A Comprehensive Guide to Mashed Potatoes There aren’t any universally recognized poems about the night before Thanksgiving. I’m not going to write one, but someone should. Let’s take a minute to visualize together. It’s Thanksgiving morning, the parade is on in the background, maybe some of your kids are still…

Matt Chapman aka @chapymattbbq bringing the heat and the sweet Back in April, bored out of my mind and unemployed I convinced my wife I needed a Traeger grill. To date, it’s the purchase that’s, as Marie Kondo would say, sparked the most joy. From quick dinners to overnight briskets…

A Side Dish Assist from Sara Range aka @polygrill17 It’s thanksgiving week! Hopefully you’ve listened to the podcast by now, if not you can find it here. With turkey concerns behind us, they’re covered in the podcast, I reached out to Sara Range (@polygrill17 on Instagram) to see if she…

A Minimalist Guide to Home Cooking Gear Hopefully by now you’ve seared a steak, or splattered the back splash of your stove with tomato sauce, maybe flung a few strands of spaghetti on the cabinets to make sure they stick. …

Now that we’re getting better acquainted, and you’re beginning to adjust to my quirks let’s cook something. You know those diners advertising steak and spaghetti? Also usually sitting with the name of either Gus or George? That’s the experience we’re after today. Formica table tops, Sinatra on the radio, advertisement…

Five Rules for Good Cooking I’m terrible at beginnings. I think it comes from my impulse to jump into things, break them and try to put them together half way through. …

Cooking advice from a former chef. Senses and Success. Sitting on the back patio at a cookout yesterday, I exclaimed, “I’ll give you a quick kitchen hack.” Everyone’s ears pricked up, millenials LOVE hacks. “Set the oven at 350, regardless of what you’re trying to accomplish, 350 degrees will get you there.” It’s…

Restaurant owners facing potential extinction. By now I’m sure you’re all tired of being constantly bombarded with the near apocalyptic stories of a world desperate to contain the spread of COVID-19. A world slowly beginning to resemble the dystopian societies of Hollywood movies and Orwellian novels. As our government shuts…

Life changing habits that had an immediate impact. — In the summer of 2019, if there was anyone who needed a win, it was me. I was tired, scatter brained and fat. I don’t mean that I had body image issues. I was clinically obese. I was also an addict. Alcoholism was in complete control of my behavior. I drank so I could relax. I drank so I could sleep. A brutal irony; I couldn’t…