Originally published at BethCato.com. You can comment here or there.

It seems a lot of standard buns are just… there. A thing to hold meat. They aren’t memorable or flavorful.

You want something better than a mere meat sling? MAKE THIS.


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Originally published at BethCato.com. You can comment here or there.

Holy cow. You’d think all cows are holy with how beef costs have gone up, and it’s supposed to get worse through the summer.


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My husband is a meat, potatoes, and beer kinda guy. Therefore, I can tell you that this particular recipe has become one of his very favorites.


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Gnocchi. It looks intimidating--heck, the name even sounds intimidating--but it's really not.


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We've lived in Arizona for over six years, but there are still a lot of things we miss about our prior home near Seattle: the vivid green hills, the visible snow on the Cascades, the existence of winter, the cloudy days, Ivar's clam chowder, the teriyaki chicken...


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A few years ago I had a friend react with horror when I mentioned that I grew cilantro. "Ew! It taste like soap!" she said. I confess, this baffled me. Soap? Then a few months ago, I had genetic testing done through 23 and Me. To my shock, one of the gene trait results involved the taste of cilantro. I do not carry the soap-tasting gene ( Read more... )

Chick-Fil-A chicken is good stuff. My husband got me hooked on it back when we were newly married and living in South Carolina. A few years later when he was stationed Washington, we mourned the loss of Chick-Fil-A, even as we discovered yummy new restaurants like Ivar's and Taco Time and teriyaki joints in every strip mall.


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I have said it before and I'll say it again: lemons are awesome. They have such an amazing power to brighten and freshen a dish.

This has become a go-to recipe for us. Boneless chicken thighs are often on sale. Lemons are cheap. I have a gargantuan rosemary bush in my backyard I don't get to trim often enough.


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I love my slow cooker. I love that it makes meat all amazing and delicious with little effort on my part. It's really rather magical, that chemical change that occurs when meat cooks all day long and steeps in juices ( Read more... )

I have an anti-bean man. He won't touch black beans or pinto beans or refried beans. He also loves meat and chili. It makes it a challenge to find good chili recipes for him because so many involve beans. I've modified a few recipes to be all meat, but what I loved about this recipe is that it didn't need modification at all. It's beef, pure and ( Read more... )