Cooking a Pork Rib Roast

A few weekends ago I roasted a Pork Rib Roast with a friend of mine. Neither one of use had ever eaten one.. let alone cooked one, so it was a bit of an adventure. He and I both enjoy cooking though so we gathered family and his pork reluctant girlfriend and prepared a feast. I’ve included a good number of images that are at the bottom of the post. I think I’ve posted information throughout this post that should explain them all…

The first step was to acquire the hunk of beast. I headed out to The Meat House the night before so see what they could do.… Click here to read more!

Cooking: No Knead Bread

I’m a bit of a bread guy. I enjoy a nice hearty loaf of crusty bread and I enjoy baking bread when I have the time. There is nothing like quality bread fresh from the oven. The weather up here in the northeast is starting to cool down and I’ve been able to fire up the oven without fear of spontaneously combusting so I’ve been on a bit of a baking frenzy as of late. While I was surfing the web yesterday I came across a blog post for No Knead Bread and I was intrigued. Tasty bread… little effort? Sounded like just the thing for me this weekend so I’ve decided to give it a whirl.… Click here to read more!

Cooking: Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Over the past few years I have been working on creating the ultimate chocolate chip cookies. I’ve tried a lot of recipes and have finally decided on a modified version of a version based on the original Toll House Recipe. I’m a big fan of Alton Brown and one of his shows, Good Eats. In an episode called Thee Chips for Sister Martha he covered three cookie recipes the one I liked the best was The Chewy. It wasn’t bad but it wasn’t what I was looking for. I did a bit of research into good cookies (Read: I ate a lot of cookies and talked to people who made them) and learned a number of things.… Click here to read more!