Salt Cod Fritters

Salt cod fritters, Spanish style. Called bunelos de bacalao in Spanish, you can make these with any salted fish.

Grilled Flat Iron Steak

This is a simple, basic flat iron steak recipe you can use as a template. Grilled, flat iron steak is a tender, tasty cut of beef, elk, bison or moose.

How to Clean a Pheasant

When people ask me how to clean a pheasant, I always ask back: What do you intend to do with…

How to Make Corn Tortillas

How to make corn tortillas at home, from either fresh dough or masa harina. Homemade tortillas are much better than store-bought, once you learn how.

Longaniza Sausages

How to make longaniza sausages, Mexican style. They're a bit like chorizo, but less vinegary.

How to Cook Nopales

Nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles, are delicious, but you need to know some tricks to cook nopales without slime.

Mexican Masa Empanadas

How to make Mexican empanadas from scratch. These are masa empanadas, corn dough, not flour. You can fill them with anything you like.

How to Make Masa Harina

Masa harina is dried tortilla dough. You can buy it, but if you have good corn, here's how to make homemade masa harina.

How to Clean Nopales

How to clean nopales, prickly pear cactus paddles. Step by step instructions, with a video, on how to remove spines from nopales.

Smoked Pork Chops

Smoked pork chops, using real, meaty, fatty, thick pork chops. Useful in all sorts of ways!