Just in time for Mother's Day, Chef Tom shares one of his all-time favorite comfort food meals, his Mom's Chicken & Noodles featuring hand-rolled homemade egg noodles and smoke roasted spatchcock chicken cooked on the Yoder Smokers YS640s Pellet Grill.
Chef Tom prepares smoky braised pork chile verde and potatoes cooked on the Kamado Joe Classic III Ceramic Charcoal Grill, then stuffed into tortillas with cheeses and smothered in more cheese and fire roasted salsa verde.
Chicken Tinga is a delicious and popular Mexican dish comprised of shredded chicken in a tomato and chipotle sauce. This week Chef Tom shares his recipe for the Pheasant Tinga Quesataco, featuring pheasant meat braised in Tinga sauce, stuffed into tortillas with cheese and finished on the griddle in the Napoleon Prestige Gas Grill.
Looking for some cold weather comfort food? Chef Tom's got you covered with his Smoked Pork Ragu. Boston Butt pork shoulder smoked on the Yoder Smokers YS640s Pellet Grill, then braised in a rich San Marzano tomato sauce and served on a bed of pappardelle pasta!
Chef Tom fires up the Kamado Joe Classic III Ceramic Charcoal Grill for these incredibly juicy Beer Braised Beef Ribs. They are first braised in a beer based braising liquid inside a cast iron Dutch oven, then finished with a high heat sear, directly over lump charcoal.
Chef Tom brings you a Midwest spin on this Italian classic, braising segments of oxtail in a rich flavor base of tomatoes, veggies, herbs and wine in a cast iron dutch oven on the grill. Oxtail Osso Buco served on a bed of creamy polenta is the winter warmer you’ve been waiting for!
Easter is right around the corner, and lamb is one of our favorite Easter meals. Check out Chef Tom’s twist on Braised Lamb Shanks, featuring local grass-fed lamb braised on the Yoder Smokers Pellet Grill in a sauce of chipotles, Pinot Noir wine and San Marzano tomatoes and topped off with a lime gremolata.
Barbacoa is a meat that many of us here in the U.S. have come to know as shredded beef. Depending on the geographic location it could refer to whole heads of cows (or cheeks), even sheep or goat meat, often cooked over an open fire, but more traditionally wrapped in leaves and cooked in a pit, dug in the ground. The interpretation is loose, today. Often barbacoa is cooked over an open fire, braised or even steamed. Whatever the cooking method or meat, one thing you want to look for is a cut of meat with a high fat content, which makes beef short ribs perfect for this Beef Short Rib Barbacoa.
By
Tom Jackson
