM || 0 Comments

As I ripped the wrapping paper off the present and saw the shiny green packaging and her winning smile, my mouth dried up and my breath was taken away to...

Men in Aprons

January 11, 2006 9:00 AM || 0 Comments

I have written before about getting your kids into the kitchen, but I just had to share this picture with the world. That's me, the bearded one on left....

8" Omelette by Simply Calphalon

January 10, 2006 1:00 PM || 0 Comments

Simply Calphalon makes this wonderful line of hard-anodized non-stick products that we have at least three of at home. Our latest is the 8-inch Omelette pan. I've secretly been hoping...

Hot Sauce Exposed

January 9, 2006 11:15 AM || 0 Comments

As I was getting my ultimate cheeseburger at Jack in the Box Thursday afternoon, I stopped off at the condiment bar to pick up some ketchup. Before the tiny packets...

Tropical Rice

January 7, 2006 9:09 PM || 0 Comments

I grilled some Beef and Pineapple Kabobs tonight and needed a light and tasty side dish to go with them. Did you know that you can find any recipe on...

What in the Heck? #9

January 6, 2006 8:20 AM || 0 Comments

Just what in the heck is this thing? It sure looks fancy, but the actual purpose of this shiny new object may be elusive to you. I'm not going...

The Bloggies

January 5, 2006 1:32 PM || 0 Comments

One thing that I have been secretly working towards this past year is, of course, great content for Men in Aprons, but all of that in the hopes that I...

Onion Dip

January 5, 2006 8:08 AM || 0 Comments

This is a repeat of an entry I posted a year ago with a slight twist. TheWife and I made this last night while recording an episode of the Men...

Manly Men

January 4, 2006 4:34 PM || 0 Comments

This doesn't have much to do with cooking .... or does it? My new favorite site is called Arthur's Hall. It's a blog for the ages, one to praise and...

Men in Aprons - The Comic, part 2

January 3, 2006 9:48 AM || 0 Comments

The latest edition of the Men in Aprons Comic is now available....

Let's Get It Started!

January 1, 2006 8:35 AM || 0 Comments

Happy New Year! And welcome to all from Chef Melissa's recipe swap contest. In the southern United States, it is tradition to eat black-eyed peas on New Year's. I am...

MIA's Favorite Foodies

January 1, 2006 7:00 AM || 0 Comments

This is a list of Men in Aprons favorite food site, food & recipe blogs, and food-based podcasts. Alton Brown - Everyone's favorite host of Good Eats. Alton informs, inspires,...

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