I love Sriracha. I love playing with it because it does really interesting things when it’s cooked. It’s complex and simple at the same time. Unlike a lot of hot sauces, it doesn’t just taste like vinegar and heat – there’s sweetness, smoke and a great chili flavor underneath the (considerable) heat. When you cook […]
Author: Kevin Lawver
BBQ That Butt With What You’ve Already Got
When I moved to Savannah, I had only ever been a consumer of fine smoked meats (you know, BBQ). I didn’t know the difference between BBQ and “grilling”. I was a poor unfortunate Yankee who didn’t know what he was missing. Thanks to my own personal BBQ Yoda (the one and only Murray Wilson), I […]
On Manly Men
I’m tired of what scared man-children are doing to my industry, to social media, to my country and to women. It’s self-defeating. It’s wrong. It’s violent and it’s cowardly. SO… Men. Stop being cowards. Stop treating people like crap. Stop threatening them. Stop lashing out like toddlers having tantrums because you’re afraid for no reason. […]
Kevin’s Year in Music: 2015
It’s been a great year for actual music, but a sad one for me personally. Why? Rdio died. I loved Rdio for years – even when I was working at a music startup building a competing service, I still loved Rdio. And now it’s gone. I tried Google Music, and had to give up on […]
Chocolate Orange Chess Pie
It’s my first recipe! Hooray! I made my first chess pie, from Callie Spears’ great recipe on Munchies, over Thanksgiving and loved it. It was super easy to make and delicious – my favorite combination! For Christmas, I decided I needed to do something different with it and thought of the chocolate oranges I got […]
Learn the Secrets of BBQ from a Champ
I’m a big fan of Wiley’s BBQ on Whitemarsh Island, and attended his BBQ class in February and learned a lot. It’s a great way to get over the fear of smoking meat, and learn a lot of tricks without having to figure them out for yourself. It’s also where I figured out the recipe […]
Cook, Eat, Write… Day One
This is all Tom Kohler’s fault. At a friend’s Christmas party, we were talking about food and he insisted that I start a food blog to hold all my thoughts, theories, recipes and discoveries about food in Savannah and the Low Country. And here we are. It’s the day after Christmas and I’ve registered the […]
Importing Rdio Playlists (and Your Collection) Into Google Music
My beloved Rdio is dying, and soon. They ran out of money, sold all their assets in a fire sale and have given their users about a week to find a new music home. I tried Apple Music, but quickly ran into limitations (song limit, my patience with their awful UI, horrible apps for importing […]
Dealing With Your Kid’s Email: A Nerd’s Approach
My kids both have Google Ed accounts for their school work, which comes with an email address. Some of the parents in the school’s Facebook group were asking how to set up the school email account on their phones, which feels like overkill to me. I don’t log in to my kid’s email – I […]
Accidental Greatness: Sriracha Chicken Quesadillas
I have accidentally created the greatest food ever: the Sriracha Chicken Quesadilla: You need to: Preheat the oven to 350 Slice two onions into quarter inch slices Slice two bell peppers (or mini bells) into quarter inch slices Four boneless chicken breasts Assemble: lay the onions out on a roasting pan or cookie sheet so […]