Big Ed on September 27th, 2009

I live in Roswell, Ga, a city of 80,000 people located about 20 miles north of downtown Atlanta. Roswell is one of Atlanta’s wealthier suburbs, but we also have a large immigrant population that live up and down Roswell Rd in all the old apartments that dot the landscape.
Yesterday morning I was taking my son [...]

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Big Ed on August 7th, 2009

Can’t think about politics or too much else today. I’ve got to cook for 30 to 40 people tonight. It’s a friend of ours 50 birthday. We’re having a pool party for him in Sandy Springs this evening.
I’ll be serving butifarra sandwiches, (it’s Peruvian spiced pork with an onion salsa topping) Big Ed’s hot wings, [...]

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Big Ed on July 14th, 2009

The only thing I did different is use limes instead of lemons. I don’t care for lemons. I also cooked a pound of dry spaghetti, placed it on the plate first, then added the chicken around it, and spooned some of the sauce and capers on top of the chicken and pasta.
You can get the [...]

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Big Ed on June 14th, 2009

Our friends at PETA are at it again. This time they are worried about the self esteem of dead fish. Apparently being dead isn’t enough of a problem.
The American Veterinary Medical Association(AVMA), based in Schaumburg Il, is having its yearly convention in Seattle, Wa this year, and one of Seattle’s most famous attractions is the fish-throwing, [...]

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Big Ed on June 7th, 2009

I sleep walk, sleep eat and now possibly sleep drink.
This was on my bathroom counter this morning. It’s a half eaten sausage from last nights dinner stuck inside a Jim Beam Racing shot glass.
How and why they got there I’ve got no idea. OK, maybe I have some idea.
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Big Ed on May 1st, 2009

The more swine we eat the less of them to give us the flu. Is that how it works?
Here is one of my favorite rib recipes. Instead of a traditional BBQ sauce you make a julienned apple glaze that is served with the ribs.  The ribs need to marinate over night. So you do have [...]

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