Get Your Grill On

Grilled Cheese
…. not talking the one you are thinking of! This is a delicious Cypriot cheese – Halloumi, grilled and served as an appetizer or a vegetarian main course. Halloumi is available at Middle Eastern shops and more recently has been found at mainstream grocery stores. It is found in sealed plastic wrapping […]

As you can see, we don’t mess about with the quality of our meat in Australia. If it’s good, it must be famous. If it’s hard to sell, it just might be famous too.

Here’s a quick quiz…can anyone name the odd meat out, and why? There are two possible answers, kudos to anyone who gets […]

My nephew went fishing a couple of weeks ago and landed a whopper, a 3.5 kg salmon. He was never going to miss, fishing as he was in a trout and salmon farm at Buxton. Not only did the fish bite hard at his bait, it also bit hard at his parents wallet, costing a […]

No, no, no, it’s not what you think! - You pigs!

Pass the Pigs is a great little game using pigs as dice. This very portable “beer & pretzels” game comes as a pocket travel case containing 2 pig dice, two pencils and a scoring booklet that also includes the scoring table. The pigs are actual […]

It’s already April and I’m still making my way through last month’s magazines. The March Men’s Health had a nice little feature with advice from some of Food Network personalities, and I was glad to see Mario Batali included. Two of Mario’s recommendations were familiar mantras from the Molto Mario shows: establish good relationships with […]

As a kid growing up, my family had a Sunday tradition after church of having pastrami sandwiches after church. I think that’s where my love of pastrami began, and how disappointed I have become over the years trying to find good, thick cut stripes of pastrami like my mother used to get from the local […]

Now I’ve seen everything. The manufacturer Jakks has a series of action figures based on the Rocky movie series starring Sylvester Stallone.
Not only are there multiple versions of Rocky, in different outfits and in various degrees of punch drunkenness, but there are also figures of brother-in-law Paulie, trainer Mickey, rival-turned-pal Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang (Mr. […]

For those of you who enjoyed the grilled shrimp and roasted oysters that I posted last week, here is some more shellfish action for you. This dish was actually one of those “Plan B” meals that sometimes happen when things don’t go quite the way you plan.
My original intent was to cook the roasted oysters […]

If you’ve done any reading about grilling, you’ve likely heard of building a 3 zone fire. It sounds silly in a way… My dad never built a 3 zone fire! He piled up charcoal briquettes, poured on the lighter fluid and ignited the fireball that became hot coals!
Today’s grilling is a bit different. […]

I’m itching to dust off my WSM and do some outdoor cooking, but in the suburbs of Boston, that’s not a possibility right now. Cold weather in March doesn’t mean that I can’t start working toward what will hit the smoker in April.
I’ve been flipping through some of my favorite cookbooks, looking for things I’d […]