I made a loaf of pan bread with some honey, brown sugar, and blitzed mixed nuts and it turned out to be surprisingly edible. Considering it was my first attempt at making bread and I essentially just used the process I normally make pizza dough with, I was happy with the results even if they only resulted in me ending…

I’ve been using crushed fire-roasted tomatoes for my sauce and I’ve been liking the result. The only real effort I have to make is dumping the tomatoes out on a mesh strainer and letting gravity do its thing for five minutes. Some people put anchovies in their sauce as well but I swap out the anchovies for fish sauce.…

Have you seen these people? These are exactly the kind of people who need to breed like rabbits. The mirror-breakers are the ones who need to keep things in their pants.

Of course I’m late to the party because I’m just now seeing this article some 7 months after it went up...

I feel like if you already have a pizza stone, you’re halfway there!

The first time I got a crispy bottom on a solely oven-cooked skillet pizza (no further stove-top heating after leaving the oven) I sliced up the pizza and let the slices rest on the cutting board. I got once piece with a nice crunchy bottom and by the time I went back for the 2nd piece, it had gotten flaccid on the…

It really depends on the type of pizza. A pizza that gets cooked in a specialty oven is obviously going to be harder to replicate without access to that oven. Pan pizza is pretty easy to faithfully replicate once you nail the sauce and dough, and that’s pretty much the reason why I like making pan-style at home. It’s…

I too am a fan of canned salt tamales.

I don’t know if Dave’s naga jolokia sauce uses capsaicin or not, but it has a flavor that I can detect even when diluted to the point of being a couple drops in a bowl of soup. That being said, I’d rather go with a sauce that can be used as an actual sauce and as a vehicle to deliver heat. I’d kill for an enchilada…

I can’t not feel happy about seeing a picture of a cat, but my brain is actually zeroing in on the bottle of hot sauce in the background. Is that weird?

I assume the sausages are fully-cooked in this recipe. My mother always used to do variants of this sheet pan bake with onion, peppers, starches, and fully-cooked bratwurst.

The appropriate level of white sauces in a ranking of the 100 best dipping sauces is “none”.

The appropriate level of white sauces in a ranking of the 100 best dipping sauces is “none”.

I’m fairly certain the Barker’s hot varietal showed up in a local grocery store about 4-5 years ago. What I saw were three chiles labeled under Hatch: mild, hot, and xtra-hot. I thought nothing about the heat level of the xtra-hot because I assumed that at their basic level, Hatch chiles are very similar to Anaheim…

There’s also the mac & cheese commercial where the kid claims to be “allergic to all things green”, so in comes Kraft mac & cheese to the rescue! It’d be funnier if it weren’t such an accurate reflection on this country’s eating habits and how large food conglomerates both perceive those habits and distort them in…

So I guess we can add defective taste buds to the growing list of deficiencies the man possesses then. I’ve tried a few of those “oh, you can’t even taste the cauliflower, you won’t even notice it’s there” carb-cutters and I’ve been able to detect the cauliflower in every single one. At this point, if someone happened…

A couple cans of chili-seasoned beans thrown into a pan with sauteed onion and green pepper makes for a great burrito filling. The best part is the whole meal costs about the same as one pound of 80/20 ground beef and it gets even cheaper if you use unseasoned beans and use homemade taco/chili seasoning. Ranch-style…

Oops, I can’t edit the previous post anymore, but the peanut butter was actually agreeing with me. I didn’t see the “hard-G” label and assumed that the peanut butter was trying to say that “GIF” and “JIF” are interchangeable.

Gift is my go-to comparison because it’s the most similar word to GIF. No other word in the English language begins with g-i-f or even has that letter combination in it.

It’s probably the same reason why recipes that call for substituting a portion of a starchy component with cauliflower don’t do a full-on replacement. The end result would just be terrible. 

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