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If the mother of all invention is necessity, then meatballs are her offspring! The reality is that meatballs are a smart way to use up tough cheap cuts of meat along with any stale bread. By adding ingredients, meatballs are a great way to stretch a meal and feed a hungry family quickly. We know […]

The word “roast” (used in its cooking form) originally meant “to cook by dry heat,” from the Old French word rostir “to roast, burn”. The word then began an international language journey from Modern French: rôtir, to Old High German: rosten, to Middle Dutch: roosten, then settling as the English roast as we know it.

When it comes to chicken, many people have debated (hopefully within in their own minds) whether chicken taste better when it has the bone-in or when it is boneless. The general consensus (4/5 doctors agree) is that although boneless chicken breasts are convenient and cook faster than bone-in chicken, they are generally more expensive and

When it comes to beef ribs there are essentially two major types: back ribs and short ribs. For being called beef ribs, they are very different from each other but both can be tender, full of flavour, and mouth-watering when cooked properly. They also taste fantastic with our ZEG Sauces drizzled all over them! Here’s

Many people don’t know that pork is high in protein and rich in many vitamins and minerals. Lean pork can be an excellent addition to a healthy diet. For this reason, eating pork may be beneficial for bodybuilders, recovering athletes, people post-surgery, or others who need to build up or repair muscles. Pork is an

Chicken wings are made up of 3 parts: the drumette, the double boned “flat”, and the wing tip. When putting chicken wings onto a skewer and making kebabs, there are essentially 3 styles you can use. Depending on your level of skewing sophistication and ability / want / need to butcher your own full chicken

As I was digging through the latest local sales, making mad calculations on prices, and thinking about what to write today, I realized once again how little I know about the food we eat. And it’s no wonder, not only have most of us been removed from the process of making / getting our own

As many of you will remember from our past blog (Ribology 101), there are really only 2 types of ribs (okay 3 if you include rib tips). The ribs you typically find in grocery stores that have the most bang for your buck are spareribs (aka side ribs) and are probably the most popular type

The breakfast burrito (a.k.a. the breakfast wrap) is composed of breakfast items wrapped inside a flour tortilla. This style was invented and popularized in several American regions with most of the credit going to New Mexico cuisine and then expanding into Southwestern and Tex-Mex cuisine. Southwestern-style breakfast burritos may include any combination of: scrambled eggs,

A chicken lollipop is an hors d’oeuvre popular in Indian-Chinese cuisine. The chicken lollipop is a type of chicken preparation where meat from a chicken drum / drumstick segment is pushed all the way through one end of the bone to form a spherical shape resembling a lollipop. From there it can be breaded, marinated,