April 2025

Strike a balance between smokey ribs and fall of the bone tender meat using my Texas Two Step method Simple Awesome Cooking uses cookies for advertising and to give you the most relevant experience. We also use affiliate links for Amazon products and are compensated for purchases. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use […]

Fans of steel cut oats know that while they make for a high fiber breakfast, they aren’t the quickest thing to prepare in the morning.  You might as well make risotto for breakfast, since you’ll spend about the same amount of time with the prepping and the stirring and the […] Simple Awesome Cooking uses […]

Strike a balance between smokey ribs and fall of the bone tender meat using my Texas Two Step method Simple Awesome Cooking uses cookies for advertising and to give you the most relevant experience. We also use affiliate links for Amazon products and are compensated for purchases. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use […]

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe As a general rule, anything is better when frittered.  And way back, there used to be a Southern restaurant in Chicago that had these amazing deep fried corn fritters.  While I’ve never been able to find anything as close to their recipe, I think these are still pretty delicious Yellow […]

As a general rule, anything is better when frittered.  And way back, there used to be a Southern restaurant in Chicago that had these amazing deep fried corn fritters.  While I’ve never been able to find anything as close to their recipe, I think these are still pretty delicious Yellow […] We have a Sunday […]

Everyone’s heard of 40 cloves of garlic chicken and thought “wow, that’s a lot of garlic!”  What if you took 100 cloves of garlic and made it into a buttery spread?  Read on and find out how easy it is to make. Mission: Find Recipes That Use a Lot of Garlic […] Simple Awesome Cooking uses […]

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Fresh artichokes are really tasty, especially when you get down to that delicious choke in the center, but they are a lot of work.  So you’d think that canned, or jarred, artichokes would be a suitable substitute?  Not really.  It’s not as bad as fresh asparagus vs. canned asparagus, but […]

Over the summer, I was in San Diego for work and was enjoying as many different types of tacos as possible. One really unique taco that I wanted to recreate was the Fried Avocado Street Taco. Crunchy on the outside, creamy in the middle, delicious all the way around. There […] Simple Awesome Cooking uses […]

When we were in Mendoza in 2009, we had a pretty amazing lunch at Bodega Melipal that included a very tasty Malbec Carrot Soup.  This is my attempt to recreate it, leveraging some of the techniques from Francis Mallman’s Butternut Squash Soup recipe in Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way.  There are intentionally very few ingredients here as […]

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Risotto is a popular dish in our house.  It’s creamy, it’s warming, it involves a bottle of wine to drink while you slowly stir the rice. And since it takes on flavors so well, it has endless possibilities for how it’s prepared.  Since traditional way is labor intensive, I found […]

Fall and Winter typically call for large pots of chili and soups. Large pots of chili and soups call for a great cornbread. Chipotle Cheddar Cornbread The challenge with most of the cornbread mixes is that tend to produce a dry finished product.  After you’ve spent all this hard work on a great pot of […]

Risotto is a popular dish in our house.  It’s creamy, it’s warming, it involves a bottle of wine to drink while you slowly stir the rice. And since it takes on flavors so well, it has endless possibilities for how it’s prepared.  Since traditional way is labor intensive, I found […] Simple Awesome Cooking uses […]

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Strike a balance between smokey ribs and fall of the bone tender meat using my Texas Two Step method Simple Awesome Cooking uses cookies for advertising and to give you the most relevant experience. We also use affiliate links for Amazon products and are compensated for purchases. By clicking “Accept”, you consent to the use […]