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Category Archives: Eating
Comfort Classics: Texas potato salad
When you run across a bag of potatoes you bought in the early days of the pandemic, and they’re starting to sprout roots, it’s time to make Texas Potato Salad. This is a true comfort classic that goes with any … Continue reading
Recipe: Easiest Sourdough Bread
What makes this the easiest sourdough bread? First, it has a lower ratio of water to flour so it’s easier to handle and less likely to deflate in the oven if you let it proof too long. Second, it relies … Continue reading
Baking sourdough bread during the pandemic
Lots of new folks are finding their way to Burnt My Fingers these days, and many head straight for our post on how to make sourdough bread in your Instant Pot. But it’s a bit of an (intentional) misdirection because … Continue reading
Comfort Classics: Better-than-Mounds-Bars
Our Cashew Nut Clusters really are better than Mounds Bars! You get the same holy trinity of dark chocolate/coconut/nuts but without the corn syrup and preservatives, and we up the game by using high quality dark chocolate, cashews instead of … Continue reading
Let’s make Chinese takeout at home!
In upstate New York, almost all Chinese takeout places are currently closed. A local paper surveyed them* and found that most were unable to get standard ingredients, like egg roll wrappers, that are shipped from the NYC area. Hopefully that … Continue reading
Comfort Classics: Lemon Bars
My mother loved lemon bars, and I would always pick one up at Putnam Market in Saratoga Springs before I got on the plane to visit her at her assisted living facility in Austin. She’d divide the bar and eat … Continue reading
The great egg cream controversy
I’m writing the day before Passover and have found, unfortunately, that there is very little availability of the U-Bet Kosher for Passover Chocolate Syrup this year and it is not safe to go from store to store looking for it. … Continue reading
Food for thought: The Takeout food blog
Judging from our own stats, people are spending a lot of time looking for ideas on things to cook at home. Which is how we discovered The Takeout food blog. This Chicago-based site is where we learned that Alinea, Grant … Continue reading
Takeout 2.0 is here, and will be with us for a while
Saratoga Springs is a seasonal tourist town, which means 8 months of the year the local restaurants are barely hanging on. The mandated closings due to COVID-19 have been a devastating blow. Some have shuttered for good, others announced they’re … Continue reading
Thank heaven for corned beef and cabbage
In the time of COVID-19, we’ll be switching our focus on simpler meals that can be prepared using ingredients that are already in your home or readily available. Today being St. Patrick’s Day, we can start with a real winner: … Continue reading