This weekend I got some meat from Stillman's Turkey Farm: oddly, no turkey, but I did get hot Italian lamb sausage, pork chops, and a whole chicken.

I roasted the whole chicken today using this simple recipe, and substituting two limes for a lemon. It came out amazing. I ate, literally, half the bird for dinner (that's about two pounds of chicken). ( Read more... )

Dave McKean illustrated a cookbook that's out now. It is a $250 monster of a large format high-end chef book, so not for purchase by the average cook, but worth checking your library for.

The Big Fat Duck Cookbook

Brief review and some illustrations here.

Dear Internet,

You see this? This is BACON MAYO -- emulsified bacon fat. This, on French fries, is my dinner. Fuck. Yes.


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So this was written in a fit of frustration today inspired by a cookout I attended yesterday (not
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