I love cabbage in just about every form.  Okay, straight-up boiled cabbage isn't the most wonderful thing in the world, but it's nourishing, and at least tolerable with some butter and salt.

Kids love pigs in blankets.  Get some hot dogs, roll them in frozen crescent rolls, bake them until they're golden (basically, follow the tube's instructions as if there were no hot dogs bulging out of the rolls), and repeat until you've got enough for a kids' party.  You can easily make several dozen of those, and…

Hah!  That's great.

Wow, that sounds great!

Aren't figs just the best?  I like to chop up figs and dates and add them to a little bit of cottage cheese with some sunflower seeds.

I love bivalves so much that I can imagine eating four dozen of them.  Especially raw oysters.  They go down so easy and tasty.  I get a craving for them about once every six months, but I live in western Wisconsin, where it's difficult to satisfy that craving — so I just suppress it until it goes away, usually in…

I got a bag of mixed frozen seafood at Trader Joes once.  It was pretty good, as I remember.  It had little-bitty scallops, calamari rings, and maybe shrimp, too.  Anyway, I used that to make a white-wine scallopini-type pasta, and it was great.

Well, the thing about squid ink is that it erases parts of your memory, usually those parts dealing with what squid-ink products taste like…

I grabbed an uneaten meatball off my son's plate last Friday night, as I was clearing the dishes.  I had already chewed it up and was ready to swallow it when I suddenly remembered it was Friday, I'm Catholic, and I wasn't supposed to eat meat, which is why I went to the trouble to make myself a piece of fish in the…

Sometime in the last year or two, @avclub-71348decaf1df2bb85be2ece24cc2a1d:disqus .

Yes, we've got subtly new responses, and they have to put little cheat-sheets in the pews, with the new words in boldface so we know what to say, after decades of saying it a slightly different way.

Thanks!

That gratin sounds awesome.  Is there a recipe you could share?  I've been really craving leafy greens a lot lately.

Damn, tell us how that tamale-calzone turns out.  I love tamales, and the corn meal on the bottom of many pizza crusts might actually have prepared us all for this kind of taste combination.

@avclub-4a51fda79bbd54b4e7327dd6559b6c4d:disqus , always with you.

Good God!  Those fig brownies sound all kinds of awesome!

I made a hilariously easy, but oh-so-delicious stir-fry.  The recipe is here:

I would have thought a guy with such an insane laugh would have a better sense of humor.

It's not so much his meat itself, but the thinking about it that is treif.

As a non-celebrity, I'm just glans to know my privacy is secure.  There's a vas deferens between my puny little problems and the ones Hamm and his colleagues must deal with.