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Category Archives: Cooking
Preparing for Thanksgiving 2023
Happy Thanksgiving week 2023! I heard on NPR last night that you should buy a frozen turkey immediately (meaning this weekend, today) so it has time to defrost. So let’s get started. Thanksgiving 2023 will be a little different for … Continue reading
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Tagged Cranberry Sauce, Durkee's, stuffing, Thanksgiving, Turkey
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Affordable food porn
We don’t worry too much about food presentation here at Burnt My Fingers, as you may have noticed. But sometimes you want to gild the lily just a bit. And we got thinking about affordable food porn… ways you can … Continue reading
Reviewing McDonald’s new condiments
McDonald’s has recently introduced two condiments, Mambo sauce and Sweet and Spicy Jam. Although the advertising suggests you should try them one at a time, there is nothing to prevent you from adding 2 of each to your mobile order … Continue reading
Top 5 recipes of 2023 on Burnt My Fingers
Another year, another clips post with the most popular recipes in the past 12 months as measured by clicks. A few changes if you compare to 2022 and 2021. Recipe: Halal Guys White Sauce. Once upon a time, people would … Continue reading
Five most popular non-recipe posts in 2023 on Burnt My Fingers
Each year at this time we do a recap of our posts that have garnered the most clicks in the past 12 months. The world has convulsed with conflict and climate change yet our most popular posts, and even their … Continue reading
Perfect hardboiled eggs in the Instant Pot
We tend to tune out a lot of the fan chatter about the Instant Pot, especially when folks start talking about how to cook something in the IP that has no business there—like prime rib!—or something that would be just … Continue reading
Recipe: Chicago-Style Beef for sandwiches
Chicago-style beef for sandwiches is a big winner: rich, beefy, juicy and fall-apart tender. Drench it in jus, add some of our Chicago-style giardiniera and maybe a bit of provolone, and you’ve got just about the perfect sandwich. Ingredients: 3 … Continue reading
Mistakes in making gumbo
The other day I had a pound of just-harvested okra and decided I would make gumbo. I heated maybe ¼ c of olive oil and added the Holy Trinity of chopped onion, celery and green pepper, about 2/3 c each. … Continue reading
Recipe: Chicago-Style Giardiniera
We have some Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches in our future for which Chicago-Style Giardiniera is a key component. Compared to our standard giardiniera it’s spicier, and contains oil. I long resisted the oil but am happy with the result. It … Continue reading
Food for thought: Lebanese food blogs
A search for the best way to cook dried chickpeas led us to the Forks and Foliage Lebanese food blog. It’s a fairly new blog with just a few recipes but its author obviously has big plans judging from the … Continue reading