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112 recipes

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Campanelle Pasta with Sausage and Cherry Tomatoes

It’s pasta wednesday again. The thought of having what the kids want (noodles, jar sauce!) fills you with dread.

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Butternut Squash, Kale, and Bacon tacos

It was Tuesday. You know what that means…. TACOS! But after a long stretch of eating old school crunchy tacos, I needed something different.

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Ritz Cracker Cod

Ritz crackers hold a special place in the pantheon of crackers. Golden, buttery, slightly salty, crisp but yielding, and addictive.

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Roast Pork Shoulder with Rosemary and Garlic

Rosemary + garlic + pork slow roasted?!? Yes please!!!

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Cauliflower Parm

Delicious and healthy alternative to Chicken Parm. It’s easy to make too!

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Shrimp Creole

Easy shrimp creole with deliciousness maximized. Perfect for a quick Fat Tuesday feast.

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Pork Tenderloin Medallions with Mushrooms

It’s winter! That means wintery things. Warm, delicious comfort food that makes you forget the freezing cold you have to fight every day. It also means fighting the battle of the bulge.

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White Bean Cakes

Meatless monday magic. Savory bean cakes, creamy egg, peppery arugala bright dressing. Deliciousness Maximized.

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Shrimp and Grits

Southern goodness. Classic for brunch with a glass of California chardonnay. Great for dinner with a light Pinot Noir. Comforting any time of day, and dead easy to make.

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Sea Bass, Artichokes, Cherry Tomato

Kick ass, Sea bass! Pan seared sea bass, crispy artichokes, kicking sauce. Deliciousness Maximized.

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Mississippi Roast

If you haven’t made Mississippi Roast yet, you need to drop everything and go to the grocery store to get yourself a chuck roast. This stuff is amazing.

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Steak Kebat

Steak Kebat: Delicious steak, soft but crisp onions, juicy tomato, beautiful spice blend with a bit of kick to keep you company. Try this once, and you’ll be making it again and again and again and…..

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Chicken, Artichoke, White Wine

Super awesome weeknight chicken backed up by artichokes, capers, and white wine. Yumm and totally keto.

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Shaking Beef

Deliciously tender beef nuggets, basked in a one-two-three punch of oyster, fish, and soy sauce, on top of a raft of greens that could even be considered vaguely healthy.

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Smoked Tri-Tip

Sultry. Complex. On the surface, cut from standard cloth, but when tasting it turns out exotic and rich. That is smoked tri-tip.

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Mushroom Bourguignon

Do you have a vegan friend coming over? Has your SO decided that this is the year you will finally adhere to meatless monday? Are you plant-based curious?

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Roasted Salmon with Lemon, Onion, and Capers

Salmon slow roasted with lemon, onion, caper, dill business on top. It’s hard to make salmon more delicious.

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Smoked Kielbasa, Cauliflower, Onions

Smokey delicious kielbasa, carmelized cauliflower with some zing and zip. Easy weekday win.

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Pork Chili Verde

Comfort often comes at a price. Tons of ingredients. An arduous journey through prep. Long, slow cooks. Many ways to mess up.

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Bistek Tagalog

A well proven formula: steak + onions + garlic = yum. Thinly slice the steak, add some cheese, and you have the makings of an awesome cheese steak.

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Steak Fajita

Forget Taco Tuesday. Fajita up your life with chili lime marinated steak and sultry caramelized veggies.

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Shrimp & Andouille Skewers

Spicy shrimp and sausage awesomeness. Make this as the warm up for your grill party and you’ll be a hero. Serves n – scale as needed.

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Short Rib Coconut Curry

Melty short rib yum covered in spicy awesome sauce. Made in the instant pot, this is not quite beef rendang. Think of it as the cool easy going cousin.

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Jerk Chicken

Grilled Jerk Chicken perfect combo of sweet, spicy, and charred business. The backbone is the allspice, along with everything else Jamaican. The heat is from the habanero.

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Smoked Strip Steak

Experience Nirvana. Smoked NY Strip Steak. It will blow your mind, put a smile on your face, and make your tummy very happy.

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3-2-1 Baby Backs

Baby back ribs, done the 3-2-1 way. Comes out good, real good, let’s make this every weekend good.

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Harissa Spiced Leg of Lamb

Sublime leg of lamb, slathered with harissa, cooked 24 hours in the sous vide, broiled for some smokey char, and finished with a bright sauce. Awesomeness.

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Chili Dog Chili

Chili Dogs need chili. Great Chili. Chili that is slow cooked until it is essentially liquid meat.

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Buttermilk Roasted Chicken

Roasted spatchcocked chicken marinade in buttermilk, is like a dream come true. All the soft fall apart chicken goodness you get from buttermilk marinated fried chicken, but without the diet destroying crust.

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Carnitas

Remember that ice cream bar that asked you, what would you doooo for a … Screw that – i’d do anything for great carnitas.

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Guinness Stew

It’s St Patricks Day!!! Hooray! But you are trying to be low carb. Booo. These things are not compatible. So you are going to have to compromise a bit.

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Scallops, Watercress, Orange

Scallops. Pure yumm. Tender, meaty, buttery, a bit sweet, and a bit salty. They are good all by themselves.

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Bacon wrapped dates

Bacon wrapped dates are a gateway drug to full on tapa addiction. This version, with blue cheese inside will turn you into a junkie in no time. Serves 12: scales well.

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Crab Stuffed Tomatoes

Small tomatoes, stuffed with crab salad. One maximally delicious bite. These are a great party snack.

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Jamon Pinxto

A bite of bliss. Jamon, sun dried tomatoes soaked in sherry, creamy goat cheese.

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Ham Croquettas

No tapas meal would be complete without croquettas!

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Lamb Meatballs

Classic meatballs with a spanish style sofrito sauce. This is a great party dish to make ahead of time and leave on the stove till it’s time to serve.

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Shrimp with Garlic

Gambas al Ajillo, a tapas classic. Eat with caution on a first date. Abandon by the fourth.

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Chicken and Bok Choy

Stir fried goodness. Classic flavors, easy to make, deliciousness maximized.

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Black Pepper Beef and Broccoli

A mashup of beef and broccoli and black pepper beef. Put down the phone, no need to call the chinese place if you have the chops to make this (and you do.

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Beer Brats

Let your inner wisconsinite shine. All hail the mighty beer brat!

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Salmon with Aleppo Pepper Sauce

In this dish, we make a sauce/marinade with aleppo pepper along with lime juice, some herbs, and oil and use it to top salmon. Delicious!

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Chicken with Corn, Tomato, and Mustard Cream Sauce

Summer time means corn, and tomatoes, and general deliciousness that begs to be maximized with minimal effort. Pair with juicy chicken and you have a winner.

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Steak Un-Taco

Someone doesn’t want carbs. You know that someone. But you want a taco. Or something with steak that has a mexican flair.

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Arroz Con Pollo

I’ve been on a bit of a rice dish kick lately. And you can’t have a rice dish kick without arroz con pollo, which might be the ultimate comfort food.

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Chicken and Chorizo Paella

Paella. Sausage, Chicken, Rice, Deep Spice. What’s not to love? Yes, you can go overboard and create a complex paella with 18 different things in it. There’s no need. Serves:4-6 Time:1.

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Steak and Guinness Pie

It was St. Patty’s day and I was craving something Irish. What’s more Irish than Guinness right?

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Chicken w/ Mushrooms and Riesling Cream Sauce

My take on coq au riesling, a great sunday main course for the family.

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Beans, Sausage, Kale Casserole

A casserole play on white bean, sausage, and kale soup. Super yummy!

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Beef and Broccoli

An American Chinese classic, beef and broccoli. It’s easy to make, deeply satisfying, and way better than that mass produced goop you’d get from delivery.

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Red Beans and Rice

Contrary to this dishes title, for me the point of making red beans and rice is the andouille sausage. Smoky, porky, awesome. The beans, the sauce, and the rice are a bonus. Throw on some hot sauce and prepare for culinary bliss.

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Ground Beef and Scarlett Runner Bean Chili

Normally, I don’t go for beans in chili. It makes for less room for the meat. But sometimes in life, you have to compromise, and sometimes, that means putting beans in your chili. That said, it doesn’t mean the chili has to suck. It definitely should not suck. This chili doesn’t.

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Pork Chops with Roasted Poblano Sofrito, Scarlett Runner Beans, and Rice

When cooked right, pork chops are awesome. When overcooked they are gnarly. This makes them perfect for sous vide, which lets you nail perfect every time.

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Lobster Thermichowder

Thermichowder – a cross between lobster thermidor and lobster chowder. Whatever you want to call it, it’s super tasty.

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Dungeness Crab Salad with Frisee and Arugula

Sweet and salty crab, dressing that creamy mustardy goodness, juicy cucumber bites, and a bit of bite from the daikon and the lettuces. Overall, this combines to be light, refreshing, and utterly delicious.

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Fritto Misto di Calamari

Calamari fritto misto style! Light airy batter, spicy tomato sauce deliciousness. Move fast, they’ll be gone in a flash!

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Potato Latkes

A pancake, made of potatoes. Fried potatoes. F r i e d. Deliciousness maximized.

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Pad See Ew

Pad See Ew is both the Thai dish I like the most and is dead easy to make. Slice up three things, boil some noodles, and fry em up with some sauce. Bang! bliss.

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Yellow Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry + IPA == Happiness

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Pulled Lamb Pita w/ Tzatziki

Free yourself from the tyranny of pulled pork! Seriously. You’ve had pulled pork 1000 times, you never had anything like this: Smokey lamb with deep and mysterious chile flavors from the rub, and salted perfect.

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Ahi Tuna Poke Bowl

Poke is all the rage these days. Bowls reign supreme. And deservedly so. Tuna + soy + sesame = bliss.

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Salmon with Horseradish and Dill

Add a little sauce to your weeknight salmon, boss. With a little heat. You could even pretend it’s winter in Stockholm.

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Tilapia with Peppers and Olives

This dish is light and easy to make, but it does come with some flavor from the peppers, olives, and the vinaigrette. You can make this to atone for the 17 night run you just went on alternating between fried chicken and steak.

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Farfalle with pancetta and corn

I dig pasta with cream sauce. This one has some late summer veggies, and a nice dose of pork product to make it interesting. This is another easy weeknight dish.

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Harrisa Chicken with Potatoes, Carrots, and Onion

Easy weeknight chicken with some flair!

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Shrimp with fregola sarda, corn, and pesto

I’ve been hearing that fregola sarda is all the rage these days. Then i saw it at my local grocery store. So i made this. Rockin’.

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Onions with Sausage and Peppers

All this time, you’ve been fooled. Sausage and Peppers is not about the sausage or the peppers. It’s about the onions. Deeply caramelized, maybe slightly charred, sweet – eye closing deliciousness.

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Pork Tenderloin w/ Mustard Sauce

An easy dinner with a nice pan sauce. Doing this sous vide makes it almost impossible to overcook the pork. It will be nice and juicy, but also a little pink.

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Pulled Pork

It’s going to be a beautiful saturday, there is excess beer in the fridge, friends are coming over. Time to plot smoking a large hunk of meat for dinner.

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Lamb Chops with Olives, Capers, and Onions

I love lamb chops, they are delicious on their own but a little something extra is nice too. This something extra is pretty intense. Think chicken piccata but with lamb and olives. Piquant from the lemon and capers, sultry from the olive, and sweet from the onion.

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Jambalaya

Mind blowing awesomeness.

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Orecchiette, sausage, and brussel sprouts

Something different from the tyranny of broccoli rabe in the traditional version of this dish.

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Chicken and Chickpea Tagine

WIP – chicken and chickpeas are a classic tagine combination. Now to get it right.

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Fish Curry

WARNING WIP. Fish Curry has a place in your repertoire , particularly when pesky pescatarians come to visit. What to eat? Problem solved.

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Detroit Style Pizza

Detroit pizza is great pizza. It deserves a higher place in the pizza pantheon. Thick crust with some crunch, cheese everywhere, and toppings galore. It’s good end to end, every bite as delicious as the next.

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Baked Beans

A classic bbq side, it’s easy, just make sure you give it plenty of time. It can take a while. That said, if you are smoking something while you make this, time is on your side.

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Brisket

Ok campers, get ready to get up at 4am to make a 7pm dinner. But what a dinner! Holy amazeballs, home made brisket is good.

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Coleslaw

Hello BBQ, meet the perfect side.

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Sloppy Joes

Am I a little kid? No, but I have two, so that means I can eat like one. Lucky me!

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Pasta with peas, asparagus, pancetta

Pasta, creamy sauce, bacony flavor bombs, sneaky healthy green stuff. This is a great week night pasta. Proof? My two year old eats it with reckless abandon and then cries more! more! more!

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Spare Ribs

FryFry’s Ribs! . Done on the Big Green Egg.

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Southwestern Flank Steak Salad #2

A variation of the other southwestern flank steak salad. It has a different dressing and adds some croutons.

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Lamb chops with Red Peppers, Onion, Feta

Time to get your Mediterranean diet going. What better way than Lamb Chops? I do this sous vide but you don’t need to.

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Salmon with Pea Puree and Tomato

A worth quick meal for a weeknight, if you are feeling like you need to eat healthy. This is scaled for 2, double as needed.

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Fried Rice

Perfect for lunch with leftovers and not much else in the fridge, fried rice is a very fungible thing. All you really need is rice and an egg.

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Butternut Squash Risotto

Sometimes, you find perfection. Serious Eat’s Pressure Cooker Butternut Squash Risotto is everything you hope it could be. Rewritten so i can cook it easily again below.

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Halftime Sliders

It’s halftime. The music sucks. You need hot food for the second half. Time to make the sliders! But, you have to be prepared and move fast.

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Midwestern Lasagna

I’m sure no self respecting Italian would eat this, nor anyone concerned with nutrition. Their loss.

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Red Chile Chicken Enchiladas

A slightly fancy version of the ‘red’ enchiladas down at your local mexican slop shop. Make these and you won’t be going back there any time soon (or until you feel lazy.

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Turkey Chili

This is the turkey variation of chili. And it has beans in it, double sin! This is halved from the original chili.

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Braised Lamb Shanks with Cannellini Beans

And now for something completely different. Well sort of, this is like a tomato/lamb version of hoppin john, with different beans and no rice. Ok maybe’s its completely different.

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Black Beans, Chorizo, and Rice

Why just have black beans, when you can put chorizo in it too?

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Roast Chicken – Cuban Style

Roast chicken, one of life’s great pleasures. Cuban food, soon to take over the world. Combine. I did this one spatchcock style, so I could use a marinade.

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Mushroom Swiss Burger

One bite and the rest of the world ceases to exist. You are one with the salty fatty mushroomy cheesy beefy awesomeness of the mushroom swiss burger.

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Fish Tacos

Welcome to so-cal living.

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Kung Pao Chicken

For whatever reason, there is no delivery Chinese where I live. So time to take matters into my own hands.

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Chicken ‘schnitzel’

Fried goodness. And it’s healthy! It is chicken after all.

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Butternut Squash Potpie

When vegetarians strike – feed them.

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Chicken and Mushroom Quesadillas

Americanized Mexican at it’s finest.

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Chicken Shawarma

Just as tasty as street meat, with less bacteria!

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Chili Lime Steak Tacos

Cheater marinade – delicious tacos. I like my tacos to be bundles of delicious meats with little distraction. You may feel differently and if you do, then add more stuff.