Jul 28, 2025 | Food, Lagniappe
Lagniappe BBQ is Not a VerbBourbon Barbecue RibsBuzz Magazines Recipe TroveCajun SeasoningChurch StuffCooking LinksDeep South Dishes (And a link to the Southern Rubin)Dry MilkFool-Proof Boiled EggsFool-Proof Steamed EggsHome-made Breakfast SausageHow Hot Is That...
Apr 1, 2025 | Food, Lagniappe
Bourbon Barbecue Ribs Ingredients 1 (12-oz.) bottle lager beer or ale½ cup apple cider vinegar1½ tsp. kosher salt½ cup bourbon, divided1 cup ketchup½ cup reduced-sodium soy sauce½ cup honey2 garlic cloves, crushed1½ Tbsp. barbecue spice rub½ tsp. freshly ground black...
Mar 20, 2025 | Health, Lagniappe
From AARP The Mind Diet As members of AARP, we read their newsletter which often addresses matters of health, diet, life-style, etc. We’ve probably all heard of the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, created to lower blood pressure). Now there is the...
Dec 29, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe
Fool-Proof Steamed Eggs Special thanks to America’s Test Kitchen for this take on steaming eggs to a hard-boil. Bring one inch water to a rolling boil in a pot suitable for steaming. Place eggs in steamer basket and the basket into the pot so that the eggs are...
Apr 5, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe
Buzz Magazines Recipe Trove When we lived in Houston, we got The Bellaire Buzz Magazine once a month. I enjoy flipping through it to see what’s going on in the neighborhood. Children, school, pets, etc. I always check out the Chef’s Corner feature and...
Mar 18, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe, Meat
Deep South Dishes (And a link to the Southern Rubin) Sherry stumbled across a recipe for a southern alternative to the traditional Rubin. This is southern, as the name of the web site states. We’re going to try this Rubin; we’ll report on it later. In the...
Mar 11, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe
Recipe Nutrition Calculator Here is a rather neat service I discovered today. It’s the Very Well Fit Recipe Nutrition Calculator. Just paste in your ingredients into the text box; then choose number of servings. Then choose the option to embed the label. Copy...
Mar 11, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe, Meat
Home-made Breakfast Sausage We’re trying to come up with an alternative to high-sodium breakfast sausage; and we figure the best way to get that is to make it from scratch. So, W started with Alton Brown’s recipe. I cut his salt from 2 teaspoons to 1,...
Mar 9, 2021 | Food, Lagniappe, Meat
Low Sodium Breakfast Sausage Jimmy Dean’s Frozen Patties contain 560 mg of Sodium per serving. I found also, a home-made low-sodium sausage recipe here: https://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=1369504 It comes in at a whopping 36 mg as compared to 560...
Nov 15, 2020 | Food, Lagniappe
Lagniappe “Lagniappe” is where I put things that relate to cooking, but that aren’t necessarily recipes per se (but which sometimes are). You might find some of this interesting. BBQ Is Not a Verb Cajun Seasoning Fool Proof Boiled Eggs How Hot...
Apr 2, 2019 | Food, Lagniappe
Cooking Links amazing ribs aluminum foil faq Thanks to Reynolds asparagus recipes – California Asparagus Commission apple cider vinegar by bragg apple-cider brochure from bragg AARP uses of ripe bananas Barbeque Bible beer can chicken debunked caramelized onions...
Aug 13, 2018 | Food, Lagniappe
We Both Went Shopping! I fired up the smoker and cooked two family packs of chicken wings. I got them on sale for $1.49/lb at Foodarama. Also cooked up a huge batch of green chili sauce. Why a huge batch? Because Sherry and I both picked up the same items at the...
Dec 12, 2017 | Food, Lagniappe, Meat
(Instruction Booklet PDF – 2017) www.smokenator.com (Phone 888.205.1931) ________________________________________________________ LONG Cook Times – Set Up and Temperature Management A loaded Smokenator box will fuel a cook of about 6...
Sep 21, 2017 | Food, Lagniappe
Substitute for Canned “Creamed” Soup We’re not fans of canned soups because of their tendency to be LOADED with sodium. So when a recipe calls for a “Cream of This or That” soup, we like to use a version of this instead. ...
Jan 31, 2016 | Food, host, Lagniappe
New Fry Pan Just ordered a new Commercial Grade 12″ Frying Pan. It’s NSF rated and looks like the 10″ pan I got from Mother. That 10″ pan supposedly came from the kitchen at the International Harvester Plant in Memphis. I really like the...
Apr 21, 2014 | Food, host, Lagniappe
Easter Dinner! Sam had to work so we didn’t make big plans for dinner; but then he called and said he’d “like to drop by for a while,” and of course he suggested dinner would be nice. Fortunately the stores were still open (Foodarama had...
Feb 12, 2014 | Food, host, Lagniappe
Cajun Seasoning I don’t know where I got this recipe; it might have been from a chef friend back in Memphis, Buddy Bland. But I just don’t remember. Ingredients 3 tsp salt6 tsp Paprika4 T onion powder3 tsp garlic powder3 tsp...
Jun 2, 2013 | Food, host, Lagniappe, Meat, Poultry
BBQ is Not a Verb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ubTQfr_tyY&feature=youtu.be Really fun video about southern...
May 1, 2013 | Food, host, Lagniappe
Dry Milk To make one cup of milk, mix 1/3 cup dry milk with 7/8 cup of...
Oct 8, 2012 | Food, Lagniappe
Links These are links to sites having to do with food and cooking. I’ve set up another page for links to things having nothing to do with cooking. aluminum foil faq Thanks to Reynolds amazing ribs asparagus recipes – California Asparagus...
Sep 6, 2011 | Food, Lagniappe, Meat, Poultry, Soup, Veggies
One Pot Pressure Cooker Meal My mother gave me her old pressure cooker that must be at least 30 or 40 years old. I used it last night to stew some onions and peppers; and then added some shrimp and mussels. Turned out pretty darned good. Clean 3 or 4 mixed sweet...
Jun 21, 2010 | Food, Lagniappe
Non-cooking Links We have other interests, of course, besides cooking. And here are a few of them. Tumbleweed Almanac – Fr. Neil Willard’s Blog Roger Hutchison – Christian Educator, Artist, and Author Cajun History Kirsten Dinesen’s...
Jun 21, 2010 | Food, Lagniappe, Story-Telling
Church Stuff Some pictures of our children at church anglicans online bcp (By Section) bcp (Entire Book in PDF) bible Bible Gateway bishop doyle bishop doyle recommends bishop greg rickel childrens ministry online church calendar 1 | church calendar 2 daily office...
Jun 21, 2010 | Food, Lagniappe
Miscelleanous Links AlterNet American Politics Arianna Bart Cop Bible Trivia Bill Maher’s Blog Bush’s House of Horrors Bush Watch Campaign Desk Capitol Hill Christian Gays Columbia Journalism Review Common Dreams Consortium News Crisis Papers...
Apr 8, 2010 | Food, Lagniappe
Fool-Proof Boiled Eggs Special thanks to the American Egg Board for these instructions. Place eggs in saucepan large enough to hold eggs in a single layer. Cover with cold water to a depth of 1 inch over the eggs. Bring just to a boil; remove from burner and cover...
Dec 6, 2009 | Food, Lagniappe
Turkey Times – with Oven Bag If you lose the instructions that come with those oven cooking bags, this might come in handy. Click on image to...
Aug 13, 2009 | Food, Lagniappe
How Hot Is That Fire? In The Barbecue! Bible, Steven Raichlen recommends the “Mississippi test” for those who don’t have grill thermometers. Hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals or gas fire and count “one Mississippi, two...
