Hawaiian Style Spare Ribs

I am a big fan of ribs and this is a quick and simple way to have delicious great tasting ribs! This is a great recipe for beginners and everyone will enjoy them. I hope you enjoy them!

Hawaiian Style Spare Ribs

Tuna Macaroni Salad

This is a favorite pasta salad of mine and I particularly enjoy it with barbeque. I highly recommend this salad with barbeque ribs, baked beans, and corn on the cob. I hope you enjoy this salad as much as I do.

Tuna Macaroni Salad

Broiled Sesame Salmon

I got a great deal on Salmon at the store the other day and had a taste for something asian so I pulled this dish together. It is super easy a great dish for beginners and super flavorful. It also a great way to get health fish into non-fish eaters i.e. those who claim not to like the taste of fish will love this.

Broiled Sesame Salmon 

Chicken, Bacon & Pineapple Kabobs

I love the spring because it is grillin` time. I love the smell of charing flesh over a fire, steak, chicken, ribs, burgers, or hot dogs. I love them all. I had a serious craving for some kabobs and went for broke. Here is a great recipe for some kabobs. I did mine a little different today to show that the recipe is just a guide and doesn't have to be followed to the letter. Enjoy!

Chicken, Bacon & Pineapple Kabobs

Beer Brats with Caramelized Onions

Spring is in the air so it must be grill time!! I had a taste for sausages so sausages it is for dinner. I love sausages or as Anthony Bourdain would say “Meat in tube form!” This recipe can be done either in a pan on the stovetop or on the grill. I highly recommend the grill. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. This recipe is my new book available on Amazon.

Brats on the Grill

Coconut Curry Chicken w/ Basmati Rice

This is one of Moms favorite comfort food dishes as she is a lover of Indian food. Mom has been a little stressed the last few days, so the is no better way to help heal someone then to cook some comfort food with love! This is a simple easy to prepare dish that doesn't require a trip to a specialty store. All the ingredients in this recipe are in your local grocery store. I hope you enjoy this dish as much as Mom.

Coconut Curry Chicken w/ Basmati Rice

Mad Man Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

This is bread has a nice sweetness along with a nice flavor from the oats and whole wheat. This has one of those perfect combinations to bring instantaneous comfort when eaten. Warm from the oven a slice of this bread with some sweet butter and all your cares will melt away. Lets make some bread.

Molasses & Oats Whole Wheat Bread

Southern Style Bacon Wrapped Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potatoes Part 1

This is a great dinner for any day of the week and spectacular for the weekends. This is a great way to make a roasted chicken taste even better. Plus the leftover makes great soup and an unbelievable chicken salad.

The first part of this great dish is brining the chicken to help the chicken stay moist, juicy and chicken-licious good! If you have not brined meat in the past, now is the time to try. I know some people think it will make the chicken salty, but it won't. It will make your chicken taste great! Let's brine some chicken!

Brine for Chicken

Red Beans & Rice

I am really missing the south so I need an injection of southern comfort food. One of my favorite southern comfort foods is Red Beans & Rice, yum yum for the tum tum! The herbs and seasonings form a perfect combination that bring on instant comfort that heals the mind body and spirit. I'm hungry so let make some Red Beans & Rice!

Red Beans & Rice

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15 bean Chicken & Chorizo Soup

I am a huge lover of beans and 15 bean soup is a favorite of mine. The addition of chicken and chorizo makes it that much better. The bean lovers in your family really enjoy a bowl of this delicious soup. The combination of the beans, the spice of the sausage, and the chicken flavor along with the spices will induce comfort almost immediately. I hope you enjoy the soup as much as I do.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

I had the baking bug today and had a taste for bread. I developed this recipe this afternoon and if I do say so myself it turned out to be very good. It has a nice sweet nutty flavor with a nice grainy texture to complete the all around flavor experience. This is a variation of J's Oatmeal Bread that can be found here. This is a good bread for toast, french toast, and great for any kind of nut butter and fruit spread sandwich, like peanut butter and jelly, or almond butter and jam. Enough gabbing and lets make some bread.

5 Grain Blackstrap Bread

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Southern Classics

ADD TO CART

• Buttermilk Biscuits & Sawmill Gravy
• Charleston Shrimp & Grits
• Southern Style BBQ Ribs
• Maple Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Creole Classics

• Shrimp Creole
• Crawfish Etoufee
• Red Beans & Rice
• Shrimp Gumbo

Italian Favorites

• Seafood Bavette
• Italian Sausage Sandwich with Onions and Peppers
• Porcini & Sausage with Campanelle
• Bruschetta

Cooking For Friends

If you've been reading the blog you'll know I'm in the northeast looking for work and have had to leave my home in Augusta, GA. I have been writing this blog to help keep my sanity and keep my spirits up. Well, I've been doing a lot of comfort food cooking for the blog, the cook book I just published, but most of all for me.

As I have been going through these recipes and doing all this cooking. I remember all the great times I had cooking many of these dishes for my friends in Augusta, GA. Having cook outs with Becks, having great conversations about blues music with Marion (Who happens to be a walking encyclopedia on the subject). Spend great times at Tire City Potters discussing art with all the incredibly talented artists. Having drinks at bee knees with Rachel & Kelly. Tom with dry british wit and chiggy attitude, stephanie, maddie, sadie, ben, jonathan, corey, shashir and his beautiful family, the list is long.

I really have some great friends that I miss so dearly and love so much. I have had many great times cooking for them, with them, and them feeding me. It is times like these that remind me of what a powerful combination that love, food, and friendship makes. How it can transform people, places and events. I wish everybody on the planet could experience the love I have. It might be a much better place, less fear, less hate, less judgment, and more treating people as they should be for who they are.

I hope a day comes, and comes soon that I will have a job and home again so I can go see my dear friends once again and experience the love they give the world.

I love you all!!