Vodka is fine, but I’m always looking for an excuse to drink more gin, because I like the flavor. I’m currently in love with Tanqueray’s “rangpur lime” gin right now. Such citrus. So good.

OK, just... yes. Yes, I do want to try this. Grapefruit is my jam, gin greyhounds (or salty dogs) are my drinks, and I’m always trying to figure out how to drink Campari better. It’s so damn bitter, yet there’s something undeniably delicious lurking under there just waiting to be balanced out with the right…

Respectfully, I don’t know that a review of a product by someone whose personal tastes are the opposite of that product is really all that useful, although I suppose it does generate comments, so there’s that. :) I’d like to offer my own thoughts as a contrast. As someone who only drinks diet sodas and appreciates a…

I could write an entire article about your post. I’d title it “You Are Wrong About Basically Everything.”

Ahhh, the classic sidecar is really one of my favorites, and I think is one of the least-appreciated drinks these days. It’s simple, yet elegant, tastes great, and looks nice in a glass, too. It’s... okay, I confess, it’s sort of like the classy adult version of the orange Hi-C at McDonald’s (god rest its soul.) And I…

I think the most important takeaway points here are really to a) add enough butter and incorporate it well, and b) use heavy cream instead of (or at least along with) milk.

Hah, fair. If you don’t care about the steps, there’s not really much point to one of these doodads.

I had a misfit flash that I got as part of a program through my doctor’s office. Cheap little device, understated and very simple. It was kind of nice despite being cheaply made, because it was waterproof, and had replaceable batteries instead of messing with recharging. I wore it all the time and kept an eye on my…

I have made this a couple times and my opinion is that it is only delicious if you really like Chef Boyardee. I found it to be pretty dull overall and about the only thing more boring and sad would be just dumping a can of actual tomato soup on your noodles.

Hey, ham gravy is a thing. And it’s really, really good—salty, sweet, and savory. (You may choose to dilute the pan liquids to reduce the saltiness to your own taste.) I always make ham gravy when I do a holiday pepsi ham and it’s one of my favorite things on the planet.

Although I dearly love thanksgiving turkey and will generally be sad if i don’t get some form of turkey into my mouth during the month of November, I just don’t want to mess with a turkey if it’s only one or two people. Ham is just easier to deal with in pretty much every way, including dealing with the leftovers (you…

Chili! Beef stew! Split pea soup! Baked ham! Chickpea artichoke stew! Baked chicken and rice! All of the vegetables I can get my grubby hands on, roasted!

My vote: some sort of pate or terrine. Please cook meat paste for me, and then eat it with good bread and hardboiled egg slices or egg salad and little pickley things. Oh please, yes.

Honestly? One of the perks is that it’s a pretty pantry-friendly recipe that mostly uses kitchen basics and dried or canned goods, and it usually calls for the canned, quartered heart variety. (Not the marinated ones, though.) If you can find frozen, that would probably work fine, too. I’ve never made it with fresh,…

A really good cream of mushroom soup is a marvelous thing that’s pretty easy to make, yet hard to come by. Similar with cream of broccoli, a very underrated and good soup.

Oh yes, yes this is a thing to do. The specific type of vinegar/acid and the quantity can really affect the outcome of your soup in both taste and texture. With lemon juice I find a nice bright lift tucked into the chicken savory flavor. White wine vinegar can bring up a lot of flavor, too, and to me it seems like it…

Three ingredients, okay, this is more my speed. I can do this. I got the fruit, and I got the roll. But what’s up?

Perhaps slightly less beautiful after like three solid days of picnic-mayo diet, but thank you :) Also you are correct, both are vastly underrated and amazing. Braunschweiger on good toasted bread with onion and mayo (yes, more mayo, god help me I think I have a problem) is one of the dreamiest sandwiches on the…

I’ve been hiding from the heat wave here on the west coast and living the indoor picnic lifestyle, making and eating a lot of delicious mayo-based stuff: it’s egg salad, tuna salad, and macaroni salad all the way down. Also braunschweiger sandwiches when I get tired of egg or tuna. Probably taken a few years off my…

Noooooooo, no hot dunk eggs. I respectfully disagree with you on this one, Claire, no no no. No, please, no. Every single time I try the “lower them into hot water” thing, my eggs just crack and explode and it turns into a sad horror of exploded egg-wisps.