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Friday Grilling: BBQ Short Ribs
A few weeks ago, I made a full meal on the grill, grilled green beans, grilled vidalia onion, and some awesome grilled short ribs. The following are three recipes, techniques really, for making barbecued beef short ribs, cooking them start to finish on the grill, pre-cooking them and finishing them on the grill, and cooking them sous vide and finishing them on the grill. (If you don't have a wood or charcoal grill, I really don't recommend doing short ribs this way.) Use whatever your favorite barbecue sauce is, store bought or homemade. (I need to do a homemade barbecue sauce post! Anyone wants to make suggestions, feel free in comments.)
I recommend the first method because it results in a deeply smokey flavor, ...
Posted in Beef, Butchery, grilling, Main Courses, outdoor cooking, Recipes, Technique, Video Also tagged bbq, grill, short ribs, video Comments closed
How To Make a Foie Gras au Torchon

How to make torchon de foie gras (This finished dish—foie, diced Granny Smith apple, toast, balsamic—and all slideshow pix below by Donna Turner Ruhlman)
Posted in Appetizers, Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, Recipes Also tagged A Hunger Artist, Bob del Grosso, immersion circulator, recipe, sous vide torchon recipe, torchon, torchon recipe Comments closed
The Birth of a Torchon
One of my favorite things on earth to eat is a well made foie gras torchon. It's a special preparation of foie gras, fat duck liver, that I first experienced at The French Laundry (the recipe is in The French Laundry Cookbook if you have it). It's a three day procedure and brings out the very best in the foie gras when done right. The duck liver is deveined, typically soaked in milk and salt to remove residual blood, then seasoned and, traditionally, rolled up in a kitchen towel (a torchon, in French), poached, rerolled to compact it and chilled. It's then eaten cold, a big fat slice of it, with some form of bread and a sweet-sour accompaniment. The biggest producer of foie gras in ...
Posted in Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, Guest Post, Seasonings and Spices Also tagged A Hunger Artist, Bob del Grosso, Chef Pardus, foie gras, guest post, Hudson Valley Foie Gras, immersion circulator, torchon Comments closed
GIVEAWAY! Sous Vide Immersion Circulator
YES! It's true! The mad genius at Polyscience, Philip Preston—creator of the anti-griddle, the smoke gun (looks like paraphernalia I used to oogle at High Times on Coventry in the 70s), and other magico creations to make cooking more fun—has sent me the latest version of the Polyscience professional immersion circulator for sous vide cooking to play with, something I am eagerly doing. But as I already have one, there is nothing for me to do but give this sleek machine away to one lucky reader!
First, the circulator: the original now seems like a little Datsun compared to this sleek Beemer. Its design has been honed, its size has been tightened, its power enhanced. This baby operates great.
Leave a comment on how you want to use the circulator along with a working ...
Posted in Giveaway, Kitchen Technology, Kitchen Tools, Recipes, Sponsored Also tagged giveaway, immersion circulator, Philip Preston, sous vide at home, sous vide machine, under pressure, using a immersion circulator Comments closed

















