The Best Way To Cook Shrimp

One of the most popular seafood is a shrimp. It can be cooked in a variety of ways possible and all of them are the best depending on your taste and liking. You can have it grilled, boiled, sauteed, deep-fried, or even baked. It is all based on your preference. You can also have the shell on or not, vein left in or deveined.  It can be cooked with the Continue reading

BBQ Shrimp Recipe

This, my friend, is a dish from New Orleans. I’ll remind you that New Orleans is located in the deepest of The Deep South. If you are counting calories, push back from this one, for now. Come back when you have a “few” (clearing throat) extra calories to play with.

You will not use your grill for this recipe, either. The ‘barbeque’ reference in the name comes from the sauce. Once you taste it, you will completely understand.

Time for a quiz…

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The Indirect Grilling Method

If you will take the few minutes that it takes — and it really is only a minute or two — to understand how to use the indirect grilling method, you will increase your ability as a cook tenfold.

Indirect Grilling — How To Do It:

  • Start a fire as you would normally.

Shrimp and Grits Recipes

There is a history lesson screaming to be let out. Don’t worry. It’s about shrimp and grits. Nothing boring.

As obvious as is seems, shrimp and grits was originally a breakfast meal. Shrimpers and fishermen in the Low Country of South Carolina ate it often because it was simple, hearty and available.  I’ve seen it called “‘working man’s food” a lot more often than once or twice.

So, what happened?All of a sudden, it was as if the dish was on menus everywhere! Not only that, Continue reading

Why Is Scotch Whiskey Scotch?

That smooth drink, whiskey, which is a result of the distilling of grains and letting it age in wooden barrels for along time, has been produced by many nations for decades. No matter if whiskey is called scotch whiskey, bourbon, single malt or rye, the same principal applies: the number of times the liquid is distilled, just the grains used, alterations from different places. These are why Continue reading