America’s Best Margarita Bars & Piñata sugar cookies

Cinco de Mayo is on Saturday and I was looking around for some good margarita recipes and came across Food & Wine’s list for Best Margarita Bars. It’s no surprise that Big Star made the list. You should head over there if you don’t mind the wait. Check out the entire list – America’s Best Margarita Bars | Food & Wine.

If you are feeling particularly crafty this year, you should definitely make some piñata sugar cookies.

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In fact, I think these would go quite nicely with a margarita. The recipe and a how-to video for the cookies can be found, here.

¡Buen provecho y salud!

America’s Best Margarita Bars | Food & Wine.

25 Ways to Use Sriracha

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Anyone who likes some heat has probably tried Sriracha. If you haven’t here is your chance with 25, yep 25 different ways you can incorporate some spice in your life. For those of you who already have a good relationship with Sriracha here are some ideas for you. What is your favorite thing to put Sriracha on? I’m a fan of using it in soups.

Some of the easiest ways: Sriracha Ketchup, Sriracha Deviled Eggs, and Sriracha Marinade. Recipe for the marinade can be found, here.

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Don’t forget the seafood.

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Here is the link to all 25:

25 Ways to Use Sriracha: bonappetit.com.

Eye What You Eat

Via Erik Shirai eyewhatyoueat.com

These are some amazing videos from Erik Shirai, a cameraman on No Reservations. Erik has worked for a number of other well-known channels and has his own production company called Cebu Osani Films. The films follow creation of three dishes: Potage, Soba and Capri. It’s a beautiful way to tell the story of a recipe.

Eye What You Eat.

A Night in East Germany

Via Wikipedia

Ingredients

1 bottle of Radeberger Pilsner (found at a European specialty store like, Genes, any pilsner can be substituted)

1/4 cup Bautzner mittelscharger Senf Medium Hot Mustard (found at a European specialty store like, Genes, any type of mustard can be substituted)

1/2 onion sliced

2 pork loin chops, cut 1-1/4 inches thick

salt & pepper to season

1 DVD of The Tunnel  -  Roland Suso Richter directed film loosely based on true events in Berlin following the closing of the East German border in August 1961.

1 East German boyfriend, for recipe contribution and history lesson (optional, any type of companion can be substituted)

Preparation

 Salt and pepper the chops to desired taste. In a shallow baking dish large enough to hold the pork chops in one layer combine the beer, mustard rubbed pork chops and the onions, turning the chops to coat them thoroughly. Let the chops marinate, covered for at least 30 minutes. The longer the marinade the tastier the chops will turn out.

Grill the pork chops on an oiled rack. While the chops are cooking grab your side dishes and drinks. Decide who gets to change the TV setting to video and queue up the movie. Have some extra Bautz’ner on hand, sit back and enjoy a taste of East Germany.