So hopefully you�ve been reading my past articles and learning a thing or two. More importantly, I hope that you have been experimenting and making dishes authentically yours. Now that being said, you can only go so far in your studies before you hit a wall. You need to read cookbooks or more importantly watch someone who knows what their doing. Like getting in the kitchen and watching mom or grandma, especially around the holidays. For me being in the kitchen and learning old family recipes is great and besides relatives will be more than happy to keep the cocktails flowing. My grandmother is getting old now and...

Let’s play a little word association; I say football you say…?  You may have said beautiful bouncing cheerleaders, hard hits or like me hot wings. Nothing says fall and football like wings and besides wings support my theory of “the messier to eat the better to taste”.  People say that necessity is the mother of all invention and wings are no exception.  Wings were created as a...

It always seems that I have uninvited guests showing up, whether it be relatives I’ve been ducking or drunken friends late night after the bar.  I’ve learned over the years not to sweat this and not fail at my host duties by keeping a few things on hand...

Classic dishes rule and always give you an option to fall back on.  I have a couple of recipes in my brain box that I like to break out when I want something easy for most people to eat.  I’m sure you have a couple like chicken cutlets, pasta and sauce or a grill cheese made with an iron, who knows?  After a while no thought is needed to what is needed and chances are that you have the ingredients on hand.  I often tell people who want to learn how to cook to learn a couple of dishes that you know you can cook and go from there.  Hears an easy one.