I get a lot of people asking me about salt, sea salt and flavored salt.

First I will start with a definition of salt:
A salt, in chemistry, is any ionic compound composed of cations (positively charged ions) and anions (negative ions) so that the product is neutral (without a net charge). These component ions can be inorganic as well as organic and monatom... Read More

We are making stuffed pork for some upcoming holiday events. We need a lot so we will be making them over the next few days and banking them in the freezer.

We start with a 6 to 8 pound pork loin. No marinate, unseasoned but nicely trimmed.

We aren’t going to &... Read More

Number one…

The humans can no longer entertain the animals and theyve taken to the bottle themselves!

It only seems right to follow up the Game Hen blog with the winter scenes of two days later! And so we will visit the tranquil beauty of the fallow fields, orchards, and vineyards that only one month ago were being harvested for fruits, grains, and grapes for the crush!

The peach trees stand barren after their year’s work. Time to rest and regain for wh... Read More

Well arrived back in town from New Hampshire late Saturday night. Got up Sunday to start catching up on the yard, house, firewood, etc. Daughter driving back to college, son out seeing his girl before she heads back to college, things to do. One of those days when I want a decent dinner after the traveling, but I don’t want to be slaving in the Kitchen for ho... Read More

Well, everyone has such fancy blogs.. and mine have consisted of mostly drunken tirades. So I suppose I should post a real blog one of these days, with recipes and pictures. OK well actually I dont know how to post pictures so that out… someone could comment on that and I could get to it…

regardless.

So I suppose I should post a recipe. Read More

I love holidays.

I hate holidays.

Don’t knock it, this love-hate relationship is normal for most folks, and even if it weren’t, after the past few days I’ve had, you don’t want to mess with me. (When my children were growing up, they lived in mortal fear if the dreaded wooden spoon. Well, I still have several and I am not afraid ... Read More

Warning: This blog may have been influenced by lack of sleep, too much caffeine, a stroked ego, several PBR tall boys or a combination of all of the above.

Well since our DFAC (Dining FACility) isn’t open yet, my company’s cooks (Fox) were sent down to a sister DFAC to lend a hand in their Thanksgiving meal. 1800-0600 shift. I honestly expected to g... Read More

Someone just told me that they couldnt feel right eating something after they had been feeding it… Im not sure where to go with that.. but frankly, to me, as a cook thats actually one of the most beautiful moments possible. when you can consume energy from something you nourished, and derive the most of it you can out of the highest respect for its sacrifice&#... Read More

We finally set foot back into our kitchen recently. While we were in Iraq the Army brought in contractors to take care of a mold problem that had developed in our absence. This was 6 months ago. We returned to see that our kitchen was in total disarray and completely disassembled. Drywall dust and drops of paint could be found on most of our outside line. Where our ti... Read More