For years my cousin has hosted a big Thanksgiving meal, with about 20-30 guests. Her husband always makes two prime ribs, one super rare and the other medium rare, infused with cloves and cloves of garlic. A friend cooks and brings over an amazing turkey, and I pick up a Honeybaked Ham. Every year, the prime rib…

My lunchtime poke bowl place runs about a dozen of Gourmet Makes and Tasty’s Making It Big videos on a nonstop loop. I feel like I’ve seen each of their videos multiple times now, but they are nevertheless hypnotic. I love Claire of Gourmet Makes, because she doesn’t have the smiling sheen that I normally associate…

Glad to see Danny Fingeroth is still around. I remember him as an editor at Marvel Comics back when I was collecting comics in the ‘80s.

Holy crap, premiering tonight?  Getting ready to laugh AND cry.

Yay, a Donna Bowman sighting!

My P.E. teacher in junior high would tell us that the carnauba wax found in Tic-Tacs was the same thing that we would see in car wax.  I stopped eating Tic-Tacs after that.  

I’ve always been one to give a new restaurant 3 months before I try it out. I figure all the kinks will have been worked out, and I avoid the crush of people that are stampeding to a grand opening.

Getting concerned that we haven’t seen Melissa Villasenor for two episodes now. I feel like the show is wasting her talents. She’s a gifted impressionist, and she just has this goofy attitude that has always made me laugh.

No kidding.  That roe at the top...I’m going to slobber over my work keyboard.

Here in San Diego, Rubio’s is offering a free taco with a purchase of a drink.

Definitely agree with PrestidigitAzn’s recommendation of Spicy Chili Crisp. I just finished off a bottle of the mushroom version, and it was fantastic.

I can’t wait for one of my rich relatives to get this so I could try it out.  I hope it allows for adding different nuts, salts, and spices so I could create my own ideal chocolate bar.  

But how do you feel about chocolate chips?  There must be common ground.

There are two foods that I detest, and they both stem from childhood experiences where they masqueraded as something else: raisins and olives. Raisins pretended to be delicious chocolate chips in muffins or cookies. Expecting that hard chocolate chip texture and instead getting this mealy, sticky, cloying mess of a…

Gosh darnit, I just love a Kate Bernot article. I feel like I learn something, and I tend to have a goofy grin on my face by the end.

I’ve seen women clap like Nicole Kidman when they have really fancy nails and don’t want to chip anything.  Lady Gaga, I assumed she had a clutch or something tucked under her left arm that immobilized it.

Of the build-your-own pizza chains in Southern California (Pieology and PizzaRev also come to mind), I do like Blaze pizza the best. For someone that loves savory flavors like me, their different choices of garlic and onions are a dream come true.  They also have very cheerful customer service, which I appreciate.  

HE TOOK THAT MEAL TO FLAVORTOWN!

With the popularity of the “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” documentary (and the upcoming Tom Hanks film), I could see SNL pulling off a mockumentary with the Mr. Robinson character.

Shower beer drinking has been a heated topic at work since summer started. I think it’s strange. I’ve never had any sort of beverage in the shower, and I think a beer especially will warm too quickly. Two of my co-workers heartily support the idea, and one of them has a shower beer on a regular basis.