In his novel, Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robins opens the book with high praise for the beet. THE BEET IS THE MOST INTENSE of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through [...]
In my senior year of college, I took a road trip for spring break down to Baton Rouge, LA to visit a friend who was in graduate school at LSU with a fraternity brother named Rick. John (our friend at LSU) was very keen on showing us the local culture and we went to New [...]
I was never a big fan of turkey burgers until I tried changing up the recipe. My big complaint about turkey burgers has always been that they tend to be dry and they are a poor substitution for real hamburgers. A few years ago, I stumbled upon a recipe in a Weight Watchers cookbook that [...]
1 onion chopped 1 green pepper chopped 3-4 celery stalks chopped 2 chicken breasts, sliced into cutlets 3-5 links andouille 2 tablespoons kosher salt 1 tablespoon black pepper 2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon paprika 1/4 teaspoon white pepper 1/2 teaspoon cayenne 1 large (28oz) can diced tomatoes olive oil and butter (you be the [...]