Over the weekend I got to spend a lot of time with some excellent friends who I hadn’t spent so much time with since I was a small child playing football in our conjoining backyards! A lot has changed from the years of piling in a large van to go to UT home games, but … Continue reading
Just yesterday I got a free 14-day trial to CooksIllustrated.com. It’s an amazing website. Not only do they have chefs in their test kitchen, but the chefs are also scientists. What it boils down to is 1000 Alton Brown’s (my apologies to those chefs who are offended being compared to him) trying new recipes and … Continue reading
Tonight for the family I made a whole chicken in a dry rub, roasted on a charcoal grill with garlic mashed potatoes. The prep time didn’t take as long as I had expected but cooking the chicken took nearly an hour and a half. I ended up finishing the mashed potatoes 30 minutes before the … Continue reading
At the end of May 2011 I graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Anthropology. Throughout my tenure at the University I was always bombarded with questions, by my most anyone who asked what my major was, along the lines of, “So . . . what can you do … Continue reading