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It’s that most wonderful time of year — when schools empty, the pools open, and crabs get soft. Actually, that whole sentence is kind of creepy. What I’m trying to say is, soft-shell crabs are delicious and only available for a few months (if that) each year. If you find them, eat them. (I found [...]

There are few things I love more than the smell of Kyle’s beard after he’s been cooking over fire, but this chicken he grilled yesterday is a close second. Once again, my ugly iPhone photography does not do good food justice, but the thighs and wings he grilled/smoked last night were so perfectly crispy and [...]

This fantastic spring weather makes me want to grill meat and drink beer — two things I’m trying to somewhat curb. But at the end of a long week, resolve extinguished, I eschew this feeble sham of self improvement and become the beer-chugging, meat-munching stereotype I feign to loathe. I’ll hate myself tomorrow, but I’m [...]

I’m no meteorologist (yet), so I have to assume that this abnormally mild winter is a sign that the end times are nigh. Whatevs, I say. It’s all grilling weather to me. Tonight I took advantage of the mild temps that are helping to usher in hell on earth and grilled up some curry-coated lamb [...]

It was a beautiful day in Kansas City. So beautiful that I repeated “It’s so freakin’ beautiful!” all day. It was so beautiful that I think I even substituted a real expletive for freakin’ a few times. And a beautiful day at the Fopkins household can only mean one thing: Kyle fires up the grill [...]