My niece is one of our faithful audience members and is constantly submitting recipes for us to try. Since I wasn’t feeling very inspired, I reached out to her for this week’s recipe. She immediately responded by requesting Bobby Flay’s Shrimp and Grits recipe from the Food Network website. Although, I have made polenta many times before I have never made grits. It turns out that polenta is made from yellow corn and grits from finer ground white corn. …
Sometimes I wonder if everyone has his or her own culinary pet peeve, I know I do. You hear it all the time; New Yorkers have a lot to say about their pizza. Chicagoans are passionate about their hot dogs and Philadelphians are crazy about their cheesesteaks. Well, I feel the same about the Cuban sandwich. Growing up in Miami, I know my Cuban sandwiches and for years I watched celebrity chefs make “authentic” Cuban sandwiches. It makes me …
Over spring break, we spent the week in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains in a cabin not far from the Mountain Valley Farm, a grass-fed cattle farm. Knowing we wanted to grill steaks that evening, we hopped on over for fresh beef. I was expecting to see the normal items sold at a smaller farmer’s market like strawberry jam and things like that. I was not expecting …