September is the anniversary of this blog, which means it’s time once again to peek at our stats and report the most popular posts of the past year. Let’s start with the five most popular non-recipe posts of 2019:
- The Halal Guys white sauce mystery… SOLVED! We predicted this would happen a year ago, and sure enough there’s been a daily drumbeat that finally totaled 13,403 views, far more than any other post on the blog. It’s worth noting that less than half of readers clicked through to read the actual recipe that solved the mystery… support for a theory that many people prefer arguing about food to actually eating it.
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The sauce that made Mr. Durkee famous. So much love for a product we eat (in my house anyway) only once a year. This is one of the oldest posts on the blog, and we recently cleaned up a number of broken links which made for a rise in Google rankings. Did Mrs. Lincoln actually invent Durkee’s while in the White House? Was it once made by a paint company? Read the post to find out!
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Hacking the Salt & Char Ribeye Cap Steak. In which we reproduce the signature dish of the very upscale Saratoga Springs steak house for preparation in your own home. David Burke, the new Executive Chef at Salt & Char, now makes the rib cap with Wagyu beef and charges $78 for a nine-oz portion. For the same amount of money you could buy a whole prime rib roast, cut off the cap, and essentially have a free entrée to serve for your holiday meal.
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What’s the best flour for baking bread? A perennial favorite because it answers a question any beginning baker has (or should have) and provokes discussion among more experienced bakers. Hint: it’s not the sacks of King Arthur Sir Galahad brand you see stacked up at your favorite bakery… or maybe it is.
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The cure for watery steak. Who knew this was such a problem? If you suffer from watery steak, here are two possible causes and two easy ways to fix it. Once you finish reading the post, check the “related” at the bottom of the page for other articles of interest on preparing red-meat magnificence. Seems like we hate to pay for steak, but we love writing about it!
Coming soon: the 5 most popular recipe posts of 2019.
