Category Archives: Eating

Here we celebrate the best kind of food enjoyment: eating somebody else’s cooking, whether it be in a fine dining establishment or a hole in the wall.

Recipe: Hotel Room Salt Salmon

Hotel Room Salt Salmon (Shiozaki in Japanese) is an easy, elegant and potentially fatal entrée you can prepare anywhere you have access to a mini-fridge, packets of salt and sugar, and a microwave. Why fatal? Because you do need to … Continue reading

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Purefoods Filipino Corned Beef recipes

We found ourselves in possession of a large quantity of Purefoods Corned Beef with Juices. (Not an affiliate link; Amazon doesn’t carry it but Walmart does.) We were prompted to try this Filipino corned beef by this article by Kitchn … Continue reading

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Uncle Son’s Blue Ribbon Watermelon Pickles

We recently came across a 30 year old packet of recipes from my mother in Dallas, and among them was Uncle Son’s Watermelon Pickles. This recipe was a perennial blue ribbon winner at the State Fair of Texas so finding … Continue reading

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Recipe: Twice-Pickled Ramps or Onions

We are a big fan of the Sweet Onion Pickles from local brand Pucker’s Gourmet. They come in a vinegar and sugar brine but the proprietor confirmed they are also lacto-fermented. So we tried our own twice-picked ramps expecting the … Continue reading

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Recipe: Steamed Hams

Unlike Principal Skinner’s deception on the legendary Simpsons episode*, our steamed hams actually are steamed, not grilled. We were inspired to create them when a friend posted a picture of the White Castle Vending Machine at Logan Airport. We had … Continue reading

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Ramps season is here!

Ramps season has arrived in upstate New York, and we’re fortunate to have a generous supply from our friends at Saratoga Wild Roots. Some will go into the ground in hopes of a future harvest, and then we’lll do a … Continue reading

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Caity Weaver’s search for the best free restaurant bread in America.

Caity Weaver a staff writer for the Atlantic, shares the background for this month’s cover story: “for years, I have been consumed by the certainty that, somewhere in America, a restaurant is giving away the country’s best free restaurant bread; … Continue reading

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Recipe: Salata Falahiyeh (Palestinian or Farmers Salad)

I ran across a recipe for Salata Falahiyeh (Palestinian or Farmers Salad) on Serious Eats and though wait a minute, this looks like our Tabbouleh but with cucumbers substituting for the bulgur. Celiacs rejoice! Unlike Tabbouleh, this does not get … Continue reading

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Cooking with tendon

I am a huge fan of beef tendon, as I’ve mentioned in the past. So when I ran across this Facebook post from a Hong Kong chef reminiscing about his impoverished early days living on the stuff, I knew it … Continue reading

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Recipe: Banana Upside-Down Bread

Banana Upside-Down Bread was inspired by a NYT Cooking recipe which describes the upside-down technique but is otherwise too fussy for the lazy cook. So we adapted it to own simpler version. We tinkered with bourbon and raisins after reading … Continue reading

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