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.

Jersey Mike’s: how to get an excellent sub at your local strip mall

I first encountered Jersey Mike’s in the Las Vegas airport. I was not expecting much, and was surprised to get a more than decent sub though at elevated airport prices. Then Jersey Mike’s opened a store in my local strip … Continue reading

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Recipe: Instant Pot Pork Adobo

Adobo is often referred to as the Filipino national dish, an irresistible medley of rich tangy sauce and meltingly tender meat. The Instant Pot is ideal for making Pork Adobo because you can sauté the ingredients, cook the meat in … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: China Sichuan Food

I ran across China Sichuan Food for the umpteenth time while researching Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage recipes (her recipe is here) and realized it’s an excellent idea starter for your own Sichuan dishes. The blogger, Elaine, is a China native but writes … Continue reading

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World Refugee Day is this Saturday, June 22

Did you make it to Utica last year for the World Refugee Day celebration and follow our itinerary? Neither did we, but we’re planning on it this coming Saturday. This post has the (approximate) hour by hour details. As before, … Continue reading

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Recipe: Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage

Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage is our approximation of a favorite dish at Albany’s Northeast Chinese II. It has an irresistible sweet/sour/hot flavor with the additional mala of Sichuan peppercorns. Theirs includes slices of steamed pork belly, which you can certainly add … Continue reading

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In pursuit of perfect pickled tripe

Our recent freezer shaming brought urgency to a long-delayed project: creating a pickled tripe in aspic to match the manna experienced in Pennsylvania’s Amish country in the summer of 2017. We had visited the Green Dragon Friday market in Ephrata, … Continue reading

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How to win your crawfish boil

Live crawfish season runs from roughly March through June, putting the Memorial Day weekend at its epicenter. This makes the holiday an ideal time for a crawfish boil in which the mudbugs are cooked in a salty, peppery broth along … Continue reading

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Freezer hoarding

My blogger friend Daniel B revealed something remarkable: he has 40 chicken carcasses in his freezer. Talk about freezer hoarding! These are supermarket rotisserie chickens which have been mostly plucked clean of their meat but with some scraps and connective … Continue reading

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Food for Thought: Alison Roman’s Dining In

Even though I am a huge fan of Alison Roman’s recipes in the New York Times, I resisted buying her cookbook,  Dining In. Why? Because her salty kitchen essentials, the first items in the book, were all head nodders, things that … Continue reading

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Eating habits

When I was a kid, I had a health science teacher who told us our eating habits change every seven years. While I no longer hunger for Lik-M-Aid and cinnamon toothpicks, I have always regarded that lesson as fake science. … Continue reading

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