I’ve definitely added butter to a skillet that was a little too hot and had to live with the results, however, I’ll personally vouch for one time where that smoky flavor was actually not only acceptable but downright delicious; I was toasting rice for braised chicken burritos and I accidentally burnt the butter. The…

We’re at T-minus seven days and counting until Thanksgiving and I may have just permanently lost my appetite. Thanks!

I could’ve been more specific, but the cooked bacon bits are part of the dish. Sometimes there’s little slivers of almonds too, although those seem to get omitted from time to time. The bottom line is I get to enjoy a green bean side that hasn’t been rendered inedible with the inclusion of cream of mushroom. 

I can’t blame them, everyone knows that cilantro’s a gateway herb into Mexican cuisine. Once you have a nice taco with garnished with fresh cilantro, that weak shit that Taco Bell slings just won’t cut it anymore.

This isn’t even a fair fight for me. I can leave green bean casserole behind without a second thought.

I’m always skeptical when I hear about a really respected pizza place making their sauce with high quality canned tomatoes and little else. I feel like I always have to add seasoning (and not just salt) to crushed tomatoes in order to get the sauce to “pop” like I want it to. Even then, I’m adding a few savory…

That heatwave was one four day stretch in a season that’s nominally three months long; the other 86 whole days of summer weren’t too bad at all. We didn’t even really get one last bout of late season heat in the summer/autumn transition period, it pretty much turned cooler and autumn-like in September (still summer) an…

I’m not sure you’re familiar with the mid-late autumnal weather pattern in these parts. What some places call extraordinary rain, we call “Wednesday”. There’s a reason some river-adjacent lowlands are studded with modestly aged houses built on stilts, and those stilts weren’t an attempt to get ahead of a then…

I don’t see mango-coconut or peanut butter and banana, so this list is therefore invalid.

If I plan on eating a fruit that has an edible skin, I rinse for for roughly 15 seconds. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to rinse other fruits with peelable rinds (citrus, banana, avocado), but I don’t bother with it. There are three fruits that I consistently freeze with the skin on (persimmon, mango, and kiwi), and a…

If you ever get the craving for something both sweet and peanut buttery, try making something with powdered peanut butter and some kind of low/no-GI sweetener. I’ve been making PB “sandwich” bowls with powdered peanut butter, unsweetened almond milk, maple syrup (there are also sugar-free versions out there), and…

Anyone who’s ever shared a one bathroom apartment with someone else is probably familiar with this concept. 

Commercially prepared mustard is completely inhospitable to bacteria and spoilage, so if I eat enough honey mustard I’ll basically become immortal.

He wasn’t trying to kill these cyclists, he was trying to coal roll them. At some point during his attempt at coal rolling, he accidentally struck the cyclists. By no means should this lighten the weight of the book being thrown at the kid, but you’re making it sound like this kid is a stone-cold murderer as opposed…

I’ve been using Banza chickpea pasta for well over a year now and I think I actually like it more than dried wheat pasta. Chickpea pasta has a higher protein content and for me, the protein content is the selling point as opposed the lower carb content. I normally like making taco bowls with either rice or quinoa, but…

I like the carb balance tortillas as well, just for the added protein content and lower salt levels alone (having half of the calories of a regular flour tortilla is just a bonus). Honestly, I don’t even really care about carb content, mainly because carbs aren’t the boogey monster that some people make them out to be.…

My grade school served a lunch they called “turkey gravy” and it was instant mashed potatoes topped with a gravy that had chunks of meat in it. To expedite the eating process, I’d take the corn that was served on the side and dump it on the top of the gravy. Those KFC bowls reminded me a lot of those turkey gravy…

I’m fully aware that DST doesn’t actually effect the total length of daylight within any given day. I specifically used October as an example because it’s a month that already operates with less than 12 hours of daylight. As things currently are, the sunsets within the month are fairly early but still workable to some…

Year-long standard time would make for even earlier sunsets in a month like October. I’m at 48 degrees north and the sunsets in October currently drop from 6:45 to 5:45, if they lost another hour they’d essentially rob the entire month of the more comfortable, useable afternoon daylight. That extra hour of light in…

When I was visiting the folks last Christmas, my dad and I went to the store to get some things and I came across a Williamson’s spiced fruitcake in one of the displays. Fruitcake was always something he talked about like it was the worst thing in the world but in that moment, I realized I’d picked up that same…