🎶 Recorded live at one of my restaurants, Flatlander’s, this is exactly what the crowd experienced: no overdubs, no retakes. Just six musicians pouring everything they had into a night none of us wanted to wake up from. @ducknor.bsky.social @monoelnana.bsky.social 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋 youtu.be/xhwAzmPGcq0

I created these in the 1990s for an art installation at one of my restaurants. The originals were rendered in graphite on cotton rag. I’ve refined them using computer graphics programs, smoothing and sharpening some while preserving the rough character of others. feltmansfollies.com/hot-off-the-...

🍞 At one time, a cook was judged by their biscuits, and rightly so. Biscuits revealed everything: the feel, the chill, the instinct for heat, and the restraint. Good biscuits meant you knew how to feed people with pride. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥩 A golden curry pie arrives like a hearthside welcome to the weary traveler, easing the day’s burdens. Warm spice, tender beef, and bright vegetables restore the spirit as laughter and good company carry on the craic. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🫗 These characters were part of a BBQ team from years ago. Smoky Treats, the cat’s name as well, is no longer, but like recipes, their ephemera lives on at feltmansfollies.com/hot-off-the-... Feltman’s Follies Studio Store: concept art and retired players inhabit the archive. Stop by soon. 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🌭 An old standby that never left the party, this bite blends ballpark comfort, bistro flair, and cocktail elegance. Bacon-wrapped dogs on garlicky Parmesan baton coins deliver crisp, savory richness in a single bite. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍪 A cast-iron collision of fudge brownie and cookie, loaded with pretzels, chips, candy, and whatever the pantry gives up. Edges char, centers melt, toppings flow. Built for mischief and waste-not creativity. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe. 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🧀 Tender gnocchi in a thick Romano cream with sautéed portobella and porcini, dry sherry for depth, and herbed-garlic breadcrumbs for crunch. A rich, layered dish that’s more cheese than sauce, and all comfort. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Dinner #Pasta Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍫 A dramatic chocolate skull filled with rich mousse and a hint of liqueur, set on a crumble of ‘earth’ with bright fruit and flowers. A playful, decadent dessert for celebrations that call for a little spectacle. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Chocolate Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🧈 A simple, striking tart of roasted macadamias set in a firm butter caramel and a tender crisp shell. Rich, fragrant, and beautifully sliceable, served best with a soft white chocolate whipped cream #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🐖 Philadelphia’s other iconic sandwich: slow‑roasted pork, rich-herbed jus, and tender greens on a warm roll. A local secret with deep flavor and history, and in many guests’ opinion prefered over the city’s famous cheesesteak. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Sandwich #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

👌 You may find this infographic helpful when gauging the doneness of a steak or burger. Cooks have used this tactile method for generations. It trains your sense of touch so you can judge doneness by feel instead of guessing. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #CookingTips #KitchenStuff 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍔 A double beef patty stacked with melted Monterey Jack, thick bacon, warm kimchi, and spicy Korean ketchup on butter grilled brioche. A deep, smoky, comforting burger that projects its legend the moment you taste it. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🦆 Rich duck confit with tart botanical sloe gin blackberries, warm bacon slaw, caramelized peanuts, and butter grilled brioche creates a sumptuous supper sandwich with real depth and balance. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe #Supper #DuckConfit Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍐 Champagne poached pears and spiced red wine poached plums served cold with pistachio mascarpone and ginger shortbread. A bright and warming dessert that moves from silk to spice to crisp in one composed plate. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥓 Thyme‑orange roasted pork belly, caramelized under high heat and served over garlic–onion aioli with bitter arugula. Finished with red‑wine onions for a bright, sweet counterpoint to the char and spice. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #FusionCooking Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🐓 Jasmine‑tea–steamed chicken, briefly roasted under a fragrant chili‑orange coat, served with glossy, wok‑tossed chow mein and crisp wonton. A quiet fusion built on aroma, balance, and international table ease. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #AsianStyle Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍌 A crisp pâte sucrée shell filled with caramelized maduro custard, layered with soft whipped cream and finished with roasted peanuts. A richer, deeper, more indulgent take on the flavors of classic banana pudding. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🇹🇷 A three‑section pide filled with smoky baba ganoush, a spicy cheese spread, and cool labneh topped with tomatoes and peppers. A colorful bake that highlights the depth and variety of this Turkish classic. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🎶 Where does music reside in our DNA? How can one person live without it while another cannot survive? Today’s selection lives in its off-beat syncopation, not the downbeat. Ragtime. Played with deadpan humor, as always. @ducknor.bsky.social @monoelnana.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=WROV...

🫐 Soft, spiced rolls that feel like they came from a tavern kitchen where the berries simmer all afternoon. Warm crumble gives them the soul of a blueberry pie, familiar and generous. Many worlds brought to the table. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🐓 What if a Hungarian grandmother opened a Midwestern tavern and decided the fried chicken should taste like home. Paprika, thyme, sage and a clean slaw build a sandwich that feels hearty, simple and ready for a pint. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍰 Warm date cakes glazed in ginger syrup, with candied ginger and cacao nibs. A toffee‑coffee butter dip adds shine, depth, and a slow caramel warmth that turns a simple bundt into a small, luxurious ritual. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍤 Crisp shrimp in a citrus‑forward glaze with Szechuan warmth that builds as you eat. Sweet, heat, and brightness in balance, with mizuna, radish, and sesame to cleanse the palate and keep each bite lively. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍲 Agedashi tofu served crisp and golden in a warm dashi broth. The exterior stays light and delicate while the center stays soft. Green onions and bonito flakes add lift and aroma as the broth gathers around each piece. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🌶️ Spicy edamame sautéed in garlic and house-made chili oil. Smoky, messy, and impossible to stop eating. The heat comes from the oil you craft, and the crispy chili threads add a final burst of flavor with every bite. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍹🎭 A true Hurricane needs no revision. Light and dark rum, passion fruit, citrus, and a 151 float. A perfected New Orleans classic, mixed as written and honored as doctrine on this Fat Tuesday. Respect scripture. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Cocktail #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥯 A smoked salmon Benedict built on a toasted sesame bagel with Boursin, quail egg, and a glossy Hollandaise. Bright onions, capers, and dill on top. A rich, elegant bite for a Mardi Gras morning. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #MardiGras #FatTuesday Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍫 Everyone thinks they’ve seen this before until the first bite. That’s when the familiar flips. They realize it isn’t the version they remember but the one they always wished it had been. Chocolate French toast #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍕 Crisp shoestring fries loaded with bubbling cheese, pepperoni strips, and a bold pizza sauce. A loud, messy, crowd‑pleasing starter built for that first molten pull that makes everyone grab their phones. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Pizza #Appetizer Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🇺🇸 I have been working on other projects along with the archive of recipes. As many of you know, I have featured some old recordings in my Friday Music Picks the past two weeks. Here is one more from that project. I am not ready to announce anything just yet. 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋 youtube.com/shorts/nOHby...

🌞 Taking a day to savor this warm spell in the heart of February. Wishing everyone a beautiful day. Cheers. 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍰 A dense butter‑crumb limoncello cake pressed overnight to reflect and absorb what’s coming, soaked with citrus and ginger spirits, then sent out with a mascarpone flourish, like it knows exactly how good it is #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🐓 A simple scallopini limone, a quiet table for two, and the sense that the evening has plans of its own once the plates are cleared, the kind you both already understand without saying a word. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Dinner #ItalianFood Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🎶 Happy Friday! A march to March and darn the groundhog's prediction. Give My Regards To another from my archive, here to spur you on and make you smile. 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋 @ducknor.bsky.social @janenodough.bsky.social @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social www.youtube.com/shorts/Tt4hK...

🦞 Sweet, lemon‑steamed lobster piled into a grilled brioche roll, dressed with warm butter mayo and a dusting of paprika, tender enough to melt and rich enough to feel like vacation in every bite. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe #Dinner #Lobster Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥘 Saffron‑bright rice cradles peppers, artichokes, mushrooms, peas, and asparagus in a sunlit pan, finished with herbs, microgreens, lemon, and a whisper of chardonnay for a final lift. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Dinner #Vegetarian #Paella Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍏 Old‑school fruit slices from the corner bakeries, apple or cherry, whatever was in the case. Every neighborhood had its favorite alongside the butcher, green grocer, druggist, and being Chicago, tavern. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🔥 Creole meatballs built from short rib and boudin, simmered in tomato heat and finished with bacon and melting cream cheese, a Mardi Gras bite with the depth, spice, and joy of the season. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Dinner #CreoleCooking #MardiGras Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍹 A Caribbean rum and saffron cake that fits right into Carnival, alive with island color and warmth, the kind you would find in Jamaica or Rio where celebration and sweetness share the same rhythm. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe #Dinner Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🦑 Crisp salt and pepper squid tossed with peppers and onions, bold enough for carnival and bright enough to keep the party going. Mardi Gras bite that crackles with heat, color, and that Nawlins je ne sais quoi. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #MardiGras Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🦀 A Mardi Gras feast in a bun: crisp soft‑shell crabs dipped in Cajun butter, cooling slaw, and brioche soaking up every bold, joyful flavor. Carnival food, crafted to celebrate, savor, and let the good times roll. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥟 Crisp little bombas filled with warm Ibérico richness, crackling as they meet the plate, ready to be dipped into a slow‑burn Calabrian cream that turns each bite into a small, irresistible seduction. Come and be tempted. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🧀 A bowl of molten Catalan cheese, golden and sighing, inviting you to linger as its warmth softens the night and turns simple bread into a quiet, shared romance. Beneath the surface, hidden treasures wait to be found. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍔 This towering quinoa stack brings comfort and craft together, crisp edges yielding to tender warmth, with a sweet potato hash that completes the story. Gluten free and made to please. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Sandwich #Recipe #GlutenFree #Burger Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🌊 A bright, briny tangle that tastes like a shoreline morning, cool seaweed lifted by citrus, a little crunch, a little sweetness, and the quiet pop of roe that reminds you the ocean is abundant and mysterious. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #SeaweedSalad Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🍪 Rolled butter cookies brushed with a light apricot glaze and scattered with simple candies. Nothing fancy, just the clear flavor of an old‑world bake. Crisp, golden, and meant to be enjoyed any time of year. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Baking #Bakesky #Recipe Click for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥩 Bright, brothy grillades simmered without dredge, served tender with buttery hashed red potatoes that soak up every drop. Clean, savory, and deeply comforting; a Southern classic with a lighter sauce and texture. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #Dinner Click here for recipe 🍽️👨‍🍳🍜🐝🦋

🍸 A soft, floral flip washed with just the suggestion of cinnamon. Vodka, Grand Marnier, rose, and silk‑smooth foam meet in a chilled coupe, finished with dried petals for a quiet garden moment in a glass. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Cocktails #Recipe Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋

🥗 Two classics, side by side: a crisp Caesar with white anchovy bite and a cool butter‑lettuce wedge with Roquefort and pickled onions. A starter duo for diners who want both traditions on one plate. #TheOutpost #Cooking #Cooksky #Foodsky #Recipe #WedgeSalad #CesarSalad Click here for recipe 🍽️🍜👨‍🍳🐝🦋