i live in NJ. i can locate a very fine bagelry in every direction. yet, i make a variation of these all the time. mine are not “two ingredient bagels” because the dough also has salt and baking powder, but these help so much with the flavor and the bake. with this in mind, some thoughts:

Do not store your onions under the sink, because under the sink is not a thermally-consistent place. When you use hot water, it gets hot under the sink as the waste water passes through the pipes. Even with insulated pipes, you will find it makes a difference enough to bother produce. And if you have thin, ‘70s…

Many moons ago, a high school friend of mine codified this concept at Boston-area Chinese food joints by saying “if they can’t get chicken wings right, they aren’t going to do anything else right.” I mostly agree with his assessment, although my Bostonian benchmark is the boneless spare ribs. In either case, it’s…

Saag Paneer is essentially a spinach and cheese dip.  

I know yeast can die but for some reason it has never happened to me. My jar of Red Star active dry yeast has a “best by” date of March 2018 and was definitely not used up by 4 months after opening as it says to. More likely 4 years. I keep it refrigerated and it proofs just fine. I’ve used it twice in the last month,…

I can tell you the fictional food I least want to eat: Discworld dwarf bread. It is miraculous at preventing hunger: one look at the dwarf bread and everyone thinks “I’m not hungry enough to eat that!”

This is pretty much exactly what my wife and I have done for some years. Minor difference is that we each contribute monthly to the joint account (which we call the JBA, for Joint Budget Account), an amount that differs for each of us and has changed over the years as circumstances have. I might add, somewhat…

As a youth I used to deride every trend that came along but as an adult I know realize that

That was my thought too - even through the 90s when I went to school, my shorts weren’t especially short (we all wore umbros) but we all wore big ass t-shirts, which honest as someone who has start wearing a bra at 10, greatly appreciated. And needless to say at the time everyone wore scrunchies (and I still have a…

Picking out barrels is about as far as he could go anyway. They can’t change the mashbill, they are pretty consistent in how much they peat it and what proof they distill it too. Lagavulin doesn’t mess around much with different woods. I think the Distiller’s Edition is the only one that ever sees sherry casks and it…

Or that Taco Bell rolled out a new recipe that proved to be a dog.

It’s just a race to trot out a new product. Hoof it down to your nearest TB today!

...stopped serving seasoned beef this past weekend over concerns about quality standards.

Absolutely nothing can compete with Feedly. It is superior to everything available today.

“He died like he lived: drifting aimlessly wherever the current took him.”

“i kissed a girl, she disliked it” probably wouldn’t have been as big a hit

We went to The Loyalist and had the burger. It is better than the burger at Au Cheval and I keep going back and forth about whether it is better than the burger at Acadia, so I am going to call them equal. The two are very similar. Beefy, cheesy, rich, and with a perfect amount of pickle to offset all of that. That…

Especially when your rooting interest has a nice kushy lead

I’m sure watching it on grass makes the experience even better.