This is revelatory. I’ve baked with all kinds of ingredients but never with baby food. I see now that it makes perfect sense. I make gougères every so often so I’ll have to try this. Of course that means I have to find baby food, and being childless this will be a whole new culinary adventure for me.

It’s far too late for that. We’ve been together almost the entirety of our adult lives, and we’re not young.

The last time my Boston-born husband and I were driving through Ontario (a while ago) he noticed a Boston Pizza.

Have you ever taken them to an Olive Garden? Or a Red Lobster? I’ve never been to any of these places and I’m a New Yorker in my mid-50s. I don’t say this out of snobbishness, just disinterest.

I was very happy that the Carnegie Deli finally closed. I have a few ex-pat New Yorker pals who grew up in NYC and when they return they always wanted to go there. It must have been much more low-key in the 80s and 90s, when they all got out. Same with Barney Greengrass, I can’t stand that place either, but at least…

I love club sandwiches and make them all the time. Here’s my recipe for the WASPiest one:

It’s an interesting and certainly worthy idea, but I looked at the menu. Every bowl has too much going on. Also, who knew that so many cuisines used Adobo spiced chicken and spice-rubbed steak. I assume the spices aren’t varied because of the multi-culti blend, so it’s Chopt, with a dose of guilt alleviation for those …

I love pickled herring in cream sauce. So good, although a little sloppy, on crackers or rye bread toasts. 

I do this. Whenever I host a Thanksgiving I make some meat that isn’t turkey. It’s a shame I don’t like it more, because it’s a fairly easy and very cheap way to feed a horde. I’m not sure what I’ll be making this year. I was thinking a big boeuf bourguignon but the forecast says it’s going to be 50 (and rainy) so a…

He “gifted” you with a modified meatball salad. Yes, such a thing exists. I looked around for a recipe and I found this one:

This is British ingenuity at its finest. He is a worthy successor to Alan Turing, who worked at Bletchley Park and cracked the German Enigma code during World War II.

That location is also really close to MetLife Stadium. I can imagine what the Popeyes is like when a game lets out.

Do not look a gift chicken sandwich in the mouth.

Problem is, he’s the main breadwinner. I work and pull my own weight but he makes a lot of money, so for stuff like this he pays for it.

The response was a link to a wiki page that described the movie, without commentary. A missed opportunity. There are all kinds of responses I could have written.

Oh I’ll do the stick ‘n peel wallpapering eventually.

It’s probably a small b&b. The Napa Valley has tons of those, and all the Nutella crap can be easily removed, even the wallpaper, because now there are products that are like cabinet liners that can be easily applied and then peeled off and thrown into the trash when you get sick of it. (Source: Me. I wanted to do…

I have a worse story. Sometimes I’m in an office and for lunch I go to a deli that makes all kinds of delicious things, including Philly cheesesteaks. I put my order in and, per norm, wandered over to get a bag of chips and around the back to get some water. I returned and there was my cheesesteak, wrapped up and…

You don’t have a place near you that offers it? I sometimes work in a really dingy party part of Manhattan, very throwback “Taxi Driver,” and there’s a Poke bowl place. Could be a quirk of the neighborhood, I suppose.

The Taco Bell Palm Springs pop-up was genius because absolutely nobody in their right mind wants to be in PS in August. It might be a dry heat, but it’s like a convection oven when it hits 110 degrees. So much closes, including lots of the smaller resorts. You could probably stay at a 5-star resort in PS for like…