If there is a starch that rules the American table, it is the potato. They go with almost any main dish, and are the very picture of versatility—you can, as Master Samwise puts it, “boil ’em, mash ’em, stick ’em in a stew.” If you’ve followed this blog for long, you already know about our…
One of the most classic dinners for the winter holidays is a perfectly cooked prime rib roast. It wows your holiday guests and makes the family happy, too. What’s not to love: that delicious browned crust, the rosy-pink, tender interior flecked with fat and brimming with juiciness. Mmmmm. And then there are those few bites…
If there is one cut of meat that straight-up looks good, that cut is the tomahawk steak. It has steadily gained popularity, especially in the age of food-selfies. What better for your Instagram than a picture of you holding a giant piece of savory, crusty-seasoned beef on a bone? But there is more to the…
Have you ever had porchetta? You know, the classic Italian dish that dates back to Roman times, that might well have been eaten by Roman Emperors? The one where you wrap a pork belly around a stuffed pork loin and roast it until the skin crisps into pork crackling? You’ve never had it? Boy, are…
Brisket is meat alchemy. You take a tough, useless cut of meat full of iron-like connective tissue and turn it into smooth, soft, smoky, savory meat pudding! But, if there’s anything to dislike about brisket, it has to be that it takes seemingly forever to cook. 12 hours? 18 hours?!? There’s no way to cook…
This may not come as a surprise, but Canadian bacon is not called Canadian bacon in Canada. Oh, and it is not a round, tube-shaped ham. Far from the floppy, soggy ham you’ve seen strewn about on pizza, or unjustly represented by the weird, perfectly circular meat slices on eggs Benedict, real Canadian bacon—and even…