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.

My first porchetta

Posted on May 14, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 12, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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!

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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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Comfort Classics: Texas potato salad

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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Recipe: Easiest Sourdough Bread

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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Baking sourdough bread during the pandemic

Posted on April 23, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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Comfort Classics: Better-than-Mounds-Bars

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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Let’s make Chinese takeout at home!

Posted on April 14, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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Comfort Classics: Lemon Bars

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Burnt My Fingers

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 →

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