by Sean Ludford | Feb 1, 2022 | Food & Eating
You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t like Mexican food, making it the perfect party and game-day food. For years, I have been making this creamy green chicken enchiladas recipe that I adapted from a recipe seen on Rick Bayless’ great show, Mexico – One Plate at a Time. Bayless nicked the recipe from the famous Cafe de Tacuba in Mexico City,...
by Sean Ludford | Jan 4, 2022 | Food & Eating, Spirits
For the Scots, Robert Burns is a national treasure and their greatest poet. Sadly, much of the world is vaguely familiar with his name at best, while most know one of his works, Auld Lang Syne (clue, think New Year’s Eve). Much of his work was composed in the Scots Lowland dialect (a dialect of Gaelic), and even his more “international” works were written...
by Sean Ludford | Nov 14, 2021 | Food & Eating, News Feed
Why do we cook whole turkeys just once or twice a year? A properly done roast turkey is an amazing culinary treat and it’s so incredibly wine friendly, pairing well with most any white and most low-tannin red wines. As it is an infrequent meal our turkey roasting skills can get rusty or vanish altogether. While there are many ways to cook a turkey...
by Sean Ludford | Sep 6, 2021 | Food & Eating
Tea is the world’s most popular beverage next to water and has been consumed for nearly 5,000 years. While tea consumption in the US is slight when compared to Asia, Ireland, and the UK, 80% of all US households have tea in their cabinet. According to the Tea Association of the USA, Americans consumed more than 3.8 billion gallons of tea in 2018. About...
by Sean Ludford | Jun 2, 2020 | Food & Eating
A few years ago we offered a method for cooking baby back ribs. For ribs it’s not as much about the recipe as it is about the technique. The trick is to transform a very tough but very flavorful meat into a simple delicacy that melts in your mouth. In our original “Best Damn Ribs Ever” feature we utilized the sous vide method to create...
by Sean Ludford | Mar 16, 2018 | Food & Eating
Sometimes I just want to break all of the rules and other times in the midst of problem solving the rules get broken. The problem was how do I make Irish breakfast for 12 in my home kitchen without missing the game and losing my mind. There are 10 unique items on the plate of Irish full breakfast. Coordinating it all is no small feat, which...
