Semiserious Chefs

It starts, “Mom, you have to try what I made for you.” “I’m going to serve you a bunch of things. Like eight.” “Oh, that looks good. Are those cubes of beef?” I ask. “Yes. Beef. Eight kinds of beef.” And now it begins. *Que dramatic, suspenseful ,building, orchestral music, heavy with violins* …and a […]

Yesterday, I decided it was about time I added a recipe to the blog for some delicious homemade sloppy Joes. Sure, you can find sloppy Joe mix at the store, but I feel they don’t end up tasting quite as good as the kind you can make at home. Homemade sloppy Joes aren’t a dish […]

I was working on a sauce to use with some canned moose meat a little while back, (something that might work well with left over pot-roast or such) and created this really tasty sauce. Although it was great with the meat I decided to go a different way with that recipe, ending up with a […]

This recipe was inspired by a can of ‘meat’ I was given. ‘Meat?’ you say. Yes, a quart jar simply labeled ‘meat.’ Now there is an explanation for this. My mother loves to can foods; jelly, vegetables, fruit, fish… and last year they decided to can some moose. It turned out GREAT! So why label […]

I really wanted to call this lasagna ‘traditional‘, but after looking up lasagna on Wikipedia, I don’t know if I can do that. See, I’m more confused if anything now. But again, that’s pretty much par for the course for me. This particular recipe doesn’t include onions – although they could easily be added with […]

The Ingredients Anything Everything Whatever we want Andrew I’m going to jump in and say right off the bat that for this episode of Dueling Duleys, we’re not going to follow the usual rules for our game, which you can find by clicking here: The Rules Instead we will both be creating our own take […]

This dish goes great served over a hot bed of freshly cooked egg noodles, but can just as easily be served over rice, chewy French bread (that actually sounds really good right now) or even act as a standalone type of stew if you want. Personally however, I will always prefer it served over egg […]