I always have multi-colored pepper in the grinder. The pink peppercorns (which are of course not peppercorns at all) really add a unique floral note that I love to everything I use it on. I often whip up a small batch of white gravy to go with leftover biscuits or even just bread, and with slightly browned butter and…

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This is the pizza I grew up on in downstate Illinois, a regional chain called Monical’s. My favorite: pepperoni, mushroom, onion, green olive, not too much cheese, and a lot of very good savory sauce on a thin crispy crust. This one looks like it may have pepperoncini, which is also good. Definitely best when it’s…

When a server asks if I need sauce for my steak, I have been known to say, “I hope not.”

When I was a kid Pizza Hut wasn’t around yet, at least in our town. There was one little local place that my family never went to for some reason, so if we had pizza it was Chef Boyardee made from the box and it was a treat. I still kinda like the taste of that thin crunchy Chef Boyardee crust.

My daughter lives overseas, and we occasionally send her either boxes of mac ‘n’ cheese, or just the Kraft powder or Velveta sauce (both of which you can actually buy separately). Last year when we visited, we took about 4 jars of molasses, one for her and the others as gifts for her friends. You can’t buy brown sugar…

Your mother’s car was a Kia Soul, and your father’s car smelt of elderberries!

Second nomination, a lemon squeezer like this: https://www.amazon.com/Squeezer-Quality-Aluminum-Manual-Citrus/dp/B07NT4K8WV/ . But note that the pictures for that have the lemon in backwards! The cut side goes DOWN towards the holes in the bottom! You will get some juice with the cut side up, but also make a mess in…

Second nomination, a lemon squeezer like this: https://www.amazon.com/Squeezer-Quality-Aluminum-Manual-Citrus/dp/B07N…

Get at least one good cookie sheet. Stay away from non-stick baking pans and fancy expensive double-layer ones. Non-stick will burn the bottoms of your cookies, and are really not needed with as much fat as is used in most cookie recipes. I’ve had great results from good restaurant-quality plain aluminum sheets like…

Get at least one good cookie sheet. Stay away from non-stick baking pans and fancy expensive double-layer ones.…

My dad and my father-in-law always order steaks well-done. My FIL wanted prime rib for Father’s Day. I told my wife, he’ll eat prime rib medium rare or not at all. :) He really liked it, fortunately.

One that comes to mind is set in Mostar, Bosnia. My oldest daughter went to an international school there, and when we went for her graduation we had lunch with several of her classmates at a crepe restaurant. They had all kinds of crepes, savory and sweet. It wasn’t the food that made the memory, though, it was the…

Whew, I hate haggling. I don’t travel a lot, but I was looking at a wool wall hanging once on a trip. It was $20, and I just paid for it, because it seemed like a fair price to me. It would have been twice that back home.

After seeing this and the post about sorrel, I should mention sumac. Last year I picked some wild sumac here in Southern Illinois to make Caucasus-region dishes, and I also steeped some to make a pitcher of sumac...tea? I added a little sugar, and it tastes almost exactly like Lipton’s citrus green tea. Delicious!

And of course the folks at Tire Rack are also car enthusiasts, as they sponsor One Lap of America, the modern incarnation of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.

And of course the folks at Tire Rack are also car enthusiasts, as they sponsor One Lap of America, the modern…

I have a cloth mask my sister-in-law made for me. I pulled out the small wire she used and carefully bent a piece of stiff wire from a clothes hanger so it closely matches my nose and cheeks, then threaded it back inside the mask and sewed it shut. It fits great now and doesn’t fog my glasses.

I’m just going off what the linked article said, that the V8 was 235hp.

They replaced the 253hp V6 with a 235hp V8? smh

Ooh, they had these at the Christmas market we went to in Atlanta last year. I regret not trying them now.

Well, there’s this, which my mom has at her house, and I have no idea what it is. It seems like maybe it should be hanging on a wall instead of sitting down like this?