Ingredients: Peaches – peeled and chopped Raisins – half a handful Dried Cherries – half a handful Juice of a small lime Juice of a small lemon Brown Sugar 2 spoons flour Bourbon Cinnamon Spoonful Apricot Preserves Bourbon (yes, we said it twice) Yes, Men Can Bake It’s just that most of them don’t want [...]

Ingredients: Catfish fillets Olive Oil Cholula Spices – Old Bay, Ancho, Cholula, salt and pepper Sweet Potato Salsa Roscoe Doesn’t Deep Fry You don’t need breading or coating or crust, that cover of flour that usually makes your fish real crispy but then that’s all you can taste. Catfish tastes too good to disguise it. [...]

However You Translate, It Means Bean Soup And it is some kind of good. Full of beans and chorizo and ham hock and a whole bunch of other Cuban stuff that’s nothing but flavor. It’s Good To Have Relatives Ana Z is married to Roscoe’s cousin, the Z-Man, they live in Miami. Ana Z’s mother [...]

Ingredients: 1 sweet potato – diced 1/2 red pepper – diced 1 slice red onion – diced 1 green onion – diced 1 spoon chopped jalapenos in vinegar 2 spoons orange marmalade or apricot preserves Juice of one lime Cholula Chili Lime – a couple squirts to taste Salt and pepper to taste Won’t Find [...]

Roscoe: Bitter In Defeat? No way. Even though Roscoe’s Kielbasa Reuben was the only sandwich to earn a perfect score from one judge (clearly a man with discerning perception and taste, intelligent, worldly, held in high esteem by all) , the overall tally betrayed him. And considering the competition, there were no losers. Sandy’s Pastrami [...]

There Were Always Dogs Of course there were. Cave Dudes, Cave Babes, Cave Kids, and Cave Dogs. The nuclear Cave Family. Except it wasn’t. This Was Before Pets It was also before table scraps (tables hadn’t been invented yet, so how could you have table scraps?). Even back then, dogs were pretty smart. They saw [...]

Where’s Bobby Flay? When you get challenged to a Throwdown, and your name happens to be Roscoe, well, let’s face it, you’re talking about a good time. But this time, it’s not Bobby Flay coming from New York, it’s Z-Man coming from Florida. Says He Makes The Best Well, now we’ll see. He’s even bringing [...]

Ingredients: Beans and rice – red or black (see Roscoe’s Red Beans and Rice) Turkey Mole’ (see Sandy’s Mexican Fiesta) Tortillas (see your grocer) Cheese (Roscoe recommends shredded pepper Jack) Enchiladas Are Easy You go to a Mexican restaurant and order an enchilada, and you get a big plate that looks like it was really [...]