Quincy J. Allen recipes, tips, and tools for usually healthy eating from usually easy recipes. Okay, so sometime the food isn’t healthy but it’s delicious. And, yeah, sometimes it’s not easy to make, but it’s worth the effort. This section also includes recommended gadgets and widgets for use in the kitchen, as well as methods that have worked for me to make preparing meals easier.
I got the urge to make refried beans for tacos, burritos, bean dip, side dishes, and as just a tasty snack. So, I looked up several recipes and came up with one of my own that I think is the best refried beans I’ve ever had. My wife agrees, and granted, we have a bias, […]
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This is one of the easiest recipes in my repertoire, in no small part because there’s no actual cooking involved. This dish relies upon the age-old method of “cooking” the raw fish in highly acidic juices like lime or lemon. As a result, it’s almost pickled and, therefore, something that will last in your fridge
Asian Fusion Yellowtail Ceviche / Salsa Read More »
This one is going to look like it has a lot of steps, and I supposed it does, but most of them end up being encapsulated during the preparation process. If you love sushi, then take a few minutes to review this one. There’s NO reason at all why you can’t make rolls at home.
This is one of my favorite Indian dishes that we make at home. As with most of my recipes, this makes a fairly large amount, but we generally put up excess sauces and stews with our canner. This recipe, as is, does require storing left-over starter sauce, but that can be frozen rather than canned,
Lamb / Goat Vindaloo Rogen Josh Hybrid Read More »
As I’ve delved deeper into using the smoker, my wife picked up a highly recommended cook book for smoking meats and knocking out various soul foods out of the park. The author’s name is Kevin Bludso, and I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve gotten out of his book Bludso’s BBQ Cookbook. For my pork ribs, pork shoulder,
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I’m a huge BBQ fan, so I wanted to put my own take on BBQ sauce. When I was a kid, there was one recipe handed down through the matrons of my family: Root Beer Lemonade. There’s something about root beer extract that compliments both sweet, tart, and tangy. So, I figured I’d experiment with
Q’s Barbecue Sauce Read More »
If you didn’t know, I’m half Cajun on my mother’s side. Growing up, we would shoot on down to bayou country (see Thibodaux and Houma Louisiana), and enjoy what south Louisiana has to offer… which means crab, shrimp, and crawfish boils. I’d missed it, so we recently went ahead and got a big boiler pot
Classic Cajun Boil Read More »
This recipe was inspired by a photo I saw on T.V. It was a pepper stuffed with something, and in an instant I realized that wrapping it with bacon would make a stuffed pepper even better. Hell, everything is better with bacon. So, I figured I’d give the idea a try, and the following recipe
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