Teach a man to fish…

According to Wikipedia there are over 170 kinds of edible fish, and I noticed some missing from their list. Fish is considered one of the healthiest animal based protein sources, containing healthy fats and oils, and a generally all-natural diet. We can’t really say that about beef, pork, or chicken.

The History of the Little Potato (if you’re after the classic mash recipe straight away scroll down!)

Potatoes, as most of us know, come from Peru originally. Now they are everywhere there are people. Potatoes are linked to many civilizations having booms. The potato fed the Incas, allowing them to make incredible leaps in science, math, and architecture. They fed the Mayans and the Aztecs. Potatoes have been cultivated for over 7,000 years by the people of the Andes, resulting in about 5 thousand varieties.

Nachos started out similar to the Caesar salad. A Mexican Maitre’D named Ignacio (Nacho) Anaya had a table of 10 to 12 ladies show up at his restaurant after closing.

Not one to miss out on business, Nacho ran into the kitchen to see what he had.The answer was tostadas, shredded Wisconsin cheese, and jalapenos. The “nacho” was born.

I love nacho cheese. Like, give me a spoon and I’ll eat as much as I can until I explode. I even like the nasty, spackle consistency, fake cheese, just don’t tell anyone.

There are many kinds of steak out there, from the expensive filet to the almost-not-a-steak-cross-cut. One of the most overlooked is the sirloin.

In restaurants it’s usually the cheapest on the menu, leading people to believe that it isn’t as good as other steaks. This is not true! Sirloin may not be as tender as a filet or New York, but it has an incredible amount of flavor.

(UPDATED 2016) – There are entirely too many kids growing up these days who think that chicken noodle soup was invented by Campbell’s. I have even heard of restaurants that serve premade chicken noodle soup out of a bag or a can.

This makes a little part of me die inside. So, to make myself feel better about this sorry state of affairs, we are going to explore this mainstay, the right way.

Remember your childhood? Wasn’t lemonade a fond part of a hot summer day? Now, remember your early adulthood, wasn’t vodka and lemonade a delightful blur on a hot summer’s day? We have lost the art of REAL, homemade lemonade. Powder mixes, premade bottled, both with ingredients you can’t pronounce, much less identify, have replaced the real deal. The sad part is that it’s only about ten minutes of work to make the delicious, thirst quenching, summertime staple.

Burgers, burgers, burgers. There are so many takes on the humble little hamburger. From the boring, pre-made, scary-pink freezer patty (that can still be delicious if cooked well), to the gem of the hamburger world, Kobe beef.

We all have to admit that at one time or another even a fast food burger has hit the spot, and we all have fond memories of the summertime barbeque burgers. To me they are all great and each have a time and place. Let me tell you about one of my favorite burgers of all time, the real mushroom onion burger.