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.

Cure COVID with cabbage?

The other day I needed something healthy and crunchy to go with the last of my Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork. So I pulled a half head of cabbage out of the refrigerator, shredded it on the coarsest side of … Continue reading

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Recipe: Mom’s Meatloaf

Maybe we should call this Many Moms Meatloaf because it combines a number of best practices from around the internet. Feel free to make your own adaptations. Carrots are non-traditional and you can leave them out if you don’t enjoy … Continue reading

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Recipe: MaryLou Whitney Cheese Wafers

MaryLou Whitney Cheese Wafers are the creation of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, the gracious woman who was the queen of social life in Saratoga Springs until her passing in 2019 at the age of 93. This recipe was found in … Continue reading

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Recipe: Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork

This is the comforting, salty-sweet dish everybody loves, adapted to make Instant Pot Thai Roast Pork. (If you don’t have an Instant Pot you can slow-cook the pork in a crockpot or dutch oven.) It’s actually a bit mild for … Continue reading

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Quarantining with the Colonel

Fried chicken is good food for times of self-isolation. It’s crunchy, greasy, bad for you and just as tasty (we think) cold as it is hot. That’s why a lot of folks are quarantining with the Colonel with a takeout … Continue reading

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Highland Park Cafeteria is closed for good

We dreaded going on their website, because we feared we would find that Highland Park Cafeteria is closed for good. Their clientele, after all, is very close to the profile of nursing home residents who have been hard hit by … Continue reading

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My first porchetta

A whole pork belly had been languishing in our downstairs freezer for way too long. With no big gatherings on the horizon, it was time to make my first porchetta. And it proved surprisingly easy and successful. Porchetta is a … Continue reading

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Recipe: Sourdough Banana Bread

This isn’t banana bread with leftover starter added for flavor interest. It’s sourdough banana bread because sourdough is the only leavening agent and there is no aded sugar, either. It came out pretty good. It’s tart and tangy but with … Continue reading

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Let’s have a pupusa party!

Looking for something fun to do with your COVID co-confinees? Have a pupusa party! Making a serviceable pupusa turns out to be quite a challenge. But, though your early attempts will be comically inept, you’ll get better with practice and … Continue reading

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Recipe: Hawaiian Stromboli

Hawaiian Stromboli came about because we have some Hawaiian pizza haters among our confinement group, and wanted to prove them wrong. Stromboli is simply a pizza with a different (and arguably better*) form factor, but it allowed us to slip … Continue reading

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