Ingredients: Leftover chili – warm Tortilla chips Cheese – pepper jack and your favorite, grated or chopped (about 1/2 lb total, more if you like) Green onions – chopped Got Chili? You made the chili just the way you like it, and everyone raved, and now you’ve got some left over. The heavy lifting is [...]

Ingredients: Italian Sausage – 2 lbs., casing removed White beans – 1 bag dried; Navy or cannellini (as long as they’re white) Stock – 8-10 cups, make your own or canned, beef or chicken Celery – 2 stalks, chopped Red pepper – chopped Red onion – chopped or sliced 2-3 carrots – chopped White wine [...]

Ingredients: Pulled Pork Can Black Beans Red onion Red pepper Spicy Brown Mustard Tortillas – Corn or flour, or both Pepper Jack Cheese Olive oil, Worcestershire, Cholula Spices Green onion Cilantro Salsa You Just Can’t Get Enough Pulled Pork Pork Butts went on sale again and you had no choice, you had to buy a [...]

Ingredients: 2 links smoked Kielbasa – chopped 8 (or so) medium sweet potatoes – diced medium (1/2 in.) 1 big red onion, chopped 1 red pepper – chopped garlic – as much as you like (4-6 cloves) stock – chicken or beef, 8-10 cups Worcestershire Cholula wine – whatever you’re drinking while you cook Salt, [...]

Ingredients: Rib meat – off the bone Cole slaw BBQ sauce Mustard – yellow, brown, or both Good Rolls Pickle You don’t Have To Wait For Leftovers Like that’ll ever happen. You can’t say “ribs” and “leftovers” in the same sentence, unless you’re in some parallel universe. So you’d better make the sandwich when they [...]

Carnitas Means Pork Okay, you knew that. And you also know how to roast or smoke (for those of you who have smokers) a pork butt and turn it into that most delicious and succulent dish we call PULLED PORK. And when it’s done, and you’ve pulled it and sauced it to perfection, and certainly [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]