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intheyearofthepig

folklorist, archivist, teacher, line cook, musician, do what I can when I can

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  • Location: born in raised in Austin but moved to North Carolina
  • Favorite foods: just about everything except salmon, don't know why, I like most other flora and fauna of the land and sea. I try not to spread so much hate on other people's food choices

Vegan Pop-up in San Fran for Cinco de Mayo!

I like to chow vegan sometimes, but I don't like SPAM

Bottom Shelf Beer: Lone Star

@texasblues
Lone Star is owned by Pabst (as Will pointed out in the article). It was owned by AB (founded by Adolphus Busch in San Antonio) but was sold long ago and bounced around under a few different companies until it was acquired by Pabst.

Shiner is way overrated. Give me a six pack of Lone Star tall boys any day.

Favorite Indian food cookbook (or blog)?

The best Indian food blog (from the southern end of the subcontinent) I've ever seen is Mahanandi. The diversity of India's regional cuisines makes it difficult to identify just one source but I constantly return to Mahanandi.
http://www.themahanandi.org/
It has been going for years, is encyclopedic in it's content. It has changed over the years and does include a lot of travel photos and gardening and such, but search for recipes and ingredients and you will not be disappointed.
Really phenomenal.

The Best Vegetarian Bean Chili

Good morning,
Nice looking recipe but you might want to remove "chicken broth" from the first procedure.
Thanks!

Pizza Obsessives: Craig Lindberg and His Neapolitan Garage

The Margherita collage is awesome.
Inspiring answers and a great story.
Thanks for sharing.

12 Hot Dogs That Haunt My Dreams

great review Hawk. Looking forward to your 2012 hot dog journey.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Korin Knife

Vegetable cleaver, wooden handle.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Korin Knife

Chinese Vegetable Cleaver #1

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Korin Knife

Wok shop veg cleaver.

Serious Eats Is Five Years Old: Happy Birthday to Us!

solid.

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage, Chicken, and Steaks

Smitty's in Lockhart, TX
Allen & Son's north of Chapel Hill, NC

This Week at Serious Eats World Headquarters

This is pretty exciting. Can't wait for both the pig post and the hot dog posts. I've done two whole pigs NC barbecue style but never a suckling. I'm looking forward to learning how.

Giveaway: Win a Free All-Natural Bell & Evans Turkey from Pat LaFrieda

the Food Lab Gravy

My Pie Monday: Smoky Blue Cheese, BLT, Artichokes, and More!

Thanks @jimmyg. Right back at you. Great pies from everyone as usual.

I should add that the cob oven does not belong to me, but to a good friend of mine, Eddie H. [who also shot these photographs and co-cooked these pies]. I am very lucky he allows me to come over and cook pizza in it. Learn something new with each pie. Can't wait for another try.

That carciofi e limone by @TxCraig1 is a topping combination that I'm definitely keeping for future reference.

What's in Your Turkey Stock?

I agree. Switching to homemade turkey stock about five years ago vastly improved my Thanksgiving cooking.

I changed my technique after reading a Ruhlman turkey stock post a couple years ago to just cooking the poultry parts for an extended period and then adding vegetables at the end. Like you, I pick up some odd turkey parts [wings, necks] and roast them with some rough chop mirepoix and dump all that in a stock pot and put it in the oven on 185 degrees overnight. Next morning add onion, carrots, celery, leek tops, garlic, fresh thyme, fresh bay leaf, sage stems and black peppercorns and bring to just under a simmer for another hour or two.

Home Slice: The Slice Out Hunger Pizza Party

Really good looking pizzas, impressive especially since it was an away game. I did something similar recently at a friend's house for a housewarming, 15 pizzas over about 6 hours, using a cobb oven for just the second time. Your pizzas look better than mine did.

Use Popeye's Chicken Nuggets to Make Awesome Homemade Chinese-American Food

@daryck

Well done. Brilliant idea! Glad you showed up.

@Kenji
Great read as usual. I've been making a lot of great pizza lately, having learned from your articles. Looking forward to the book.

Cook the Book: 'The Mozza Cookbook'

Eating leftover pasta with the rest of the line and the dishwashers after breaking our restaurant's record (almost doubled!) for covers in a single night. Good times.

NYC: Get Great Sliders at Bill's Bar and Burger

I also look forward to more of Nick Solares's reviews, always well researched and solid criticism. Good news.

Somewhat embarrassingly, I also look forward to simon's nitpicking said reviews over semantics.

Cook the Book: 'Ruhlman's Twenty'

transfer of energy

Cook the Book: 'The Homesick Texan Cookbook'

Cooking Issues, The Gurgling Cod, Ruhlman, Viet World Kitchen
Homesick Texan always been a favorite too.

What Are Your Favorite Road Trip-Worthy Burgers?

Slick's burger looks awesome.

Hot Dogs.....Skin or Skinless?

Natural casing makes for a far the superior dog. Even though I love my southern hot dogs, I buy Zweigel's at the store.

Weeping Radish here in NC makes some badass dogs too.
http://www.weepingradish.com/

Chapel Hill barbecue joint, The Pig, is also making dogs and selling them from a cart at the farmer's market, but I haven't been able to bring myself to order one before 11AM

Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Nova Schin Brazilian Lager

Nice review. Never seen it though.

Agree with Garvey though about price, $9.99 means some mid-range stuff, maybe some Tecate, Modelo, or Yeungling. 12-pack of Schlitz-just a kiss of the hops-still available for $5.99 pretty regular around here, PBR and High Life $6.99.

Web site problems in Chrome

empty your cache and it will work again.
I had the same problem and I am also on 10.6.7.
Emptied cache and history and the sight looked right again.

Vegan recommendations in NYC. Please. Thanks.

Looking for NYC vegan recommendations: strictly vegan restaurant or any place that can be vegan friendly, also something veg. in Chinatown or other veg. ethnic cuisine (really, anything). Go crazy, we saved for a good meal, but we (well I) am also poor and love cheap dives. Please don't respond with vegan bashing. My girlfriend is vegan, she is great. I work as a cook, expound on wonders of duck cracklins, etc, and she kisses me and I love to cook vegan as much smoking pork shoulders.

Eggs in a Hole + Grilled Cheese = Grilled Cheese Eggsplosion!

Eggs in a Hole + Grilled Cheese = Grilled Cheese Eggsplosion! View Slideshow

Like the infamous Fatty Melt (that's a burger made with two grilled cheese sandwiches as a bun, the brainchild of our own Adam Kuban), the Grilled Cheese Eggsplosion is a hybrid sandwich, combining elements from two or more sources into a single glorious dish. In this case, it's a simple grilled cheese sandwich between two eggs-in-a-hole (or bullseye eggs, eggs-in-a-basket, whatever you want to call it) replacing the plain old bread. More

This Week in Eating Out

This Week in Eating Out

Three Square Meals: After reporting on the deliciousness that is Locanda Verde's breakfast, Ed Levine happily goes back for lunch and dinner. Pizza by Wrigley's: Daniel Zemans enjoys a taste of Roman-style pizza at Pizza Rustica, a cozy pizzeria in the shadow of Wrigley Field. Fusion That Breaks All the Rules: The beef and lemongrass salad at Han 202 in Chicago is one of Michael Nagrant's favorite dishes this year. South African Surprise: Damon Gambuto explores the South African barbecue tradition at Springbok Bar & Grill in Van Nuys, CA and finds that he loves the fries, but the monkey gland sauce disappoints.... More