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Making Bauducco Panettone Bread Pudding

Tagged as: Booze, Cooking With Dan, Dessert, Eat in OC Feature, Foodbuzz, Italian, Recipes

This past week my site sponsor Foodbuzz sent me a couple Bauducco Panettones to try out and write about. I’ve seen panettone’s at a number of Italian restaurants but had never tried it. Taking it out of the box and cutting it up to make bread pudding, I discovered the consistency of panettones is very similar to [...]

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Pickling Peppers in the OC

Tagged as: Cooking With Dan, Growing Veggies, It's Not Easy Being Green, Save Money, Vegetables!, Vegetarian

As many of you know, besides doing restaurant reviews I also cook (as seen by the recipes I’ve posted here) as well as grow some of my own vegetables.  The hardest part about growing your own veggies is figuring out what to do with them, especially when they all decide to get ripe at the [...]

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The New Eat in OC Ugly Drum Smoker!

Tagged as: BBQ, How Do I Cook?, Smoked Meat

For the past year I’ve read a number of forum posts and blog posts from many people that use BBQ Smokers, one particular topic stood out, building their own smoker.  Although I’ve been very happy with the side box smoker that I purchased over a year ago, I’ve wanted to go to the next level… [...]

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New Belgium 1554 Black Ale Braised Beef and Onions

Tagged as: BEER!, Cooking With Dan, Foodbuzz, Recipes, Sandwich

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As part of the Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program I was tasked with creating a meal that would feature or go well with any one of New Belgium Brewing Companies’ fine beers.  I looked through my stack of recipes I have filed and thought that some type of pot roast would be perfect to pair with this [...]

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More Smoking in Orange

Tagged as: BBQ, Cooking With Dan

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Last week was my birthday, I celebrated it as any american male would, by cooking large amounts of meat for others to enjoy! The cooking included slaving over my side box smoker for 10 hours smoking a 5 1/2 pound beef brisket that I procured from El Toro Gourmet Meats. I woke up at 7:30 [...]

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Thanksgiving 2010 – Part 1

Tagged as: American, Dessert, Eat in O.C. Friends, Friends of EOC, Holidays, How Do I Cook?, Recipes, Vegetables!

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I’ve been meaning to get to this all week but my day job has been hectic.  Here is a round-up of our Thanksgiving for 2010.  For Thanksgiving we went to my in-laws, turkey and ham where on the menu.  We took it upon ourselves to make a completely from scratch pumpkin pie (the Mrs.), from [...]

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No Waste Carnitas Tacos from Serious Eats

Tagged as: Cooking With Dan, Eat in OC Feature, How Do I Cook?, Mexican, Recipes, Vegetables!

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I saw this great sounding carnitas recipe from Kenji on Serious Eats awhile ago.  Carnitas are one of my favorite types of meats to order when I’m having Mexican, and I have wanted to take a stab at making it myself.  One of my main issues with cooking carnitas in the past was that I [...]

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Butterflied Tri-Tip Fajitas

Tagged as: Cooking With Dan, Growing Veggies, Mexican, Recipes, Vegetables!

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So last week, Mrs. DanGarion and I cooked up some Tri-Tip for fajitas.  The recipe I used was adapted by the Serious Eats crew from the Robb Walsh book Tex-Mex Grill and Backyard Barbacoa Cookbook.  Along with the tri-tip, I roasted up home-grown veggies from our garden, and whipped up some guacamole.  All in all [...]

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