cooking

So you've bagged your deer and you find yourself with a freezer full of venison.  What do you do with all this meat?  This is one of my favorite easy recipe for venison and it turns out great every time.

We were invited this weekend to a fish fry and a friend's place.  They were doing large a.  mounts of fish, but each filet that came out tasted fantastic.  It was probably the best fish I've ever had.  I didn't need tartar sauce, lemon, butter, or anything.  So I watched the chef and learned what made it so good!

Add one more time to the list where I couldn't catch enough fish for dinner.   It's actually happened to the same friend and I three times now.  We promised we will never plan on it again, as it's always been the worse fishing.  We went out to a lake where we have always walked away with fish, and this time we didn't walk away with any keepers.  But that's ok!  We planned a back up.  Salmon pattie

I grew up with a Weber grill.   It's the classic charcoal grill that has been around for decades.  People love them, and I had a hand me down Weber grill that finally broke down a few years back.  As a wedding gift, we got a gas grill.  It did it's job for about 2 years, before it crapped out as well.  It was time to go back the classic, so I started shopping around.  I found myself zeroing in on

This is pure genius!! This guy travels with a few things to prepare food but, for the most part, uses things found in a hotel room to make meals. In this episode, he puts together a steak dinner with salad, noodles, veggies, and a medium rare steak with special sauce.

My wife bought some green peppers from the grocery store the other day.  I only needed one of them to cook with, so the other just sat on the counter overnight.  The next day it was yellowish red!  What happened?  I asked our resident foodie at work Steve if he knew.  Here's what I learned.

I've been pan frying fish in cooking oil for years.  I recently went on a guided fishing trip to Rainy Lake and the guide taught us this little secret.  It really makes a difference in the taste!

One of my favorite foods is Lasagna. In fact, just the other day I had a conversation about the best ways to prepare and eat Lasagna. You have to have a ton of cheese on it, and it's always better the next day. If you like lasagna like I do, you will love this recipe.

While we were filming Q an A Buffet, I had the opportunity to watch a Pizza being made, which I thought was kind of interesting. I know how to make a Pizza but to watch someone that does it for a living was quite fun.

I bought my first bottle of olive oil while on vacation in Door County, WI.  I marinated, cooked and even drizzled it right from the bottle to my salad, absolutely loved the flavor!  I was afraid I was going to have have it shipped to my home and end up paying a huge shipping fee.  I was THRILLED to find the Rustic Olive in Duluth's Canal Park!

My time to cook, bake and grill is always limited.  It's spaghetti, ramen, pizza or a salad at our house most of the time.  When I do find myself with an evening to cook a nice meal I head to the grocery store and try to find something we don't get very often.  There's always a nice selection of raw meat to choose from in the meat section of our local grocery stores, but how do I prepare it? Read

We have a friend who is vegan.  When I asked what that meant, he said he doesn't eat anything with a face.  I guess that's true, but I had been hoping for a more technical answer.  I wanted to know the difference between vegan and vegetarian.  I don't know if I could do it, but I've heard of so many health benefits, I thought I'd research it and even borrowed a vegan cookbook to see if anything so