Texas Pecan Pesto made with smoked pecans.

Roasted bone marrow, one of the easiest (and cheapest) “foodie” dishes to make.

Tips and recipe for fixing a holiday rib roast.

Korean BBQ Short Ribs recipe with step-by-step pictures, salty and sweet, with a hint of smoky sesame flavor.

How to make homemade hot sauce.

Hand-cut fries with spicy Sriracha ketchup!

10 things to grill this Memorial Day weekend.

Chef Tim Byres’s fire roasted oysters at the 2013 Austin Food & Wine Festival.

How to pick a steak and grilling tips from Chef Tim Love!

How to fix lobster tails! Just in time for Valentine’s Day.

How to cook a really big steak… Cowboy style!

Cowboy Beans made with coffee, bacon and… kombu?

Savory bacon pecan cookies baked on the grill. My first attempt at baking.

5 tips on how to fix perfect BBQ chicken.

Bacon wrapped meatloaf stuffed with cheese. The bacon weave traps in the moisture making for a more juicy meatloaf.

In case you missed it, the Internet foodie community has been all a buzz this past week about spiral cut hot dogs. I had to give it a try!

Burger tips for your 4th of July BBQ!

Sushi demonstration by Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto at the Austin Food & Wine Festival.

Fixed this pastrami more like a Texas BBQ brisket than the traditional cold smoke and steamed. It turned out great!

My favorite part of St. Patrick’s Day is when I make corned beef hash out of my corned beef and cabbage leftovers.

Experimented with trying to cook corned beef sous vide style in my slow cooker. Check out the results.

Saint Patrick’s Day is just around the corner. There’s still time to corn your own brisket to make corned beef.