Secret Spicy Sauce

Secret Spicy Sauce The first ingredient in our cooking is imagination, and it’s always fun. Patti and I both dream of things we want to try and most mornings we talk about our ideas over coffee. Sometimes it will take us a few weeks to work out a big recipe we like. But this one is super simple, and there are only 3 Ingredients in…

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Review of Chef Of The Future Rub & Seasoning

Review of Chef Of The Future Rub & Seasoning Here at Date Night Doins Patti and I are fortunate that we get to sample, taste and use lots of sauces and seasonings. So far all are good and some are better. But, sometimes one just steps out that it is so good you hurt yourself licking your lips. Chef Of The Future Rub & Seasonings…

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Bacon Gravy

Bacon Gravy I love bacon, never had any I didn't like. I will admit that I have some that I didn't like as much others... Sometimes Patti makes this for me and I put on meat and taters... You just know that your living the good life... Easy, Simple and Good... Ingredients: Bacon Gravy 6 slices of pepper bacon Wondra or flour Milk 1 Tbsp.…

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Pecan Crusted Chicken Tenders

Pecan Crusted Chicken Tenders This recipe was especially tasty and fun to make. Patti cut one of Zaycon Fresh chicken breasts into ½” strips. Using Zaycon Fresh chicken breasts we knew it would be tender and full of flavor…if we didn’t have Zaycon Fresh we would have just called them chicken strips. You can really taste the difference. Plus, we got to use Ken’s Mom’s…

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BBQ Pork Chops with South Carolina-Style Mustard Barbecue Sauce

BBQ Pork Chops with South Carolina-Style Mustard Barbecue Sauce We love big thick pork chops any way they come. Patti gets us a big pork loin and I cut big chops out if it for the grill. Tonight I took some of these chops and grilled them with our new South Carolina-Style Mustard Barbecue Sauce and they were Awesome!!! So good you can serve them up…

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Caesar Marinated Chicken Leg Quarters

Caesar Marinated Chicken Leg Quarters It’s been a long day, plus 97 degrees of dry heat. But, we still have to have dinner. Thanks to our Pacific Living Outdoor Oven we made an easy three ingredient dinner and kept the kitchen cool. We love doing recipes with “on hand” ingredients and served with cold sliced tomatoes this was perfect. Patti made enough to have some…

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Smoked Jalapeno Poppers Viedo

https://youtu.be/UJuX9PsIm8o Smoked Jalapeno Poppers Video This is one of our first videos done with our old camera. Almost embarrassing compared to our videos now. But it does get the message across... We enjoy Smoked Jalapeno Poppers or ABT’s  ( Atomic Buffalo Turds ) as they are referred to in the BBQ world. We have been doing them at the Farmer’s Market and folks have been…

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Twisted Piggy Burnt Ends Video

https://youtu.be/vaumUsewWlc Twisted Piggy Burnt Ends Last week I was talking with Jim Olson, one of my Facebook friends, about our “Poor Man’s Burnt Ends”. He said that he has used pork strips as another cheap alternative to brisket. Well, that got me to thinking and we all know that is a painful process to say the least. So, thinking on it for a few days…

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Pretzel Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops

Pretzel Parmesan Crusted Pork Chops We don’t eat much fried food, but oven fried pork chops sounded good. Patti took it a few steps further. Instead of a fry pan we used our Green Mountain Grill. Instead of plain old bread crumbs Patti crushed hard pretzels mixed with parmesan cheese and with Green Mountain Grills Pork Seasoning. Perfect. Patti and I have set one night…

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Southwestern Cabbage Rolls

Southwestern Cabbage Rolls Patti’s family emigrated from Eastern Europe and she had fond memories of these cabbage rolls that were called one thing in German and another in Polish. But, Ken being from Texas we made them a little zippier. Patti made them extra easy using an instant brown rice, bottled tomato sauce and some of our favorite southwestern seasonings. Plus, you can put it…

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