Chilaquiles, as best I can tell, are the Mexican version of the American casserole.  Just as there is no single casserole recipe in the states, there really isn’t a single casserole recipe in Latin America.  From country to country, family to family, there are likely millions of variations.  And just as the family casserole (or […]

New Years Day for me used to mean sluggishness and dehydration, now it has come to mean re-seasoning my cast iron pans.  How about that for a bizarre tradition? My cast iron pans get quite a bit of use throughout the year cooking and searing various meats.  While none of them have ever seen a […]

If there’s one recipe that everyone should make one time from scratch, it’s the classic Beef Burgundy.  It’s also one of the more time consuming recipes around, so I was looking for a way to save time.  The answer is to make beef burgundy in a pressure cooker, instead of […] Simple Awesome Cooking uses […]

Turn your leftover soy pulp into this healthy, low sugar Okara Granola. It’s a sustainable homemade cereal that the whole family will love! 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 […]

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe While the origins of the infamous bacon weave aren’t fully known, what we do know is that it’s one of the most extreme bacon recipes ever.  And it’s bound to be a winner for any bacon themed contest. Since moving to Chicago bacon in the 90’s, my friends and I […]

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 […]