There are good bran muffins and a lot of really bad ones. This is a great bran muffin. It’s sweet, moist and full of rich flavors with out a bunch of unnecessary ingredients like raisins or nuts. It’s no wonder that bran muffins have a bad reputation with all the bad versions out there. I’ve … Continue reading
The New Basics Cookbook by Shelia Lukins and Julee Rosso was a pivotal cookbook twenty-four years ago when it was released. It changed the way we all cooked. Full of recipes that you now see everywhere like the corn popovers featured below, this book taught us that fresh herbs are better, and it’s okay to … Continue reading
For Father’s Day this year, I am celebrating my father’s barbecue lineage by complaining about it. See, I have a barbecue bone to pick with all the people pigeon-holing barbecue styles into finite regions. If I read one more story about Alabama White Barbecue, I think I might swear off mayonnaise entirely. I am sure … Continue reading
This past week marked the anniversary of a truly terrible and bizarre piece of Boston history; the great molasses flood of 1919 when a tsunami of molasses covered two blocks of Boston’s North End with a 15 foot wave of hot, sticky molasses. If you take a look at these pictures from the Boston Globe … Continue reading
This post can now be found at my NEW SITE: Itsnoteasyeatinggreen.com As mentioned last week, I barbecued chicken on the Fourth of July this year. I’ve been dreaming of a barbecued pork tenderloin that I made when I was a lot younger, but I wanted to make it with chicken. So, I took … Continue reading
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