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Category Archives: Seasonal
Thanksgiving nachos. For realz.
So, this happened: http://pgplate.com/how-to/99-bucking-tradition-with-thanksgiving-nachos It’s that time of year, y’all. Anything is possible. Even Thanksgiving nachos with smoked turkey, gravy, Monterey Jack and a cranberry-roasted tomatillo salsa. A recipe for the salsa: This is what I did. There are obviously … Continue reading
Posted in Family, holiday, Ingredients, Nontraditional, Recipes, Seasonal
Tagged cranberry, cranberry salsa, gravy, holiday, nachos, smoked turkey, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving nachos, tomatillo, turkey
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The Franktuary truck.
Sure, it’s a hotdog. That’s its heart, its essence. Even hyphenated it remains simple. Call it all-beef or all-beef and grass-fed and remains a humble thing. A Pittsburgh thing, even. As much as wings and fries-and-slaw are stereotypes around this … Continue reading
Posted in Ambience, Cheap eats, Downtown, Ingredients, Neighborhoods, Nontraditional, Oakland, Presentation, Seasonal, South Side, Traditional
Tagged beef, cheap eats, Food, Franktuary, grass-fed, hot dog. poutine, hotdog, Pittsburgh, vegetarian
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Salt of the Earth, Part II.
Pork baguette. Doesn’t sound like much, maybe just menu filler or something to get along a fancy takeout pizza someplace, a pimped-out hoagie. But no. This take on Vietnamese bahn mi the best thing I’ve put in my mouth at … Continue reading
Posted in Ambience, Garfield, Ingredients, Neighborhoods, Nontraditional, Presentation, Seasonal, Service
Tagged Food, Kevin Sousa, Pittsburgh, pleasure, pork, salt, Salt of the Earth
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Doing its own thing.
In among the weeds on a sidewalk on Smallman in the Strip between 22nd and 23d was this little, struggling tomato plant, delightfully out of place.
Posted in Ingredients, Neighborhoods, Seasonal, Strip District
Tagged Food, forage, garden, Pittsburgh, Strip District, tomato, tomatoes, wild
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Berries in white-wine syrup with mint and jalapeño.
One of the most versatile things I tend to make in the summer goes as well with cheesecake or ice cream as it does with grilled or roasted meat like lamb or chicken or turkey. The warm syrup macerates the … Continue reading
Posted in Cheap eats, Ingredients, Lawrenceville, Nontraditional, Recipes, Seasonal, Techniques and tools
Tagged berries, blackberries, blueberries, cheap eats, Food, friends, jalapeño, Lawrenceville, mint, Pittsburgh, recipe, strawberries, syrup, vinho verde, white wine
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Roasted-corn and tomato summer salad.
I forget what the inspiration was the first time I made this. I know I took it to someone’s house for a summer party, but the rest is lost to me. The last few years, it’s become a summer staple … Continue reading
Posted in Cheap eats, Family, Ingredients, Presentation, Recipes, Seasonal, Techniques and tools
Tagged basil, cider, corn, Food, olive oil, Pittsburgh, recipe, salad, shallot, summer, tomato, tomatoes, vinegar
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The Milk Shake Factory.
This is probably one of the many ways in which I’m broken. I don’t want a milk shake in the summer. When it’s hot, the idea of all that thick dairyness sliding down my throat and sitting heavy in my … Continue reading
Posted in Ambience, Ingredients, Neighborhoods, Seasonal, Service, South Side
Tagged authenticity, caramel, cheap eats, chocolate, Food, identity, milk, milk shake, Pittsburgh, pleasure, pseudonym, salt, salted caramels, South Side
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Crested Duck Charcuterie.
Usually I wouldn’t advise you to seek out specialty meats from a software engineer. With Adam Costa, it’s a little different. He’s one of the two brothers behind Crested Duck Charcuterie at the Pittsburgh Public Market. The other brother, Kevin, … Continue reading
Posted in Beer, Ingredients, Neighborhoods, Recipes, Seasonal, Strip District
Tagged beer, charcuterie, elk, Food, meat, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Public Market, rillette, salt, Strip District, Troegenator, Troegs
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Deer jerky.
Almost sounds like a diary entry. Or an ode. Some kind of deer-hunting season started yesterday. I read that somewhere. For me, it means one thing: my in-laws’ deer jerky. My father-in-law has heads on the the walls of his … Continue reading
Posted in Beaver County, Family, Ingredients, Seasonal, Traditional
Tagged authenticity, Beaver County, beer, Busch, deer, Food, guns, hunting, jerky, Pittsburgh, venison
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