Hmm, that’s something no one ever posited to me. Interesting thought. (Usually they tell me “just have oatmeal for breakfast.” I have a hard enough time eating breakfast as it is without someone suggesting I eat something I don’t like that much.)

I say as someone who fully agrees some healthy foods are boring AF and there is nothing better than a tremendous smash burger and fries that you’re not really wrong. But, I also think this is kinda bleak - you CAN teach people how to make better choices, and that not all healthy stuff tastes like cardboard. You just…

I had two couples over for Easter about a decade ago, and the wife of one of them absolutely insisted on bringing a lamb cake. She said it was her specialty, and everyone loved them. So, I skipped the cassata trifle I usually make for Easter - not as festive, perhaps, but it’s a nod to my Sicilian family and the mix…

Every time I see Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant come out and just start laughing at whatever they’re saying almost from the get go, I compare that to Mikey Day and Alex Moffat nailing every Trump Brothers sketch I can remember. Day is an excellent straight man that serves whatever skit he’s in really well. (The Eddie…

Nine is my favorite modern doctor - he gave the character a reintroduction and a character arc you could actually embrace.

And that was why we only did the eggs on our own once.  It was cute, but the smell was horrendous, and while my husband loves a good runny egg, he doesn’t like them hard-boiled.  Waste of good eggs.

Mental image, secured.

It’s a soft-boiled egg served in an egg cup. Then you lop off the top part, and dip toast fingers into the yolk. (So the toast are “soldiers.”)

We eat a lot of them, too! Usually poached, scrambled, or some version of fried (over-easy, sunnyside up). I think we had chilaquiles at least twice a month during the pandemic. Just hadn’t boiled an egg in so damn long.

I mean, I recently googled soft-boiled eggs, because I hadn’t done them in a million years and I couldn’t remember the timing.  Nothing to do with easter - we were just bored with our usual pandemic cooking and wanted to do eggs and soldiers.

Sooo...sprinkle some in there or on top! This is just my family’s recipe and we have a few members with nut allergies. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s supposed to have them.

The Hell’s Kitchen Peanut Butter recipe is floating around out there. The trick is getting the roast perfect.

Oh, we adapted the NYT recipe for grilled cheese with apples. Their recipe calls only for apple butter, but we use both apple and peanut butters.

You’re right! That is good - Cheerwine should be enjoyed by everyone. :D

Diet Cheerwine is one of my favorites (this is apparently just a rebranding).  Sometimes, I just need a weirdly red soda that is sorta like Dr. Pepper, but better, and it fits the bill.

Why would you use a garlic press? It’s a pain in the ass, and achieves worse results than a microplane

Oh, man. Great article AND I am deeply looking forward to this series.

*hands you more tissues and some graham crackers*

Okay, so I lost my Mom 10 years ago to colon cancer - I was one of her primary caregivers for the year we had her from diagnosis to her death. To call that a traumatic year - the last week or so of hospice in particular - would be a gross understatement.

Or, if you’re in the right town, you can just support your favorite local Middle-Eastern restaurant - Lebanese, Syrian, whatever - and buy a vat of hummus from them. Throw in a batch of baba ghanouj while you’re at it, and they usually throw in the sliced up pitas.