• Chicken Soup

    Chicken Soup

    Homemade Irish Grunt Style I am cooking this in my new Smithey Dutch Oven pot 7.25 Quart Ingredients Whole chicken 5 whole carrots 5 sticks celery 2 leeks 3 golden radishes 1 large onion 1 bushels Italian parsley 8 cups chicken broth 6 cups water 5 cloves garlic Salt, pepper, paprika, crushed red pepper, white…

  • Honey Glazed Collar Pork Steak

    Honey Glazed Collar Pork Steak

    Using Mikes Hot Honey This is an easy and great tasting recipe. Ingredients Collar Pork Steak Mikes Hot Honey Salt, pepper, paprika, crushed red pepper flakes to taste Garlic cloves 2 tbsps. Olive oil Brine you collar steak with salt, pepper and paprika. Stick in fridge for an hour, or overnight if you can. On…

  • Dirty South BBQ Review

    Dirty South BBQ Review

    SeXXXy Mama’s Rub So if you watch my show you know that I usually make my own rub. It is not that other rubs are not good, but I like to control the amount of heat and salt I put into food. Being that I shop at the @tnmeatco I often see Dirty South BBQ…

  • TN Chess Pie Program

    TN Chess Pie Program

    A program to support the VFW National Home The Department of Tennessee VFW and the Grand of Tennessee Military Order of the Cootie is joining together to form the TN Chess Pie Program. The program is set to help the VFW National Home through cooking lessons and providing meals for the Home. What does it…

  • Smithey Cast Iron a Review

    Smithey Cast Iron a Review

    45 days of my Smithey No 12 Combo 45 days, 75 meals, 1 pan. A review of my Smithey Ironware Company No 12 combo. Thanks to my friends at the TN Meat Co helping me with Cooking with a Veteran There is always that first couple meals you are trying to figure things out. While…

  • Cinnamon Raisin Rolls

    Cinnamon Raisin Rolls

    Classic breakfast or desert dish When I was younger my grandmother use to make these all the time, and I loved them. Hers are a little more flaky, which a lot of people love, but I like mine made from a puff pastry, gives it a bit more crunch. Ingredients: Icing/glaze (I am doing without,…

  • Pork Steak with Eggs

    Pork Steak with Eggs

    Mustard Rubbed Pork German Style I picked up this recipe while stationed in Heidelberg Germany in the mid 90’s. We were traveling through the WWII Path and stopped to eat breakfast at this German families home. The wife made like 30 of these pork steaks. While I don’t see a lot of pork steaks outside…

  • Single Tree BBQ

    Single Tree BBQ

    A Review So those that know me, know that I am a foodie, and big into good BBQ, I mean what meat lover isn’t. Over the years I have had lots of brisket, cooked in different ways, most of the time at a restaurant they tend to be a little dry or tough on the…

  • Breakfast Pig Shots

    Breakfast Pig Shots

    a Grunt twist on BBQ Pig Shots I never heard of pig shots, armadillo eggs, or shotgun shells until I was visiting some friends in Texas. Seems these are big in some parts, and boy are they good. If you watch my show you might see me doing a little more Southern cooking lately, but…

  • Cast Iron Honey Cornbread

    Cast Iron Honey Cornbread

    I love a good cast iron bread, nothing better This is thing in my @smithey No. 12 pan that does not have some sort of protein in it, but I love a good cast iron cornbread. To me you can’t really have good cornbread, unless you had Southern Style Honey Cornbread.  Ingredients: Preheat the oven to…