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Baking

Alabama Foodways & History
Baking in cast iron skillets
Best Basic Recipes
Butter Cake by Leah Chase
Flour for Gluten Free Bread
Ina's Blueberry Coffee Cake Muffins
Making Sourdough Starter
Spiced Pumpkin Cake
Zucchini Bread & links to Zuc Recipes

Beef Recipes/Methods

Cook Cheap Steak & Expensive Steak
Corned Beef
Hot Dog Chili Sauce
London Broil – Buying, Cooking
Pastrami from bought corned beef
Roast Tenderloin Butchering & Roasting
Smoked Beef Ribs ToTry
Texas Smoked Pastrami
Trimming a whole beef tenderloin

Brining

Brine Calculator
Pop's brining, cure, pickling, corning
Salt Brining Calculator
Science Behind Brining
Thawing/Brinning a Turkey

Breakfast

Chilaquiles ToTry
Difference Between Frittata, Quiche, & Strata?
Ina's Hash Browns

Butchering

10 Beef Cut Graphics
10 Cuts-Pork Loin
Beef Cuts
Beef Roasts: Selection and Processing
Beef Steaks: Selection and Processing
Brisket Butchering 101
Brisket Selection & Preparation
Butchering Videos
Cuts of Beef
Every Cut of Steak Explained Video
Jim Kerstein Butchering Vids
MeatUp Butchering
Pork Anatomy Diagram
Pork Butts into Various Products
Roast Tenderloin Butchering & Roasting
The Butcher's Knot
The Butcher's Knots simpler
Trimming a whole beef tenderloin

Chiles

About Chipotle Peppers
Chiles 101
Chiles, Dried
Preparing Whole Dried Chilies
Salsa Recipes

Cast Iron Cookware

CI Hand Molding
Dating Cast Iron
Cast Iron From Sundown Farms
Inventory
Lodge History
Lodge Item Numbers
Our Restoring Methodology
Nickle/Chrome Plating
Small Square Skillets

Cast Iron

Cast Iron Size & Capacity Charts
Chemistry of Cast Iron Seasoning
ERIE Skillet Article

Chef's Recipes

Carrabba's CopyCat Recipes
Chef John Folse's recipes
Chef John's 19 Best Italian Recipes
Franklin's Sauce, Beans, Ribs
HowToBBQRight.com
Ina Garten's Site
Jeff Phillips' Recipes at SMF
Korean Recipes
Paul Prudhomme's Cajun/Creole classics
Paul Prudhomme's Videos
Recipes from Chef Rick Bayless
Rick Bayless Mex Recipes
Steven Raichlen's BBQ Bible
The Backyard Southern Gourmet
The Mediterranean Dish

Curing Methods/Recipes

30 Cured Meats
Cure Calculator
Cure calculator by Dr.Jeff
Cured Meat Type Chart
Curing Salts Explained
Pop's brining, cure, pickling, corning
Pop's Curing Time Article
Susan Minor's site at WayBackMachine
Texas Smoked Pastrami

Equipment

Asado Argentinian Cross
Low Temp Controller
Schwenker (German Swinging Grill)
Southwest Disk, Discada

Fermenting

Fermentation Recipes
Jas. Townsend Videos of very old recipes

Fish

Blackened Catfish & Pontchartrain Sauce
Catfish – Lemon Pepper Fried
Catfish Oven-Fried
Fried Whole Catfish

Food Blogs

Camellia Brand Blog
Chili Pepper Madness
Drick's Rambling Cafe
Fat Old Canadian Guy's Blog
Jessica Gavin-Culinary Scientist
Marion’s Kitchen
PatioDaddio's Recipes
Real Cajun Recipes with Jacques Gaspard
RecipeCurio.com
RouxBDoo's Food Blog
Serious Eats
SkinnyTaste.com
SouthernKitchen.com
SpendWithPennies.com
The Daring Gourmet– British Dishes etal
Traditional Cooking School

Food Preservation

Ball Canning Recipes
Dehydrating – Prep, Pretreat thru Storage of Fruit
Dehydrating – Pretreat Fruit
Preserving Gourmet Garlic
Tomato Quantity Conversions
Tomato Sauce From Fresh Tomatoes
Tomato Zesty Salsa by Ball
Univ. Georgia Home Food Preservation
YouTube Traditional Cooking by Wardee

Food Science

Food Myths at SeriousEats.com
Herbs – Convert Fresh to Dried

From SusanMinor.com

Aged Sirloin & Brisket
Brisket Pachanga
Calling All Mop Recipes
Curing & Brining
Corned Beef to Pastrami
Stuffed Pork Loin
WTS Brisket

Health

15 Ways to Reduce Lectins in Your Diet

Misc Recipe Sites & Resources

Chasing Chilli
Food Lab: Dry-Aging Beef
How It’s Cooked: What's your meat doing?
PepperScale.com
Recipe of Health
So You've Overcooked Your Meat

Pasta Dishes

Roman-Style Fettuccine With Alfredo Sauce

Poultry Recipes

Carrabba's Chicken Marsala
Chicken Lazone
Chicken, Spicy Roasted
Greek Chicken Gyros
Grilled Chicken Salad with Feta, Fresh Corn, and Blueberries
Mediteranean Grilled Chick+Dill Greek Yogurt Sauce
Safely Thawing Turkey–ThermoWorks
Smoked Party Wings ToTry
Smoked Turkey with Bacon Butter
Thawing/Brinning a Turkey

Pork Recipes

Bacon Many Ways
Cajun Pig Roast with Sides
Chef John's Porchetta ToTry
Pesto Stuffed Pork Chops ToTry
Pork Bastes Recipes
Smoked Pork Crown Roast
Sweet Tea Brined Pork Chops
Tasso by Len Poli's

Relishes

Giardiniera, Chicago-style ToTry

Salads

Corn – Frito Corn Salad ToTry
Greek Garbanzo Bean Salad ToTry
Greek Green Bean Salad
Grilled Chicken Salad with Feta, Fresh Corn, and Blueberries
Potato Salad Ideas
Summer Corn Salad ToTry

Sausage

Cured Meat Type Chart

Sauces/Dressings

Hot Bacon Dressing
Remoulade Sauce spicy

Salmon/Fish Smoking

Salmon Advice by Wade
Smoked Salmon with recipe, instructions
Wade in Woodchurch lessons from Forman's in London
Wades Long Salmon Smoke

Seafood Recipes

Boiled Crawfish & Shrimp LA Style
Buttermilk Fried Oysters with Remoulade
Cajun Crab Cakes with Jalapeno Remoulade
Cajun Paella
Grilled Shrimp w/ Roasted Garlic-Cilantro Sauce
Louisiana Barbecued Shrimp
Salmon, How to Grill by The Mediterranean Dish
Seafood Cioppino (Stew)
Shrimp & Grits with Andouille Gravy ToTry
Shrimp Fra Diavolo ToTry
Shrimp Remoulade & Boil
Shrimp Scampi & Other Quick Shrimp Dishes
Smoked Shrimp w/ Butter
Spicy Creole Shrimp Dip

Sides

Ancient Ingredient: Hominy ToTry
Cabbage Fried with Bacon
Garlic Herb Roasted Potatoes
Griddle Grilled Corn Cakes
Grilled Chipotle Sweet Potatoes ToTry
Grilled Corn w/ Basil Butter ToTry
Mashed Potatoes – Tyler Florence
Polenta Creamy Romanian
Squeezebox Sweet Potatoes
Sun Dried Tomato Pesto

Smoking Curing Sites

Cold Smoking
Nat. Ct. Home Food Pres-Smoking, Curing
Texas BBQ Posse Blog
Texas Smoked Pastrami
The BBQ Brethren
Understanding Smoke Management

Supplies

Hoosier Hill Farm
Masterbuilt
My Spice Sage
ThermoWorks

Smoking Methods/Recipes

Brisket Butchering 101
Brisket Selection & Preparation
Cold Smoking by Webliny Domowe
Masterbuilt Smoke Recipes
Pastrami from bought corned beef
Smoke Chamber Methods Multple Meats
Smoked Beef Ribs ToTry
Smoked Pork Crown Roast
Steven Raichlen BBQ Basics
Tasso by Len Poli's
Tasso Smoked by Chef John Folse

Southern Comfort

Biscuits & Burlap – NEW
Fried Cornbread- Hoe Cakes
Griddle Grilled Corn Cakes
Ina's Hash Browns
Seafood Cioppino (Stew)
Southern Living Casseroles
Southern Pork Chop & Rice Casserole
SouthernKitchen.com

Old Cookbooks & History

1871 N Carolina Cookbook
1878 Gulf City Cookbook
18th Century Fried Chicken
Ancient Ingredient: Hominy ToTry
Baking in cast iron skillets
Civil War Recipes
Colonial Recipes from Old VA & Maryland
Cooking in Creole Days 1904
Dishes/Beverages of old South, 1917
Geo Washington Carver's How to Cook Cowpeas
German Recipes & Sausage History
Historic Cookbook Project
Historic cookbooks 1900 – 1910
History of smoked brisket in TX
Jas. Townsend Videos of very old recipes
Madame Begue's Cookbook
Recipes of the North and the South 1908
Secrets of Meat Curing Sausage Making, 1922
The Larder- Southern Foodways
The Virginia Housewife
Traditional Cooking School
YouTube Traditional Cooking by Wardee

Videos

Butchering Videos
Central Texas BBQ
Jas. Townsend Videos of very old recipes
Paul Prudhomme's Videos
Science Behind Brining
Slow Roasting Whole Pig in SC
The Best BBQ Pitmasters
Videos by Cajun Chefs
White Thunder BBQ

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