Cooking With Dan

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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New Belgium 1554 Black Ale Braised Beef and Onions

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

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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New Google Recipe Search

Tagged as: Cooking With Dan, Food News

Google just launched a new recipe search option on their website. It’s pretty extensive and I’m sure will get even more features in time. Here is a search I did for Baby Back Ribs. After you have done your search you can then select specific ingredients to include or leave out!

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More Smoking in Orange

Tagged as: BBQ, Cooking With Dan

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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No Waste Carnitas Tacos from Serious Eats

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

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!

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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