This. Freeze the liquid overnight in a plastic container, pop it out of the plastic container and vacuum seal the already-frozen puck.

Nope. Theirs is made with sausage.

Actually, Bojangles — a Popeye’s-like chain in the Southeast with a major marketing presence in college football — does have dirty rice, under that name, on its menu. Bojangles also has a great all-day breakfast menu, and — like Hardee’s — their biscuits are made from scratch at the restaurant.

My understanding is that Fuji TV used the “Backdraft” movie theme without clearance, or at the very least without clearance to use it in the U.S.A. They negotiated a settlement of some sort, and while the “Backdraft” theme continued for the original Food Network run of the Japanese episodes, any reruns since then…

Tiger Sauce has an interesting history — I remember reading a Nashville newspaper story back in the 1980s when a Knoxville company (which later sold out to Reily) resurrected the product after a couple of decades. As I understand it, back in its *original* heyday it was sometimes used as a promotional giveaway by…

There was a TV movie adaptation in 1992, with Angela Lansbury, Diana Rigg and Omar Sharif (!). As best I can tell from Wikipedia, the UK editions used “Harris,” while the US editions used “ ‘Arris.”

They wouldn’t even be able to see, since the photons would presumably be too large to interact with the rods and cones making up their retinas. This has been a long-term gripe of mine, ever since I was a teenager and Isaac Asimov -- who had gamely agreed to write a novelization of “Fantastic Voyage” -- picked the very…

I prefer the version you used -- but you need to clarify that there are *two* different versions of the powdered mix. One is meant to be mixed with buttermilk and mayo, the other is meant to be mixed with milk and mayo. (Presumably, the second version contains cream of tartar or some other acidic ingredient.)…

I live in a small rural town, and I was disappointed four or five years ago when our local stand-alone Pizza Hut replaced itself with a delivery-and-pickup-only storefront. I was not a regular visitor to their buffet, but I did it every now and then. It was reasonably priced, and it included a salad bar. (There were…

You obviously didn’t watch the piece. One of Oliver’s points was that — because the seemingly-low startup costs — many Subway franchisees turn out *not* to be big ownership groups or wealthy corporations. A lot of other chains now prefer an individual or group who will take on multiple locations, but many Subway…

“White Cheddar Is A Lie”

My understanding is that the podcasts will still be available where they are now -- but there will also be a Team Coco channel on SiriusXM as part of the deal, and obviously that would be for subscribers.

Only when pickled. Otherwise ... no. I pick them out of my salad and still don’t like the taste they leave behind.

The Captain D’s seafood chain now has posted at our local restaurant that it is serving Cheesecake Factory cheesecake, although there doesn’t seem to be any mention of it on the company’s website. (They have long offered cheesecake by the slice as a dessert option, but I’ve never seen it specifically identified as…

If you’ve never seen it, look for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring a low-budget production of “Hamlet” made for German television, starring a very young Maximillian Schell (and the English-language dub of Claudius is the instantly-recognizable voice of Ricardo Montalban!). They have a field day with…

I found it once at a local Latino grocery in my small, rural town -- but after I got it home, I found that it was past expiration date. I first tried the stuff in Costa Rica, and I love it.  Now you have me craving some.

I get the reference, but I tend to think it would be *easier* for Taco Bell to go meatless. The difference between real ground meat and the imitation product would be a lot less noticeable in seasoned taco meat than in a burger.

Sorry about that! https://medium.com/@johnicarney/a-sourdough-saga-279988447527

I have enjoyed baking bread over the years. I had a sourdough starter years ago, but when the big sourdough craze was going on, I was still going to work every day, and my oven was (and still is) kind of on the fritz. But I do have a bread machine -- don’t laugh. It really is a wonderful appliance. Just in the past…

Kenji Lopez-Alt debunked the “no soap” thing a few years ag0, and I know he’s right — but I still don’t use soap on my cast iron, except in extreme circumstances. It’s just baked into me at this point.