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Best Shrimp and Grits Recipe Ever!

I realize it may sound like bragging to call my shrimp and grits recipe the best shrimp and grits recipe ever. However, these aren’t my words. These are the words of everyone who has ever tried my shrimp and grits – a regular in my dinner party repertoire. I first discovered shrimp and grits when we moved to the South fifteen years ago. I was hooked! I ordered it whenever it was…

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Cooking, Food

Life with Baby Gourmand

I have a few trolls in The Wandering Gourmand community. They recently surfaced on two occasions – the announcement of my wife’s pregnancy and then again on our son’s birth.     Both posts were immediately followed with comments of “your traveling days are over,” “you’ll never eat out again,” and “get used to chicken nuggets instead of chicken cacciatore.” Normally they follow the spite with a muahaha to show that the…

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Pairing Challenge

Persian Kabob Recipe + Contest Winner

Beer Versus Wine Challenge Goes on Hiatus Come again? Yep, I’m taking the Beer Versus Wine Challenge on a break. I know that I said in my New Year’s Post that it wasn’t going anywhere, and it still isn’t. I just need to rethink it. While the Challenge normally draws a lot of traffic, the traffic is not resulting in participation or votes. I’m spending a lot of time promoting a contest…

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Pairing Challenge

Persian Kabob Pairing Challenge – The Vote

Which is the Best Wine or Craft Beer Pairing With Persian Kabob? I was pretty stoked when I read A Famished Foodie’s pairing challenge for January – Persian Kabob.  Any excuse to fire up the grill in the middle of January is a good time to me.  And, as Famished wrote, this winter has been unseasonably warm.  I’ve never cooked Persian Kabob before, but what the heck!  Grilled meat can never be…

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Pairing Challenge

Beer Versus Wine – Persian Kabob

Congratulations to December’s Beer Versus Wine Challenge Winner – A Famished Foodie!  Part of the honor includes coming up with February’s challenge.  Participants have until next Wednesday, January 14 to turn in their suggestion before we take it to a vote.  For more on the rules, click here. Persian Kabob The major winter holidays have come and gone, and at this point, I’m ready for food that doesn’t include turkey, cranberry sauce, or…

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Cooking, Food

An Italian Christmas Tradition – Calamari Tomato Sauce Recipe

If you’ve followed this blog long enough, you know I grew up in a rather large Italian-American family.  My grandparents lived two blocks from us and my great aunts and uncles lived within a five block radius.  All said, about fifty of us cuginos lived within a few miles of each other.  Christmas Eve was our night to all gather together, enjoy more than a few toasts and saluds, and feast on our…

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Pairing Challenge

Chicken Saltimbocca Recipe + Contest Winner

Chicken Saltimbocca – Not Just for Restaurants Anymore! Chicken Saltimbocca is one of those dishes that I often order at restaurants but have never attempted at home.  I’m not really sure why.  Perhaps it’s because the richness makes it appear so complex that it can’t be replicated by a simple home cook like myself.  SAHMmalier taught me this month that Chicken Saltimbocca can be reproduced at home.  It’s just a few ingredients…

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Pairing Challenge

Deviled Eggs Recipe + Contest Winner

Grown Up Kegs and Eggs, Anyone? We had so much fun with adult ice cream floats for August’s Beer Versus Wine Challenge of Vanilla Ice Cream that I was disappointed comments didn’t take the same direction for Deviled Eggs.  No reliving kegs and eggs memories from college?  Or do we just not remember those hazy homecoming weekends when our bad decisions started in the AM with scrambled eggs and cheap beer.  Heck,…

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Cooking, Food

What I Eat While She is Away Part II – Leftovers

Okay, so I’m not just warming up Sunday’s pasta.  Leftovers wouldn’t last me an entire week.  I’m actually cooking the leftovers.  It’s a strange concept, cooking leftovers, but hear me out.  I’m frugal.  That’s not a confession, but a proud fact.  One of the ways we are frugal is by always shopping the grocery store weekly specials or the Costco quantities.  If it’s not a deal, it doesn’t make our weekly menu…

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Charlotte, Cooking, Food, Travel

My New Found Charlotte Fave – Savory Spice Shop

After returning from Bavaria, the Mrs. and I were on a quest for a new local market.  We are regulars at the local farmers markets but these just don’t compare to the markets we experienced in Munich, Vienna, and Salzburg.  There’s just something missing stateside that you can find in a European market.  We recently heard of Atherton Mill and Market and wanted to try it out.  Unfortunately for us, the market…

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