At the “Milk Street Stella Parks Meringue Master Class” last fall, we used heavy duty aluminum foil folded into a ring. The height of the ring controls the amount of bowl in the water, but also level and centers the heat.

Y’know, if you don’t have a chopstick on hand.

I would like to nominate Boston/butter/baby bibb lettuce. Yes, it’s the antithesis of the perceived ideal Caesar salad, BUT:

>It’s easy to grow your own, and even though you might have missed the early spring indoor planting/transfer it’ll grow well into September (and early October for some areas) indoors and out. It…

YES. That might be my biggest gripe, but I think it’s the hardest one to translate to page. There are the people who swear by HelloFresh and Blue Apron and IPs (these are the children of the Showtime Rotisserie), and then there are those of use who live to wait for sugar sauces to almost boil over and catch it in the…

I’ve a countertop unit that I assume my grandmother picked up from QVC about 20 years ago, and the 2-3 times I’ve used it to make kahlua pig, it came out no different than a slow cooker. Faster, yes. Better? Hardly.

I use my slow cooker at least twice a week, and my rice cooker even more frequently for small meals on…

My apartment is 3 rooms side by side, with the kitchen in the middle. In the winter, on coq au vin and all’amitriciana days, it’s great. On any day I need to make broccoli or it’s family members, well.. thankfully my girlfriend is into candle making.

The response and further argument I have is something I’ve been wanting to pitch to Claire, which I’m sure will go over very well given the site’s regular posting of related tips and tricks.

Start here.

Instant Pots are my grumpy old man moment. I can’t wait for the fever to die off.

Punch Rockgroin!

HEY! You can make refried beans out of any beans. After Gritzer’s post a few years ago on SE, I tried it with chickpeas. OH MAN. THE GLORY.

ROLL FIZZLEBEEF

FRIDGE LARGEMEAT
RIP STEAKFACE
BIG MCLARGEHUGE
CHUNK HARDPEC

• First of all, what is your favorite grocery store? In MA, it’s Big Y. Hands down. Great pricing and quality meat, seafood and produce that is on par with Roche Bros, Wegman’s and Whole Foods. Plus, when I made octopus last summer, they had it ready to go. It also helps that I’m in there 4 days a week, and most of the…

And if you freeze it just right, you can use the wider julienne blade and make little strips for fajitas. Or even dice those up for a breakfast burrito.

my favorite thing about my deli job was the almost useless ends of proscioutto shanks. cutting thick chunks off of what’s left and rendering out as much fat as we could for bolognese on Fridays

be sure to wrap the whole fookin’ abomination in a newspaper and call it “CLAIRE’S CRISPY BITTLES” or something of equal limey, smother in in brown sauce and arrange it in such a fashion that Sir David Attenborough has to narrate the video in a tone of Eldritch horror for what you’ve done to the planet

EXCUSE ME THEY ARE “BEANZ”

beer, obv

Claire is, hands down, my favorite raccoon.

ok

A vegetarian would