Shane's Blog

Here's something new I want to try with y'all...Recipe Testing Tuesdays!  This is where my sweet husband, Alex is just shooting some "raw" footage of me doing what I do most days of the week...playing with food and trying to make something yummy out of what's good for you and in-season.  Please give it a look see and let me know your thoughts and I'm always open to your suggestions on how to provide you with more tools so YOU can "Just keep it real, honey!"

Here is your Chef Shane Real Food Pep-Talk for July 26th, 2010.  It is HOT!  MP3 Click here for the Podcast audio

Write me about what you buy at your local farmer's market...especially if you have questions about how to prepare what's in season!  Let me hear from you!  Here's what I got from my market today and boy, was it HOT!!!      

Congratulations to Deana and her sweet family for buying most all they eat from the Franklin Farmer’s Market every week!  That is my home market too and there just couldn’t be a better time of eating local, delicious fresh food…it’s coming out of our ears, ears of corn that is!  So corny.  O.K., I’ll stop.  Deana has started a wonderful blog called  www.pinksugarbowl.blogspot.com   to take us all along on their journey of eating all this great food from local farmers..  So, for those of you...

Corn at its peak in the summer is a real treat.  It’s sweet, crisp and can almost be eaten raw.  I just remember, as most of you do, that we would always have it on the cob.  Well that always made for some fun messy eating and a serious session with the dental floss when you were finished.  We lived in Trinidad for about a year when I was in third grade and one of my favorite snacks was “burnt corn.”  Really, there would be folks on the side of the road roasting the corn over an...