Sometimes a certain dish calls out to you, maybe prompted by a picture, a season, a memory, a craving, a passing aroma.  In paging through the recipes in this book one thing I really wanted to make was a barbecued beef sandwich that would taste like one from this...

This recipe attempts to solve a couple of eggplant problems: excessive moisture and an unpleasant texture best described as "spongy."  Grilling (vs. other cooking methods) itself solves the moisture by letting it all drip away.  To avoid sponginess we are slicing...

Apparently a Minneapolis tavern specialty, the Juicy Lucy is a burger with the cheese -- are you sitting down? -- inside. Wow, way to blow our minds, half of the Twin Cities!  I'm not sure what the advantage is to a cheese surprise but it's a cheeseburger and I...

I have made so many disappointing grilled, glazed pork tenderloins.  They look so good and yet they never seem to work for me.  I have the same relationship with J Crew clothes. Typically what happens is the glaze gets completely charred and never penetrates beyond...