Meat

One of the things I love about my wife is that she is a creature of habit. Despite the regularly changing work schedule that seems to be the norm when you work at a hospital, she enjoys a good routine.

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Bell pepper, Chicken, Cooking, Home, Meat, Onion, Poultry

Toddler Haute Cuisine

August 16, 2010 By PJ Mullen 14 Comments

One of the challenges I’m preparing for now that we have two children in the house is organizing meal time, especially finding something that your uber picky two year old will actually eat. Fortunately, my wife is still on maternity leave, so I have two weeks left before this could really become a problem.

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Beef, Black pepper, Cook, Food, Ground meat, Hamburger, Home, Meat

The monster at the end of this post

March 30, 2010 By PJ Mullen 30 Comments

What did that say? In the title, what did that say? Did it say that there was a monster at the end of this post??? It did? Oh, I am so scared of monsters!!!

Filed Under: Random Thoughts Tagged With: Cheese, Food, Home, Meat

Cold smoking

October 9, 2009 By PJ Mullen 32 Comments

Ever since I made my first batch of homemade sausage a few years ago I have had an bit of an obsession. While still in the early stage of my sausage making career, I’ve made traditional hot and sweet Italian and caramelized red pepper and onion sausages, as well as a non-traditional German Weisswurst. The [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen, Fatherhood Friday Tagged With: Barbecue, Barbecue sauce, Food, Mario Batali, Meat, Sausage, Shopping, Smoking

What the frikadeller?

August 10, 2009 By PJ Mullen 11 Comments

When our son was first born my in-laws came to visit to meet their grandson and to help us ease into our routine as new parents. My mother-in-law was extremely helpful around the house and even took over dinner preparation duties. During their visit I was introduced to frikadeller, which I later found out is [...]

Filed Under: Dad in the Kitchen Tagged With: Beef, Cook, Denmark, Frying pan, Grocery store, Home, Meat, Worcestershire sauce

RMDM Kitchen: Holiday Sausage

December 15, 2008 By PJ Mullen 2 Comments

Welcome back to the RMDM Kitchen. Today we’re discussing one of my favorite topics – sausage. More specifically I want to talk about the holiday sausage that I made a few weeks ago with the help of a friend and my wife. This is something that I have wanted to do for a while and [...]