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Category Archives: Eating
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
How to make an Ethiopian combination plate
When you go to an Ethiopian restaurant in the U.S., you likely order a vegetarian Ethiopian combination plate and then a meat dish or two (which tends to be much more expensive) on the side. This is a satisfying and … Continue reading
Recipe: Ethiopian Fried Beef and Onions (Siga Tibs)
Ethiopian Fried Beef and Onions comes not from my usual Teff Love, but from Ethiopia: Recipes and Traditions from the Horn of Africa by Ethiopian chef and TV personality Yohanis Gebreyesus. Unlike Kittee Berns’ vegan cookbook, it’s full of meat … Continue reading
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