Category: Main Courses
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MasterChef Pork Butt Chili
This recipe is meant to be made in a pressure cooker, which reduces the cooking time to 1 hour (or so). True chili purists will want to make this in an enameled cast iron Dutch oven, and home chefs without either one can feel free to make it in the biggest pot you have. Follow…
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Ben’s Life-Altering Cajun Turkey
The Cajun-spiced deep-fried turkey has become very popular since Emeril introduced it on Food Network several years ago. Most of us don’t have a fryer large enough for a turkey, nor do we want to spend $50 on a fryer and another $50 on peanut oil, so an alternative is to “brine” the turkey from…
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Perfect Thanksgiving Turkey (brined)
For this recipe, you will need three 10-pound bags of ice, 1 gallon of apple cider vinegar, 1-2 boxes of Morton’s Course Kosher Salt (see the recipe below for different types of salt), white sugar, canola oil, aluminum foil, a cooler, a roasting pan, a meat thermometer, and, of course, a turkey. Do not brine…
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Spicy Goat Cheese Crab Cakes
So I love crab cakes. They were just about the only seafood I could stomach, growing up in West Texas so far from the sea. Needless to say, the seafood we got out there wasn’t very fresh. Exceptional crab cakes can be made with canned crab meat, and now they have the new vacuum-sealed packages…
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Ben’s Recipe for a Happy Life
1 generous handful of laughter. Laugh every day. If you find yourself not laughing frequently, something is wrong. Offer to walk your neighbor’s puppy dog, and let him lick you all over your face and stick his cold nose in your ear. That’ll get you giggling! 1 reserved teaspoon of religion. Spirituality is important for…