I found this cookbook while going through my book things and FINALLY putting it all away. Two years ago in December I finished She-Smoke , t...

Today I finally finished baby proofing the upstairs. There is nothing like crossing off something from the "Big List of All Things...

The first thing I tried from my big box of Charbroil goodies , was their "Basic Rub" on a big fat ribeye steak. Why a steak? Let m...

I love mail. Especially boxes or thick bubble envelopes. Usually that means a book I've ordered has arrived. But the other day a big box...

The minute I posted about Soup Week on facebook, a cavalcade of responses came in. Seems like everyone was making soup. Italian Bread Soup, ...

Quick Chili is practically an oxymoron, but I like to keep ingredients on hand to whip up a batch on demand if need be. True chili should be...

This simple soup can be made with meat of your choice. I happen to have left over brisket in the fridge, and love the full flavor a little ...

This soup was fun to make with the kids. They liked playing with the colorful juices and making beet prints on paper. I left the beets fairl...

I've decided to make this soup week. I could tell you it is because soup simmers one's soul in the winter, melting the blues from th...

Thanksgiving day at the Reinhardt's isn't what you would call normal. For one, we go to work. Eric started about 4:30am. I followed ...

What can I say? Thanksgiving dinner is my favorite meal. You would think that after managing over 100 turkey orders, many of which are compl...

I have some wonderful neighbors in our little hood. We have an interesting street. It's kind of the intersection of many parts of Fremon...

I'm thankful for so much, that I thought I'd put a few of them down this week. To start, since we have vats of turkeys in the brine ...

As promised after my rant about our trainee at the restaurant that cut off the burnt ends of the brisket and put them in the scrap pile (br...

Thanksgiving week at Smokin' Pete's means we are drowning in gravy and are up to our elbows in brining turkeys. I'm working on ...

I've been shakin' things up here at the She-Smoke blog. Part of why I posted so little last month, aside from us being freakin' ...

I need to rant tonight. I left the restaurant earlier and our new cook trainee did something that still has my jaw dropped down. Not in a go...

For a barbecue blog, I sure post about cake a lot. Perhaps it's because food is a celebration to me, and many celebrations involve cake....

For two months, I have been hobbled without my camera. I kept holding off buying a new camera because I knew wasn't truly lost. It was u...

The other day I wanted to make Beer Can Chicken. One of my favorite grocery stores, Ballard Market, had two-for-one organic chickens so they...