My friend, Christo, made grilled bananas last week on the Weather Channel, the same day I was going to do these, so I held off a few days. They’re so good and so easy, though, that I just had to make them. It’s another great dessert to fix on Father’s Day that gives you time ... Read More »
Livefire Drunken Pound Cake
8 days ago
More and more, it’s proven to me that the grill improves almost everything, from bread to veggies to dessert. Pound cake is no exception! Part of the reason I was playing with desserts on the grill is that I received a “sample” of different Four Roses bourbons and wanted to use one in a dessert. ... Read More »
You Need A Grill For Grilled Cheese
23 days ago
How can you call a sandwich made in a skillet a “grilled” anything? In my world, that’s just fooling yourself! So how do you make grilled cheese on a grill? It’s easy… Just set up the grill for medium heat, and put the sandwich right on the grate. Turn it 90 degrees after a minute ... Read More »
Lobsters, Lobsters and Lobsters, Oh My!
23 days ago
It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US, which means lots of things around the country. Hopefully, foremost, it means a time to say thanks to all those military that have fallen in service to our country. With the long weekend most of us get to enjoy, the weekend has also come to mean the unofficial ... Read More »
Pretty Good BBQ 2013
29 days ago
Earlier this month, barbecue heroes came through Dayton, Ohio, to leave behind their incredible fingerprints on a neighborhood. Cooks from Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio set up on a grassy area behind a church on N. Main Street in Dayton to cook hundreds of pounds of barbecue with the sole intent of giving it ... Read More »
A Culinary Ode To The South
29 Apr ’13
After getting back from our recent trip to the South, I had really wanted to try to keep the spirit of our vacation going. As long as I can. No matter how hard it can be. To do this, I decided to use my stomach. Or maybe I should say my tastebuds. Yeah, that sounds ... Read More »
Atlantic Beach Via Char-Broil
24 Apr ’13
Last week, my wife and I went on a bit of a vacation, based on a 2nd annual Char-Broil All Stars meeting. This year, the meeting was in Atlantic Beach, Florida, at Ocean One Resort & Spa, right on the beach. Life is rough, huh? This was from our first morning on the beach… Last ... Read More »
Brat Sandwiches
28 Mar ’13
To continue getting ready for the final push of this season’s basketball tournament (you know the one… you have at least 2-3 brackets going, even though Harvard threw you off, too!), I had to keep going with some great food to have. Again, I need to disclose that the bratwurst used was supplied to me ... Read More »
Slam Dunk Sauerkraut and Sausage
27 Mar ’13
Johnsonville Sausage recently asked me to come up with some ideas to have for the upcoming weekend’s basketball tournament. I think I have to polish gym floors or clean backboard glass if I say what the tournament is, so I’ll just say it rhymes with “parch gladness”! And, for this quick and easy recipe, Johnsonville ... Read More »
Photographers’ Food Photos Part 2
8 Mar ’13
This is a follow-up to Photographers’ Food Photos Part 1, but concentrating on some really cool portrait shots. To recap, a bunch of fellow-photographers came to my house to photograph food. Most aren’t food photographers, so it was fun seeing how they approached shooting food shots. The portraits here are the work of John Flynn, ... Read More »
Photographers’ Food Photos Part 1
3 Mar ’13
Readers of Livefire may or may not notice that my photos are changing lately, and, I think, getting better. I owe at least part of it to joining a local photography club, the Focus Photo Club. The club is not food-photo oriented, but it is competition-based. Every month at the meetings, people enter both print ... Read More »
New Review – Maguey Sweet Sap
24 Feb ’13
Usually, when I try a product for a review, I find something I don’t like about it. I’ve not done some reviews just because I’m not a critic, and I want to say at least some good about whatever I review. It’s pretty common to find things I like and maybe a couple things I ... Read More »