Mayo isn’t even fat, it’s an emulsion of liquid and lipid. The liquid in it prevents any kind of browning from happening before unwanted things start happening to either the bread or the cheese. It’d be like trying to sear steak in a skillet that has a thin layer of water simmering in it.

Grilled cheese sandwiches were on my shit list for a long time simply because the ones I were exposed to as a child were insipid versions prepared with terrible bread and even worse cheese. If I had any suspicions of them containing mayo, I don’t think I ever would’ve thought to give them a second chance during my…

Every time I use Better than Bouillon, there’s always globs of it left on the spoon. I feel bad just rinsing it off and letting it wash down the drain but I can only lick so much from the damn spoon before the salt becomes overwhelming.

Honestly, I just want to be able to use the bulk bins at the grocery store again. I like creating ever-evolving trail mixes and it’s tougher to do that with prepackaged things, especially dried fruit. 

The way the OP phrased their comment made it seem like they believed the punter was actually playing center and snapping the ball. That’s essentially removing a blocker from every play and not something a run-heavy game plan should be built on. I was trying to clarify that under center doesn’t refer to the center but…

Leftover salsa? I have no idea what this concept is...

The phrase under center actually refers to the quarterback. When the quarterback lines up under center, he takes the snap from right behind the center, whereas under shotgun or pistol, he would be behind the center by a little bit. The advantage from taking the snap under center is that those plays can be either runs…

Doesn’t pilaf need to be toasted in some kind of fat before the liquid gets added? I use butter to toast rice because the other oils I’ve used either fall flat or add an unwanted flavor to the cooked rice (olive oil, in my experience). Now on the other hand...bacon fat toasted rice? Hell yes.

Do burritos with seasoned beans and sauteed onions and peppers. Cotija cheese is a great way to include cheese without the calories because it’s a finishing cheese and not something that the burritos need to be smothered with. There’s also some vegan sausages that could elevate the protein content of the burritos, I’m…

I guess if the Appalachians can call themselves mountains, something in Colorado can call itself Appalachian.

It’s no worse than names that have a “son” in them that doesn’t have any relation to what precedes it. Historically, the “son” part in a name means a boy, and what precedes it is related to the name of the father. Hence, Jackson should mean the son of a father named Jack. In the meantime, we’ve completely destroyed…

When I was a kid, we always had rice cakes around and I’d liberally top them with peanut butter and sliced bananas. I haven’t actually gotten any kind of peanut butter in the last few years up until when I recently decided to try out powdered peanut butter, and even though it isn’t as rich as the pre-made stuff, it’s…

I can’t really pinpoint to what a dessert is really, so I’m gonna have to echo the sentiments of Potter Stewart - I know it when I see it.

Pizza is essentially a dessert food except no one makes that comparison because it isn’t overtly sweet or has chocolate in it. The problem with that is people tend to somewhat limit their intake of food that’s thought of as a dessert but without that label, that inhibition fades away. Hell, lots of main courses are…

I think people believe that the body actually metabolizes outside sources of fat into becoming fat cells for itself, which is not even close to how the digestive system works. In reality, fat is a very dense energy source than gets broken down by the digestive system pretty quickly because it doesn’t contain any…

I don’t think it’s possible to blow through a stop sign at a speed of nine whole miles per hour. That’s a California stop at best. 

As someone who uses a few miles of road in order to get to the nearest bike trail, garbage/recycling day has become the bane of my existence. I’m lucky that for most of the route, there’s a clear and visible shoulder, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of obstacles present that require me to use the lane of…

Chickpea pasta is also made with pea protein and the dried pasta has a smell and flavor reminiscent of fresh garden peas. It fades away as the pasta gets cooked and is pretty much undetectable once the pasta’s under any kind of sauce or in any kind of soup. I dunno why but I have this weird habit of eating a couple of…

I have some dates in the freezer right now. I like how they can still retain a palatable texture even at sub-freezing temps. I don’t eat a lot of ice cream but dates are an integral part of my frozen fruit repertoire and also the one that doesn’t require any prep.  

The recipe leads me to believe that any liquid in the dish gets soaked up by the grains, leading to the leaden, mushy mess the writer was describing. Otherwise, the sweet syrup could be replaced with tomato paste and it’d be pretty much beef barley stew with beans. I could eat a hearty beef barley stew once a week…