Category: Blog
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The easiest way to turn a whole pumpkin into food
I know you. Because you’re like me. You pulled out all the stops for Halloween, but now there’s still a few uncarved pumpkins sitting in your front yard. They’re okay there for awhile. (Maybe people will think you’ve decorated for Thanksgiving. Riiiiiight.) Most pumpkin varieties will even endure sub-freezing temps for a few nights, so…
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Sicilian Sunday Lunch
(Most photos in this post appear courtesy of Christian Eggers. You should follow him on Instagram. Seriously.) It feels a bit weird to be writing this blog post. Looking back, I posted only once in 2018, and once in 2017. I stopped blogging about FRANK dinners in 2016 because we started doing them back-to-back, so…
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About Last Night
Today I turn 40. And I have to admit, I’m sorta speechless…which is unusual for me. I always have plenty to say about anti-fungal-med.com. The first thing that comes to mind was my 30th birthday. I was in Seattle with my friend-family up there, and we filled our backpacks with great wine, iron skillets, and…
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A FRANK Tale: Side B
Photos in this blog appear courtesy of Christian Eggers, unless otherwise stated. It has been 1 year, 1 month, and 2 weeks since I blogged last. I’m lame. Actually, I’m just incredibly busy. FRANK’s momentum has skyrocketed (along with its popularity…we’ve got almost 8,000 people on our list now) and it has kept me so…
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Laughably-Easy Lard (or Bacon Fat) Pastry Crust
The perfect pastry crust eludes most of us…seemingly thousands of infinitely-thin layers that are tender, but shatter in your mouth while still remaining moist and succulent. It usually involves massive amounts of butter cut into the flour at just the right temperature to just the right texture…then a chill in the fridge…then the addition of…
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Cooking with Tobacco
As popular as tobacco is in this world, and has been for centuries, it’s a little strange to me that we don’t cook with it more often. Granted, I don’t smoke cigarettes (though I’ll enjoy the rare cigar or pipe on special occasions), but tobacco has a wonderful, deep, earthy, hay-like flavor which can be…
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How to Find Chanterelles
It’s official…Chanterelle season has started. How do I know? Because I found one yesterday. The Chanterelle season in the US normally begins in early June in the southern areas along the Gulf coast. North Texas doesn’t usually start seeing them until later in June, but the recent flooding has brought them early. Northern climes may…
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I am Indiana Jones…er Colorado Jones, at least
While most of you have discovered my blog because of cooking, I was a travel writer long before anyone called me “chef.” Because I have an insatiable thirst for adventure. One of my favorite places in all the world is a little town in Colorado called Glenwood Springs, perched at the west end of a…
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Come Forage with FRANK!
There has been a lot of interest in our foraging habits since the article about us in Edible Magazine came out this spring. It is foraging season in Dallas right now! With the unusual weather patterns we’ve had over the past month, it’s shaping up to be an epic year for morel hunting in North Texas. We…