Did you just say I could Go Grapefruit Myself?! WTF dude.

Brave New Meal: Cooking 124 recipes in a 365 days. 2 down, 122 to go. Grapefruits get a bad rap, and I just don’t see why. The slightly rotund cousin of the perfectly sized orange, is it any wonder that it’s a bit bitter? The orange gets all the attention, while grapefruit almost always gets…

Ready to Take a Leak? (with a parsnip?)

Okay here we go. New cookbook BRAVE NEW MEAL is out!! I’m going to cook and blog the whole thing in a year. (I hope I make it, I’ve got other shit to do too.) 124 recipes in 365 days.That’s about a recipe every 3 days. I will pretend that it’s the 1st December to…

Piece of Shit Blender Pie

Piece of Shit Blender Pie (aka Fresh Corn Butter Pie) I am trying not to panic. Bad Manners (previous known as Thug Kitchen)’s new cookbook is coming out and I preordered that shit ages ago. I’m so excited that I could scream a muffled scream into my hand so that I don’t freak out the…

A Mushroom a Day Keeps Your Hostile Prostate at Bay

Stuffed Mushrooms from the Party Grub book. (page 55) Want less prostate cancer in your life?! ME TOO! Dr. Michael Greger said white button mushrooms could help with prostate cancer. So I though HELL NO, I DON’T WANT PROSTATE CANCER! Fuck that shit. Feeling a strong sense of urgency, because I feared that prostate cancer…

Jasmine Rice Pudding: Eat Flowers! Be weird!

When you wake up in the morning do you let your day decide what sort of mood you’re going to be in? Or do you decide what sort of day YOU want to have? Like, before you get up, you know pre-coffee, pre-anything…do you lay there thinking Fuck My Life, I’ve gotta drag myself out…

Vegetable Pot pie…without the pot

I’ve never had pot pie, so I wanted to know what the fucking frig the fuss was all about. Turns out there’s not even pot in it. (Sort of disappointing, but probably for the best, because otherwise how can I feed this to my kid?! I’d have to cook a whole other meal just for…

We fought the slaw and the slaw won.

So anyone who’s a parent will know that multitasking is essential to the job. You cannot parent without having at least 5 things going at once. This is the road to stressville for sure – and one stop further along that bumpy train ride lays burnout town, but somehow we all get on that goddamned…

Secret Cake

Pear and Poppy Seed Pound Cake Party Grub Book page 183 Okay, so this was a hard one.Not to make, hell no, it was easy-peasy-lemon-squeezey.It was hard to not eat. The Bad Mannered Chefs…whom you can call Thug Kitchen, the Thugs, el Thugerinos, or even Thug Kitchenistas if you’re not into the whole brevity thing….had…

Hitting the Pizza Jack Pot

Hello my little Thugs and Thugettes…Or chefs with Bad Manners.* It’s been a while. I decided to crank my oven and make the most creative pizza my kitchen could muster…So I grabbed my Thug Kitchen cookbook (the Party one) to hunt for recipes. It did not disappoint, I found recipes for not one but THREE…

Eat Like You Give a Fuck: Coconut Pancakes with Mango Coulis

  Life is too short to not fill with joy. Joy and pancakes. And delicious mango coulis. We can’t forget that shit, either! My kid had a friend over for a sleepover. They woke up at 5am the morning after (or still the same night depending on how you look at the situation) and were…