A quick one today:  this recipe by popular demand! For a recent party, I threw together some baked chicken wings. These things came out so tasty, even I was shocked! Although really, should I be shocked that chicken wings tossed in bacon fat & baked are delicious?? Hardly! I wish I’d gotten a better picture of how they came out [...]

(N.B. Brent wrote this back in November) So let’s give you some background.  I’ve been doing Crossfit-style workouts 5 days a week for 6 months, and have gone Paleo for 2. I just got a job as a traveling consultant, and I’ve been scared to death that my “per diem” was going to take my diet and send it to [...]

I don’t normally make New Year’s resolutions. In the past I’ve made them in order to hold myself accountable to do specific things; get my drivers license, lose 20 lbs…blah, blah, blah. Never works. I didn’t get my drivers licence till I was 27 (10 failed resolutions later) and I go up and down those 20lbs based on what exciting [...]

My compost worms no longer love me. It’s sad, but true. The main diet that my happy little compost worms lived on up till recently was spent grain (the leftover grain from brewing day); that was until I finally decided to try my hand at making my own bread from it, instead of feeding it to the hungry, hungry wormies. [...]

I didn’t hold out a lot of hope for my Christmas Eve dinner. It’s true, that I’m usually a pretty darn good cook, but for these big holiday dinners or family get togethers I’m usually planning the menu a month in advance and swapping and changing out dishes until everything looks just right. This time, I was feeling procrastinatory (no [...]

I love when my friends out in the twitterverse get in contact to let me know they are working on a recipe they’re really proud of ; it’s even better when they are interested in having me post it for them! My friend Rob over at DailyBeerReview writes – if you couldn’t tell by the name – daily beer reviews, so food [...]

As most of you that read this blog are well aware, my family are not here in the USA, they are at home in Australia. This often leads me to a huge bout of homesickness at Christmas. Usually Brent and I keep a low profile on Christmas day, mostly joining the Jewish folk of South Florida at the movies, or [...]

Day #2 in D.C. saw us hit the National Mall starting at the Captiol Building and a walk down to the Lincoln Memorial and back. Amazingly, even though Brent grew up in New Jersey (so close!), he had never done this either! It was quite a walk, probably 6 miles or so, so we’d built up quite the appetite.  Another [...]

So we left the big city D.C behind, and headed out to Rehoboth Beach, DE. Friends had lent us their condo for the week and we were planning on having a relaxing old time, along with a couple of brewery tours thrown in for good measure! First stop after dumping our luggage – Dogfish Head Brewpub! We tried a couple [...]

Today we have a guest post from my delightful (ahem) other half, Brent (aka BrentIndeed on Twitter). Hopefully we are going to make this a more frequent occurrence because he is way funnier than me Here he is talking about his love of all things pickled, and how he “fixed the pickles”! ———————————————————————– When I was 5 years old, I [...]

So, something rare happened in the “Shapiro” household this past weekend; we ran out of meat. This is quite the accomplishment from the couple whose freezer has been called the “meat freezer” by roommates past! Brent actually thought the idea that there was no meat in the fridge/freezer was so absurd that he actually pulled every last vegetable out of [...]

This weekend I was dying for some red meat; we’ve been mostly eating turkey and chicken lately because they are the only meats we’ve been able to find at the local Winn Dixie that are organic/grass fed (Food, Inc destroyed me people). So I gave in and bought the “all natural, certified humane” skirt steak, even though I know those [...]

This was a dinner I threw together the other night, and promised to post the recipe…sorry for the slowness (Sara!). We picked up some organic white Quinoa at Costco a couple of weeks ago (I know – Costco has cool, healthy ingredients? Who knew?) and I’ve been trying to think of things to do with it that don’t involve me [...]

I’m very interested in growing my own edibles, thought you’d like a peek into the (slow) progress my garden is making! Cuban oregano – still researching exactly what I should do with this…It’s so pretty though! It’s kind of succulent-esque. I read somewhere it can be used as a substitute for sage, and tastes like a blend of thyme and [...]

  (Photo via http://www.cornercafeandbrewery.com) It was hot yesterday. Goddamnit hot. Well, it is July in SoFL and what else should I expect? Nothing, that’s what. But, you know what I can do about it? I can drink beer; it makes it hurt less. As you can see in this picture, I’m less than impressed by the heat, and am soooooo [...]