Cooking

Outdoor cooking experiments—primarily on my Big Green Egg and new Traeger grill—are documented here. Posts recount brisket attempts, sous‑vide pork butt sessions and holiday tenderloin traditions, with candid notes on smoke, temperature and results.

Bottom starting the Big Green Egg and hoping I left enough charcoal in it to thaw the gasket so I can open it up. Finishing beef tenderloins on here for early Christmas dinner with my family today. 🤞🔥🧊

Big Green Egg kamado grill covered in snow smoking in a winter backyard patio

I made Banana Bread tonight. It seems I cook so rarely that everyone else was flabbergasted that I did it. So I decided it should get a blog post since it was such a special event. 😂

Freshly baked banana bread loaf in a dark nonstick pan resting on a gas stovetop, golden brown on top.

I made the best pan of Toffee Bars I’ve ever made. These are a holiday favorite of mine. My Mom has made them for me many times. My Grandma Rose would always seem to have a pan of them when we would visit the Farm. Just six ingredients. This batch was perfectly firm but soft.

Toffee bars with chocolate topping cut into rectangles spread across a wooden cutting board on a kitchen counter.

Mazie and her Cousin Nora wanted to bake this afternoon so they both decided to do something ad hoc featuring Nutella. Both were very tasty treats. 🤤

Crumbly Nutella dessert bars with butterscotch chips served on a colorful striped glass plate beside a larger serving plate Chocolate chunk cookies with flaky sea salt on a colorful rainbow glass plate, with more cookies on a round plate behind it.