Yesterday, while flying through the grocery aisles with one of those monstrous car carts, the kids content with “driving” the front end of the racing striped beast I had to maneuver through hordes of shoppers, I was shocked at seeing a pork roast labeled “pork brisket.” ‘Oh dear,’ I thought, ‘someone is new at the […]

I’m reposting this from 2009 because Easter is upon us. Lamb posts for some reason get the most hits here at She-Smoke headquarters. I have no idea why, but I love lamb and think it is the most underrated protein in the pasture. Go forth and baaa-rbecue. I’ve been on a lamb kick ever since […]

Who loves cookbooks, raise your hand. I do. I’d better. A few years ago someone asked me how many cookbooks I owned. I’d never even thought about it and off the cuff said, “I don’t know, twenty?” She coughed and sputtered and I realized that was a really low number, especially from a restaurant owner […]

My husband makes his mouthwatering beef stew just about any time of year, but for St. Patrick’s Day nothing beats his Guinness Beef Stew.  Not one to impart his recipes, for he claims he has none, and that cookbook authors are all a bunch of hooey..even his wife, I dragged this out of him years […]

I’ve been itching for a party. We moved between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and though there is no good time to move, I would gander that as one of the worst times to pack every Leggo, unmatched sock and chipped china plate from Grandma. I mean the holidays, really Julie, and I’m a caterer, which means […]