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.

Your first Thanksgiving turkey

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Local food blogger Deanna Fox commented on the radio that a lot of folks are going to be cooking their Thanksgiving meal at home for the first time, due to precautions that keep them from traveling to usual family meals. … Continue reading →

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Results of our Thanksgiving Dinner Candy Corn taste test

Posted on November 17, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

You have doubtless been on pins and needles wondering about the results of our Brach’s Thanksgiving Candy Corn taste test. To recap, a few weeks ago we invited readers to send in a stamped self-addressed envelope and receive the six … Continue reading →

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Goodbye Old Thermy, Hello Big Blue

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Like you, we’ve used the pandemic as an excuse to do some projects around the home. Our biggest investment was a new 48-inch BlueStar range, which arrived this week. We are loving it so far though it is a powerful … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Italian Deli-Style Hoagie Rolls

Posted on November 10, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

These Italian deli-style hoagie rolls started with a recipe on the highly enjoyable Wood Fired Kitchen blog. We made extensive changes to the technique, but kept a couple of secret ingredients which the author says came from Conshohocken Bakery in … Continue reading →

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A visit to Seasoned Restaurant at SUNY Adirondack

Posted on November 5, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

The excellent Casola Room at Schenectady County Community College is doing takeout only during COVID, so we tried a new place with a similar program: Seasoned Restaurant at SUNY Adirondack in Glens Falls, NY. We were drawn by Facebook photos … Continue reading →

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Make your own pumpkin pie spice

Posted on November 3, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Pumpkin pie spice is the key flavoring for pumpkin pie and other autumnal delicacies, since pumpkin doesn’t have much taste on its own. (Which is why it’s interesting that people panicked about not being able to find canned pumpkin during … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Polpette (Big Italian Meatballs)

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

Polpette are the big nicely-spiced meatballs found in Italian-American pasta dishes (they are apparently not found in Italy itself, where the meatballs are much smaller) and in meatball subs. When researching this polpette recipe we came across the wonderful Nonna’s … Continue reading →

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Why top sirloin is our favorite cut of beef

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

What is our favorite cut of beef for steaks? You probably thought we were going to say New York strip or rib steak, but in fact we’re voting for top sirloin! Here’s why. Top sirloin combines value and versatility with … Continue reading →

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Your FREE Thanksgiving Candy Corn is right here!

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

In the depths of the pandemic, somebody at the Brach’s Candy Company had an interesting idea: make a candy corn assortment that included all the flavors of Thanksgiving, right down to the stuffing and green beans. Soon after, a higher-up … Continue reading →

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We’re making the Election Cake early this year

Posted on October 20, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

It’s two weeks till Election Day as this post appears, and for many of us that will be a very stressful 14 days. Stressful ties call for stress baking, of course, so let’s get started making Election Cake. We first … Continue reading →

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