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Wild shrimp caught locally, brined and boiled in beer, with our family special sauce on the side. Special sauce = combo of mayo, horseradish, mustard, catsup, sriracha, worcestershire, fish sauce, honey and lemon. Different every time but just as good, because nobody measures and just goes by...

Beef ribs braised in Guinness and a shot of Bushmills; roasted red potatoes with cabbage and a few brussels sprouts mixed in. Saving my energy to do some colcannon and corned beef this weekend.

Baked ham, macaroni and 3-cheddar cheese, green beans, with a California Riesling. Just me and the man this year, we had early Christmas yesterday with family. Chocolate-oatmeal and sugar cookies from my DIL for dessert!

Warning - language! But pretty dang funny. The 2014 Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog

In my part of the southern US, we call it worster-Shire. Emphasis on the second syllable. Eat it on steak, add it to hamburger meat before cooking, in stews (especially a good shake into a Brunswick Stew) and mostly in Bloody Marys.

I have added some of those little eye of round to beef short ribs that I've braised to add more meat to the mix...it was good!

I've cooked a lot of squirrel. Don't hunt them like I used to, getting soft in my dotage, but I still get donations from the members of my family who still hunt. Squirrel and rice - cooked just like you'd do chicken and rice, or cutting them in quarters and frying them is how we mostly did it...

Cooking is good therapy. Whenever I'm mad, I can go chop something up. Lose a lot of aggression that way. While I grew up cooking what my mother and grandmothers did, I've experimented and learned a lot about cultures outside of the southern US by using recipes, talking with people from...

Probably spent too much, but I love these things: Amazon.com: Proteak Teak Cutting Board Rectangle 16-by-12-by-2-Inch with Juice Canal, End Grain: Kitchen & Dining Amazon.com: Proteak Teak Cutting Board Circle 12-by-1-Inch Edge Grain: Kitchen & Dining Hit them with a little mineral oil once a...

I had to watch play-by-play on my phone as I had a late work meeting. Hate I missed it. Those last ten minutes would have been all I really had to see. As you may have deduced, folks over here have yet to discover the joys of the round ball football. My city hosted the USA-Nigeria friendly...

Sticking with our World Cup dinners...tonight some selections from South Korea from Beyond Kimchee | Korean food blog, Korean recipes, Asian recipes; Easy Spicy Korean Pork for Dummies (good fit!) and Pan-Fried Potatoes with Green Beans. It's fun to search for recipes from the different...

I'm still on task of doing World Cup Dinners every night. It's fun to try to figure out what to make to honor the various cuisines with what I have on hand. Taking a little adustment, but so far we've done Brazil, Italy, Argentina, USA (well, that one was easy) and tonight, South Korea!

To honor Brazil's win today in World Cup action, going to assemble Bauru sandwiches - french bread, filled with roast beef, tomatoes, pickles and mozzarella cheese, along with some Brazillian-style black beans with chorizo and sausage.

Glass of water, a big one. Take a deep breath. Drink the water with small swallows, holding your breath, until you have to breathe. Has worked for me 100%. My granny showed me this, and it always works - maybe psychosomatic, but the results the same!

I don't care to eat out much; as many of you have said, it's only for things I can't or don't want to do myself. When I do, I tend to splurge and go to places I know are excellent in the ingredients, preparation and presentation. Even then, I spend most of the meal reverse engineering the...