March Madness Favorite Foods It’s the start of March Madness and I just watched this very interesting slideshow at Food Management, a website that “features trends and best practices, products and solutions’ for noncommercial foodservice institutions. With the start of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, they are looking at 16 schools in the tournament and put […]
Helping A High School Senior Learn How to Cook A few weeks ago, my next door neighbor, Nat, asked me to mentor him throughout his 14-day high school senior project. Students could pick any project they wanted, and Nat decided to teach himself how to cook. Nat chose a different meal to cook each night […]
A Mother’s Day Tribute to My Mom Today is May 12, 2013 and it is Mother’s Day. I lost my mom this year back in March and have been thinking about her today. My mom was from Denmark and although she wasn’t the best cook around, she taught me a lot about food and how […]
Merci Chocolates Giveaway (US only) (Giveaway Over – We picked a winner) We Have a Winner – Ruth N I was surprised by the responses on my Facebook page when I asked which type of chocolate my friends enjoyed more, milk or dark. Surprisingly, more of you seem to like dark chocolate over milk chocolate. […]
Super Bowl Commercials for 2013 As expected, there were some very funny food-related commercials this year and I wanted to share one of my favorites, the Oreo ad. I also went back and found some past year commercials that made me laugh.
On Thursday I had to have a cracked, back tooth extracted. #18 to be precise. I knew it was going to be difficult to eat for a few days because of the swelling and soreness from having someone in there with dental pliers yanking a piece of me out and leaving a gaping hole. […]
Some of My Favorite St Croix Restaurants I don’t know about you, but I love open-air restaurants near the ocean. I especially like funky joints with lots of character and tons of energy. Add some great food, a good selection of adult beverages and lots of locals – even better. I’m down in St. Croix, […]
Merry Christmas & Season’s Greetings I would like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and to those who celebrate Christmas, a very Merry Christmas. Thanks to everyone for supporting The Reluctant Gourmet this year. I am especially grateful to those of you who have shared a recipe or cooking technique with a friend or family member. […]
Happy Holidays! This is one of my favorite times of year with the lights, classic Christmas music and lots of get togethers with family and friends. I wanted to share with you a few photos from my Christmas past along with some photos of my girls celebrating the holidays over the past few years. I’m […]
Social Networking With The Reluctant Gourmet What is Social Networking? “A social structure that focuses on building on-line communities of people who share similar interests and activities (in this case cooking) and who are interested in exploring those activities (cooking) with a group of others.” Facebook “Facebook is a popular, free-access social networking […]
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How to Grill Your Turkey on a Gas Grill
Something Different – Grilling Your Turkey I wanted to share with you a novel way we cooked our turkey one year while we were still living in Park City, Utah. We grilled it on the barbecue. Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves, “RG, get real. We’ve been grilling our bird for […]
Turkey Buying and Cooking Tips With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy talking turkey including some tips on choosing a bird and how to cook it. You would think cooking a turkey is not that big a deal but looking at all the articles in the current November issues of cooking […]
Moist Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
How To Roast A Perfectly Moist Turkey A whole turkey, perfectly cooked, juicy in thigh and breast and richly caramelized all over is a thing of beauty, but it is, indeed a rare bird. Turkeys are large, they have a big hole inside them. They are thick in some places and thinner in others. They […]
