Breaking Down The Bird

I’ve written about how much fun it is to learn new cooking techniques, and I’ve even done a ‘how to’ post about the simplicity of halving a chicken for recipes like pollo al mattone. Once again inspired by a meal I’m cooking tonight, which involves (you guessed it) half chickens, I felt compelled to review. […]

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Burgers on the 4th

Why not?  I love a nice burger, myself, without the bun, of course! But how do you know which ground meat is actually the best?  And, for that matter, what’s actually in there? Not unlike a hot dog or a sausage, unless you’re sure of the source, there really could be anything in there, from […]

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The Health Benefits of…Salad Dressing?

Wait a minute.  Salad dressing?  Thinking that was something that had to be kicked to the curb when you did your Paleo kitchen clean out? Not necessarily. Certainly, many of the commercially prepared varieties are not something we’d want to consume; often laden with corn syrup, all sorts of unhealthy oils ranging from partially hydrogenated […]

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