There’s a hot dog place in San Francisco that has Chicago Dogs but instead of sport peppers, they add banana pepper or pepperoncini and it’s just not the same at all.

I miss when Publix had sliced sport peppers available as an add-in for their deli subs.

I don’t remember where I read it, but I picked up an indispensable tip for brown butter. There’s never enough of the toasty brown bits, so add a sprinkle (or tablespoon if you like) of powdered milk to the melting butter giving it more solids to fry.

I think she’s using way too much vegetable. Just pass the can over a pound of butter, put the can back and call it a side dish. Also, great for dipping frozen butter sticks in.

Ranch water is dead. Palomas are where it’s at. (Just replace the Topo Chico for Squirt grapefruit soda for an authentic Mexican paloma.)

The marg is dead, ranch water’s where it’s at

I love those Sweet Heats from Mt. Olive.  Just picked up a jar of their pickle salsa to try and was not disappointed.

You’re in Portland?!?! Now I feel even worse about being a perma-gray here. I talk about Portland all the time, how much I love pickles, and post often, yet here I still linger...

You know, this is basically a fancier version of German cucumber salad, gurkensalat, a very Old-World-y, comfortable, easy thing to make, and which is my favorite thing to pair with chicken paprikash or ghoulash.

I made some hot pickle last weekend (or two?) - they may be ready for this treatment. 

Okay, so here in the UK we have a food store called Iceland. Yes, it sounds naff, especially when you think of the cool little country in the North Atlantic, but it’s actually really good for frozen basics and essentials. And one of the things they have is frozen steam bags of ready-cooked rice and vegetables.

It seems odd to me when businesses find they have too many customers, and complain about that state of affairs.

Agree. I was dubious of potatoes in my Taco Bell food. I think they tried them long ago in lunch/dinner items and I didn’t care for them much. But breakfast is much more suited to them and this is the best of the options.

Taco Bell’s menu is made for app ordering. So easy to customize and not have to try and explain through the drive thru speaker or someone at the register barely paying attention.

A comment that may be slightly off-topic, but eh here goes! This article about a sandwich-maker that I’ve never heard of (but apparently many do know him!) and is now no longer able to post his videos. What’s the point of this article other than to make us all sad and increasing the negative feedback loop that seems…

Everyone raves about Raising Cane’s sauce for their chicken fingers, but not many people know that they also have a honey mustard sauce that they make fresh in house. It’s not even on the menu, but you can ask for it in place of the Cane’s sauce and it’s pretty good.

“As the summer went on, the humble salumiere amassed over 1.5 million followers, including plenty of fascinated Americans. Some drooled over the quality of his ingredients; others shrieked in horror at his lack of condiments and cavalier disposal of the “good part” of the bread.”

Presuming these people were coming to buy sandwiches and the store was making sandwiches for a profit, why would they be against it? “Oh no! Our little sandwich shop is becoming world famous and people want to visit it from all over!”

I love this story. Seriously. It’s the most European thing ever and I mean that so positively.