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I grew up in Vermont and loved making syrup at home from our own trees. using it to cure salmon and bacon is great. reducing it and pouring it over apple turnovers makes it candy onto the puff pastry. my grandfather always puts maple syrup in his baked beans, from beans he grows in his garden.

Bread and Cheese. two best foods ever, and its protien, fat, and carbs.

I love just grazing on stuff in the summer. chips, good salsa and guacamole is perfect in the summer. My mom used to always get some really nice smoked salmon in the summer, and we would just have that for dinner with a few different crackers and toppings, like creamcheese, onions, radishes, cucumbers...come to think of it, this is a great way to highlight all the great stuff at the farmers market right now!!

spicy fried chicken and beer.

I grew up in Vermont with my yard full of apple and maple trees. We tapped all of the trees and made syrup and candy every spring. the old fashioned way, with a spigot and a metal bucket, not the fancy plastic bags and tubes they use now.

What about burgers? I think different stuff on your cheeseburger is totally ok, but when you start putting like...i dont know, figs and arugala on a cheeseburger....and all these celebrity chefs are opening theme burger places, which I'm sure have some great burgers, but I think people take it too far.

In the door of my dorm room mini fridge, I have 1 bottle of beer, 1 coleman bottle filled with milk snuck from the cafeteria (I aint payin fo that sh**) and one bottle of sriratcha sauce.

Its been in for 5 hours now and DAMN it smells good! My dogs haven't left the smoker since they saw me put the meat in this morning :)

The rub has no salt, I mixed it up myself, so it shouldn't be too salty.

thanks for the info, Remander!

p.s here is a picture of my (stepdads...) smoker
http://www.biggreenegg.com/ ITS AWSOME

I love this book!! I grew up in Vermont, and my dad still lives there. I got it for him for Christmas one year, and he says its his favorite cookbook.

When we lived there we had apple trees, maple trees, (we made syrup) and a huge garden. I miss it so much.

chubby hubby has always been my favorite flavor. I grew up in vermont, and when I moved to louisiana I was so disappointed to find that by the time it gets down here, the pretzels aren't crispy anymore.

I usually dont care for food with a political agenda, but ben and jerry's is an exception. I love them anyways.

Toast two poptarts, preferably a fruit flavor, and spread them with peanut butter. make sure you have lots of milk or you could clog your esophagus.

Im about to be 20, but I decided to go to culinary school when I was 16. I go to the John Folse Culinary Institute in Thibodaux, LA currently working towards my bachelors, learning so much!

If you want to enjoy food with your friends more often, I would suggest either going to get cheap, good food like burgers or something, or cook something awesome for dinner and invite them over for a movie or nintendo or something. Thats what I always did.