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St. Louis Style BBQ Ribs on the Grill
It’s a fingers only meat buffet at Real Food Girl: Unmodified today! We’re grilling Ribs! As far as I’m concerned, ribs could easily be categorized as one of the really good things about life. Whether they’re baby back, St. Louis, Country Style or beef ribs, they are just darn tasty. I love that you don’t need silverware and it’s acceptable to get stupid-messy while eating them. I just plain love good BBQ ribs. Don’t you? We’re either not exploring enough or we’re looking in the wrong places here in SC, because we’ve yet to find one BBQ joint that we want to “write home” about. We were told about this one place that we…
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Jalapeno Bacon Deviled Eggs
Bacon. I really could just leave it at that, but I have a feeling you guys may want to know a little more about these eggs other than the fact that they contain bacon. Not that you would care at this point, because, well, BACON! I don’t know too many people that will turn down a well-prepared deviled egg. The Stud Muffin can eat like 6 of these in one sitting. The man has never met a boiled egg he didn’t like. Seriously. Imagine how happy I was when I came across something that inspired me to take my deviled eggs to the next level. I was H.A.P.P.Y people. Like happy-dance-jazz-hands happy. That’s…
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Not Yo Mama’s Potato Salad
I have a sensitive palate. It’s easily assaulted, intensely opinionated and it rarely fails me when trying to predict all the ingredients in a dish from a restaurant that I wish to duplicate at home. Because of this, I sheepishly admit that my homemade potato salad was rather simple and unassuming. I am a firm believer that simple food is good food. Taking a basic potato and using a few simple ingredients to enhance the flavor of the potato and make it shine is the mark of a good chef. While in culinary school I learned about a Student Culinary Competition Team that competed on a national level for the American Culinary…