It doesn’t get much better than this. I raised two pigs this year, both of them finished on heirloom apples and Asian pears. Mark practiced his class on the first pig, which was the main course of my wife’s birthday party. Two weeks later, I hosted a Pig Butchery class with Mark “The Butcher” Disharoon. [...]

Pig Butchery Class and Pork Taco Lunch Cost $75 9 AM to 1 PM Williams, Oregon Featuring the Butchery of Mark Disharoon Pork Taco Lunch by Scott Wilson Mark will discuss the structure of a side of freshly butchered pork and demonstrate how to efficiently break it down into primal and subprimal cuts. He will [...]

This summer has been great for tacos. Some of our favorites were cooked in the Caja China

My friend Dave called me up about 10 days ago and told me he just had a really nice gardening shed built and before filling it with tools and stuff he wanted to have a taco party in it. Would I be interested? I told him, “Of course,” and we decided on a menu for [...]

OK, so the Spicy Pickles recipe I did this weekend turned out great. They’re a mash-up of the Pickled Cauliflower recipe by Staffan Terje of Perbacco in San Francisco and the Pickled Jalapeños and Carrots recipe from my book Tacos: Authentic, Festive & Flavorful. I also added some jicama to the recipe. Every taco truck and taqueria [...]

Yesterday, we had the good fortune of participating in a beef brisket taco party. Our friend Dave secured a 14 pound brisket from the local butcher and Liz proceeded to braise a part of it all morning until it’s unctuous tenderness flowed forth. Stupendous spring weather graced the fête while we drank freely from our keg [...]

I just got through with a fun interview with Sandy Gluck of Everyday Food on Martha Stewart Living. I sure hope it was enjoyable and interesting for all the Sirius and XM listeners. For those of you coming here from Sirius and XM looking for recipes, I’m getting to it. This is definitely putting the [...]

One of my New Year resolutions is to learn Esperanto; thus, the title above, which means Happy New Year Tacos. Another resolution is charting the path for the sequel to my cookbook Tacos: Authentic, Festive & Flavorful. In college, I majored in Anthropology, and racked up enough credits for a minor, before switching to Spanish. [...]

Do you think Tacotoberfest sounds better, or Tactoberfest? To me the second one is confusing, because it might be pronounced Tack-toberfest, and what the hell is that anyway. A Mex-German taco concept would be great. That recent birthday party (previous post) netted a few more photos, one of which features a German potato salad (conjured [...]

So, it was Liz’ birthday last Sunday. She’s the webmaster for Taco Matrix. We had tacos, delicious tacos of autumn enjoyed at a lovely garden party with a handful of friends. We had muddled blackberry margaritas, plenty of beer, black bean chile, buffalo brisket, achiote-stewed chicken thighs, onions, cilantro, red sauce, guacamole and crema. Oh, [...]