An Ode To Summer, My Favorite Grill and Popsicles

Helllloooo summer! While some of you might go out this weekend and celebrate the last handful of days to be outdoors comfortably until sometime in mid-October, I’m going to do my best to enjoy what is traditionally the best season for leisure. And while some people (the smart ones) view…

Baking Italian Tomato Sauce And Enjoying Jimmy’s At Home

Jimmy’s is one of the first iconic brands I encountered when moving to Dallas. While I’ve seen their sausage on many menus, my favorite way to enjoy the DiCarlo’s links is at home on a Sunday with a bottle of red wine and a mountain of spaghetti. If my story…

100 Favorite Dishes, No. 84: Brisket Tacos At Manny’s

To prepare for this fall’s Best of Dallas® 2012 issue, we’re counting down (in no particular order) our 100 Favorite Dishes. If there’s a dish you think we need to try, leave it in the comments, or email me. Brisket Tacos: perhaps one of the few foods Dallas can take…

Chef Tim Love Has Some Really Expensive Kitchen Tools to Sell You

Tim Love, you cheeky monkey: Costco wasn’t enough was it? After announcing a line or sauces and rubs to be featured at the discount store, and endorsing Hellmann’s mayonnaise in a mock culinary competition, the Fort Worth chef known for his burger shack, Woodshed and the more polished Lonesome Dove,…

This Memorial Day, Grill Up Some Cupcakes

Looking for something different to grill over the upcoming America-grill-fest weekend? Hufpo found these Cupcakewurst, which would surely be a show stopper. Made with the same casing used to pack real animal sausage, chocolate batter is piped in, sort of the same way one would fill a water balloon, tied…

Watch the Invention That Will Solve All of Our Stubborn Ketchup-Bottle Problems

Apocalypse reversed. Stuffed in a lab for a couple of months, a few Really Smart People (it’s fair to imagine the crisp white coats and twirling test tubes at this point) have discovered an innovation to cure the Heinz-Bottle-Knife-Clang and Mayonnaise-Flung-to-Crotch-Syndrome: LiquiGlide. (Video below) Before coming in second place at…

The Meddlesome Moth Serves A State Fair-esque Treat, Minus the Food Coma

The dish reads from the Meddlesome Moth’s menu like a classic State Fair artery-clogger: “Nueske’s Bacon Lollipops with funnel cake and maple hollandaise.” Sounds like a food coma waiting to happen, right? Slabs of high-quality Nueske’s bacon are sliced about three-eighths of an inch thick and threaded on wooden skewers…