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The Smoker Project – Rehabilitating a Backyard Cooker
When you decide that you want to get into cooking as more than just sustenance and more of a hobby, one of the things you have to do is evaluate your gear. You don’t have to have the best gear and you...
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Bob the Cook’s Pit
One of my favorite things to do in life is to cozy up with a beer on a Texas afternoon and do some outdoor cooking. It’s what Arcadia is all about…sharing what you know and do well with your friends...
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The Best Soup I’ve Ever Tasted
I love soup, and when the weather starts turning cool I try to eat soup as often as possible. A lot of people will choose the salad when given the choice, but I often go with the soup as a first...
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Burgers with Bacon and Blue Cheese (The Great BBB)
Everyone loves a burger…everyone (with the exception of my wife) loves it more when it has bacon and blue cheese on it. There are only two cooking methods for a burger: flat top or grill. The both have...
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Shiner Bocker Beans
You know what I like? Beans. You know what else? Shiner Bock. You know what’s REEEEEEL good together? Beans and Shiner Bock. Your life as a bean-eater is about to change. For the better. Bocker better....
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Dad’s Mustard Brisket
Of all the things I cook, the most requested recipe is brisket. As a Texan, it should be required in order to graduate high school to know how to properly cook a brisket. It doesn’t have to be smoked,...
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Victual Files: Another Hole in the Wall
If you weren’t going to Newcastle, Texas, you probably wouldn’t have much of a reason to be there. It’s up on the tip of the rolling plains where the hill country turns into dusty west Texas. Around...
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Badass Buffalo Wings
If you’ve spent anytime in a sports bar and/or Hooters, then you’ve been exposed to the chicken wing. Some approach chicken wings like a necessary evil in order to go to crappy restaurants with big...
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Grilling A Proper Ribeye
As luck would have it, we just got a shipment of fresh beef from slaughter off the ranch. As a “quality control” measure, we try to reserve a steer a year to make sure the bloodline we are breeding is...
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St. Mary’s Sausagefest
Out here in north Texas, when the Fall hits we get to take our choice of festivals every weekend. From cooking competitions to fundraisers and heritage celebrations, we get a decent selection of...
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