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    The Manhattan Project

    I'm a bourbon guy. Manhattans hold a particularly favored position on my list of desired cocktails, so when a buddy at work returned from an upscale DC bar raving about the barrel-aged manhattan he had been served it was time to try something new. We got a small (2 liter) barrel online, put a...
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    Bangers and Basa

    I got a wild hair this weekend and decided to make a bunch of sausage. A friend wanted to take a stab at English Bangers...a kind of breakfast type sausage and I wanted to try kielbasa so I could use my smoker. We made both. We did ten pounds of bangers and 22 pounds of kielbasa (3 pork...
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    Pancetta

    I bought a pork belly today (about 10 lbs) and am planning to make half of it into maple cured bacon and the other half into Pancetta. Ruhlman's (and that other guy's) book calls for juniper berries in the pancetta cure and I haven't found any in my usual haunts today. Should I wait and order...
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    Bang Bang Shrimp

    I found a couple recipes online for a Bang Bang Shrimp clone and tried each. I've ended up taking a little from each, and the following recipe is always a hit around my house. This does fit on a barbecue site because I cook the shrimp in a cast iron frypan ouside on the side burner of my...
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    Aluminum Foil Trick

    Not possessing a matching set of chromosomes, I am genetically programmed to NOT be able to stop and ask for directions, lift a toilet seat, or read clearly printed directions for use on most packaging ("twist top" printed on the cap of a beer bottle being a notable exception). I got an email...

 

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