Slow cooked, hearty greens like collards, mustard and the
like are the perfect match for lusty cuts of pork like heavily smoked and well
marbled bacon. When combined with dried
beans like the Grea…
“One quart cream, one quart milk, one dozen tablespoons
sugar, one pint brandy, 1/2 pint rye whiskey, 1/2 pint Jamaica rum, 1/4 pint
sherry—mix liquor first, then separate yolks and whites of eggs,…
The holidays have been good to me so far. One of the most exciting things I received this year was an SV1 Sous Vide cooking immersion Circulator. I have been using my VacMaster® PRO380 for a…
Is your Holiday centerpiece a Standing Rib Roast or a
Prime Rib?Meat labeling can be a culinary quagmire even for the
most knowledgeable cook. You have myriad of ways to cut beef with differing cuts…
As with any classic dish there are many stories as to its
pedigree. Depending how far we go back in culinary history we could credit the
Mayans with inventing chocolate fondue as their creamy chocol…
In case you’re not familiar, planking is cooking food
directly on a piece of hardwood. The idea is that the surface of the food
touching the wood picks up some of the plank's natural flavors when he…
The Austrians call it Wiener Schnitzel, the Italians
Milanesa, the Scotts collops, in South America it goes by, Silpancho and let us
not forget the late, great Elvis Presley affectionately called it…
Native to North America the wild turkey unlike its
domesticated counterpart can fly as well as run up to 20 miles an hour. In fact Benjamin Franklin lobbied for the native fowl to take its perch as t…
With the whirlwind of the holiday season going full speed ahead, here at VacMaster® we are focusing on each holiday as it comes. We know the first big holiday coming up is Thanksgiving, and that, is w…
I was surprised to learn that pheasant isn't indigenous
to the U.S. The earliest known
introduction of the pheasant to our shores is said to have been in 1733, when
the Old English Blackneck Pheas…
Moving on: Why I ditched my old slow cooker for my sous vide cookerGood: Slow CookerI used
to love cooking in my slow cooker; I was even willing to overlook all of its
flaws. To the masses that use…
Nothing screams Fall to me more than squash - especially
pumpkins. Most people run to their local
groceries to pick up a few cans of canned pumpkin for their seasonal baking
duties but for my mout…
