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Carnival of the Recipes #102

July 30, 2006 10:06 PM || 1 Comments

Welcome to the 103rd edition of the Carnival of the Recipes. My name is Adam, and I'll be your ringmaster for this weekend. Got started a little bit late this...

MIA Dry Rub

July 30, 2006 1:17 PM || 0 Comments

I was looking to make a dry rub for pork that wasn't so sweet and spicy. I needed a nice good rub that had salty and slightly tangy flavors. I...

Rainbow Kebabs

July 30, 2006 9:49 AM || 1 Comments

This is more of a picture share than anything else. The mother-in-law was craving kebabs, so my wife pimped me out to them and forced me to grill. Please note...

Items You Must Have in Your Kitchen

July 28, 2006 9:50 AM || 3 Comments

Every kitchen must have food. Blah blah blah. That's understood. But these items are ones that I think you should have at all times to facilitate better food preparation. I'm...

Hell's Kitchen, The Comic #1

July 28, 2006 8:48 AM || 0 Comments

Sometimes things get so serious here on Men in Aprons, I forget that this is supposed to be fun. What with trolls and j-holes, spammers, and food snobs, it's easy...

Cooking For US Launches User Submission Feature

July 28, 2006 8:39 AM || 1 Comments

The new food website, Cooking For US has launched it's new user submission functionality. You can now log, create an account, and submit your own recipes for people to...

Basic Sweet Pizelles

July 27, 2006 1:34 PM || 5 Comments

My family and I are selling our house right now, which has prompted us to clean everything. This includes the pantry, where our Pizelle maker resides. TheWife and I...

What has blogging BROUGHT me?

July 26, 2006 11:47 AM || 2 Comments

Last week, Darren at ProBlogger.net asked a question of us readers: What has blogging bought you? Plenty of folks answered stuff, toys, electronics, and vacations. Too bad that Men in...

Carnival of the Grill Mentioned by Food and Wine (sort of)

July 25, 2006 9:48 PM || 4 Comments

FoodandWine.com has mentioned Carnival of the Gril by way of Something So Clever. OK, the link actually goes to Alicat, but I'll take all the bleed off traffic I can...

How Do You Make Your Pancakes?

July 25, 2006 3:36 PM || 2 Comments

Such a simple question, yet such a large outpouring of response over the pancakes. Americans do love to eat pancakes; it's the quintessential breakfast food in my opinion. I'll let...

Food Dictionary: Gratin

July 21, 2006 2:36 PM || 1 Comments

After making and writing about creamy potatoes gratin, I got to thinking about the word "gratin." I kept wondering if the word was overused, misused, or just plain misunderstood. I...

Nuggets 7/21/06

July 21, 2006 10:05 AM || 1 Comments

If you haven't checked out the Food Blog Blog, please do. I've been having a lot of fun browsing through the archives of food blogs. There's some really great stuff...

Quinoa: Supergrain of the Future

July 20, 2006 7:06 PM || 1 Comments

TheWife got on a "weird food" binge at the store yesterday, and brought home a cool new food. It's called Quinoa (keen-WAH). It's a grain, kind of like cous-cous or...

Creamy Potatoes Gratin

July 20, 2006 10:26 AM || 2 Comments

It's now time for another entry into the Kitchen Sense category. All of these recipes come straight from the new cookbook called Kitchen Sense by Mitchell Davis. I had...

Nando's Chicken with Apricot Sauce

July 19, 2006 2:42 PM || 1 Comments

I had the pleasure of trying out and reviewing a couple of new cooking/grilling sauces from Nando's. This one is called Sweet Apricot Cooking and Grilling Sauce. The whole...

Senseo Coffee Pods: Dark Roast

July 19, 2006 12:37 PM || 0 Comments

After finally being able to try the Senseo Dark Roast Coffee Pods, I can say in good conscience that it is excellent and it is my favorite. That and the...

Hell's Kitchen, a Review

July 19, 2006 8:30 AM || 4 Comments

I have stated in the past that I think Hell's Kitchen is one of the worst food shows on TV, and I stand firm on that opinion. After having watched...

Fried Twinkies

July 18, 2006 12:43 PM || 4 Comments

OK, I need to apologize right quick. In my efforts to put this post on the web, I neglected to tell you what I thought of the fried twinkie....

What is Your Preferred Grilling Method?

July 17, 2006 8:26 AM || 1 Comments

Got an interesting email from a reader regarding the previous week's poll about gender equality in the kitchen. The reader said that he didn't vote as the it might skew...

Camarones Del Diablo

July 16, 2006 2:37 PM || 3 Comments

This is my easy-to-make version of Shrimp Diablo. I like a couple of things about this recipe. Number one, I finally got back into the swing of creation and...

Places: Round Rock Donuts

July 14, 2006 9:54 PM || 5 Comments

At the risk of sounding like a cliche, I'm a man and I love donuts. Homer Simpson would be proud, I'm sure. I cannot eat Krispy Kremes, for the make...

Nuggets 7/14/06

July 14, 2006 8:55 AM || 1 Comments

My latest piece for Cooking for US is up. It's all about challenging yourself this Labor Day. In the category of "I wish I had thought of it first" comes...

5 Tips For Getting Beyond a Better Burger

July 13, 2006 9:14 PM || 0 Comments

After recently announcing the arrival of the Carnival of the Grill, the idea of grilling as it can apply to everyone has been on my mind lately. Not to mention...

What in the Heck? #16

July 12, 2006 4:54 PM || 1 Comments

And we have a winner! Geneve of Geneve's Kitchen answered correctly that this contraption roasts a pig, and yes, it is called a chinese box. Congratulations! You win a...

What in the Heck? Contest Regulations

July 12, 2006 3:19 PM || 0 Comments

The following are the rules for Men in Aprons' What in the Heck? Contest sponsored by Big Daddy Jakes Creative Pepper Products. 1. Contest Winner must not have won...

Carnival of the Grill

July 11, 2006 2:09 PM || 4 Comments

Hello and welcome to the Carnival of the Grill Homepage. If you have never heard of a blog carnival before, you're probably not alone. Go to BlogCarnival.com to find out...

Food Dictionary: Shish-Kebabs

July 11, 2006 10:34 AM || 0 Comments

Yesterday, I posted my recipe forChicken Kabobs with Spicy Peanut Sauce. This, of course, got me to thinking about the work 'kabob.' As it turns out, I've been spelling it...

Chicken Kabobs with Peanut Sauce

July 10, 2006 9:19 AM || 5 Comments

TheWife has been pestering me to make kabobs for weeks now, and I finally gave in to the pressure. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that kabobs...

Who Cooks in Your Household?

July 9, 2006 9:40 AM || 2 Comments

I feel like I've talked about this subject many times before. I wrote about a similar subject for one of my articles at Cooking for US. When I was growing...

Nuggets 7/7/06

July 7, 2006 6:49 AM || 1 Comments

A new celebrity chef blog has hit the blogosphere and I think it has the potential to dominate. TVFoodFan.com has the right ideas, the right information, and nice concise posts....

Food's Most Misused Word

July 6, 2006 9:06 AM || 4 Comments

Food's most misused word is Gourmet. Not only is it misused, it is overused. As Americans, we think of Gourmet food as something prepared by a 5-star chef, or at...

How To Cream Butter and Sugar

July 6, 2006 8:49 AM || 0 Comments

So many yummy baking recipes tell you to start with creaming the butter and sugar together. But, they never tell you how to cream butter and sugar (hereafter called...

Senseo Coffee Pods

July 5, 2006 9:34 AM || 1 Comments

Last week, I brought to you my review of the Senseo Single Serve Coffee Machine. Purposefully, I did not talk about the coffee pods, because the is a completely separate...

Banana Pecan Bread

July 3, 2006 2:44 PM || 5 Comments

Publisher's Note: Everyone please welcome TheWife to the stage. This is her very first entry on Men in Aprons, and hopefully not the last. She's actually been doing some proofreading...

N-Sider: Nintendo Embraces Cooking

July 3, 2006 11:14 AM || 0 Comments

I had a Nintendo GameBoy when I was in high school. It was the first thing I bought with my first paycheck from my first job at the grocery store....

Are You a Food Blogger?

July 3, 2006 10:30 AM || 1 Comments

The latest Men in Aprons Poll is over. I had been wondering about the nature of my readership, and it turns out I have about a half food bloggers, half...

Kitchen Sense: Not a Picture Book

July 2, 2006 10:58 AM || 1 Comments

Kitchen Sense doesn't know what kind of book it wants to be. Either that, or it wants to be something that the editors just couldn't do. Is it a collection...

Pepper Steak

July 1, 2006 9:16 AM || 3 Comments

This is my next submission in a series of recipes that I am making from the new cookbook Kitchen Sense, by Mitchell Davis. Check the first one, Cranberry Johnnycakes, which...

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