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Tag Archives: Saratoga
Taste test: Kettle style potato chips
What’s the best kettle-style potato chip? Time for a taste test. According to food scientist Harold McGee, kettle-style potato chips are harder and crunchier than “regular” potato chips because they are cooked longer and at varying temperatures, allowing starches and … Continue reading
Recipe: Saratoga Slaw
The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Saratoga County held a 4-H fundraiser recently featuring Cornell chicken served with various sides including a thimbleful of slaw. Did you make the slaw here, we asked? Yes, everything is our recipe. A friendly AI … Continue reading
Offbeat Saratoga Springs during the Belmont
The Belmont Festival is back in Saratoga Springs for a second year, with five days of racing from Wednesday June 4 through Sunday June 8. We worked as a host at a private picnic area last year and the attendees … Continue reading
Recipe: Donnelly Swiss Steak
I snagged this Swiss Steak recipe from neighbor and Facebook friend Jackie Donnelly. She spends much of her time studying microflora in the nearby forests, so I suspected that anything which would lure her indoors had to be pretty exceptional. … Continue reading
Food for Thought: searching for culinary origins
Elizabeth Weil wrote an arresting culinary origins story a few years ago which was published in Saveur. It seems that Weil’s grandfather invented the Reuben Sandwich in the 1920s when he oversaw the kitchen at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, … Continue reading
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Tagged Guss' Pickles, Reuben sandwich, Saratoga, Saratoga Chips
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Let’s talk about Saratoga County Restaurant Week
Restaurant weeks are promotional periods during which local establishments offer a special menu at a fixed price to attract more business. To us the fixed price is key. If it’s $35 for dinner, let’s say, I want to see what … Continue reading
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Tagged restaurant week, Saratoga, Saratoga County Restaurant Week
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What Saratoga Restaurant Week looks like in 2022
Being obsessively cheap, we perk up when our local restaurant week rolls round, hoping for some real bargains and creative menu design that motivates us to try someplace new. For 2022 Saratoga Restaurant Week runs from November 7-13; lunches are $15 … Continue reading
Recipe: Chocolate Saratogas
Chocolate Saratogas are the contribution of Mrs. Frank H. Miller, daughter of former Senator from Missouri Edward V. Long, to the Congressional Club Cookbook (1993 Edition). There is a tradition of crackers with chocolate in the South, but I have … Continue reading
Eating at the Skidmore dining hall
For the past few weeks I’ve been eating lunch at the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall at Skidmore College. It’s organized in the same way as the dining halls at UMass Amherst, which I loved when my son was in college, though … Continue reading