The Ranting Cook

Otherwise known as heaven on your tastebuds! Makes 4 sandwiches. Ingredients: * 12 slices smoky bacon * 1 pound shaved or very thinly sliced boneless rib eye (from your butcher) * 2 teaspoons Kosher salt plus about 1/2 teaspoon * 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse black pepper * 1 teaspoon ground cumin * 1 teaspoon pimentón (smoked sweet paprika) * 1 teaspoon each granulated garlic and granulated onion * Olive oil, vegetable or canola oil, for drizzling * Chipotle Tabasco or other hot sa

For Cinco de Mayo I usually make a batch of one of my favourite Mexican dishes, guacamole, but unfortunately I was too busy this year FLEEING FOR MY EFFING LIFE! Thanks to that stupid fire and being evacuated on May 3rd, I missed my yearly moment of Mexican heaven. No worries though, since my return I have made it a mission to drink margaritas and eat guacamole every chance I get At its base guacamole is mashed avocados and from there you can start adding more ingredients lik

I already have a few hot melted cheese dips planned for my next party but I always want to include something a little on the healthier side and guacamole is the perfect party food! My basic guacamole is pretty darn irresistible but I cannot help but tinker with it by adding different things with an example being the blue cheese guacamole that I made not too long ago. THAT sounds way better than the real thing trust me. Blue cheese guac meet garbage can… This time however I w

The idea of a guacamole grilled cheese sandwich has been knocking on my subconscious for a while now and since I was making the bacon guacamole this weekend I figured there was no better time than now. The premise behind this grilled bit of culinary heaven is quite simple and at first it started out with just adding guacamole to a grilled cheese but once I created the bacon/guac masterpiece I could not resist adding a few slices of bacon to the sandwich. I also had some lefto