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.

World Refugee Day is this Saturday, June 22

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

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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How to cook a perfect steak

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

To cook a perfect steak, start with a well-seasoned cast iron skillet. I have decided I prefer this method because the delicious juices accumulate in the pan rather than dripping into the fire. You can use anything that doesn’t require … Continue reading →

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How to present a pickle plate

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

It irks me that places are charging $4 or so for a “pickle plate” the size of a saucer with 3 or 4 choices. I would rather go to Tommy’s Joynt in San Francisco, where there is a pickle jar … Continue reading →

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Recipe: Fennel Braised Pork Chops

Posted on May 2, 2019 by Burnt My Fingers

A tweak of the recipe in Alison Roman’s Dining In. Fennel Braised Pork Chops are sweet/sour/crunchy on the outside and throw off a wonderful liquid which you can use to prepare some accompanying greens. Serves 2 with very large portions … Continue reading →

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