I ran out of milk recently and ended up combining in one bowl, multi-grain cheerios, full fat unflavored greek yogurt, whole almonds, and a generous tablespoon of Bonne Mamman strawberry preserves. It was amazing. And here I thought adding Coffee Mate flavored creamers to my cereal milk was so good.

I wanted to be angry but the last couple I’ve had have seemed ... different. Less tasty somehow. They seemingly changed the layering order. It used to be stupidly sideways so you’d get one layer at a time and now it’s not... and somehow it tastes worse?

Interesting! The one time I saw someone cooking these it was Kelis in a video, and she was grilling them on top of her stove on some kind of wire mesh cover. (No oil coat that I remember just toastiness.) So I went out and bought a BBQ basket and flipped it upside down and did it that way. It was a success! But…

In honor of the luscious graphic accompanying this article I just want to make sure everyone knows: you can microwave corn on the cob with NO prep work at all. NONE. NONE. 3 minutes on high for 1 ear, 5 minutes for 2-3, times will vary per microwave/not all microwaves can handle 3 quite as well. After cooking they…

More like a hush puppy with creamed corn filling.

Huh, the Ann Arbor fringe area stripmall location is staying open but the high end suburban mall location is closing... I suppose it’s a combination of the downward trend at malls and the affluence in Ann Arbor...

Thank you for the suggestion, I had really not considered them! 

Ironically I had a big stash of cardboard I could have used but sent for recycling. I’ll have tons of leaves from the neighbor’s tree in the fall though.

I bought a countertop container to save my scraps and wanted to start a pile in the back yard. I was easily filling up the ~3 gal bucket weekly. Unfortunately I’m on the edge of a rural area and the local wildlife immediately ripped up my compost scrap pile before it even got cooking. I even tried burying the scraps…

There was one near me but in the months before the pandemic it was particularly struggling. When Michigan closed restaurants they didn’t even try to do take-out. Now that restaurants are allowed to re-open the place is still closed. I suspect it’s gone for good.

I think they look nice. Maybe having the side of chips on the plate is causing some cognitive dissonance? The actual chips are crushed up and mixed in, not too different from cookies with pretzel bits inside. The soft tan dough looks really good to me, as she said, like “wedding” cookies. But ... you know ... I bet…

I do a lot of breakfast sandwiches and when it comes to sausage I have these tips: first, use waxed paper to get a clean patty press. What I do is put the ball of sausage on wax paper, add another sheet, then use a flat surface like the bottom of a 1 qt saucepan to press down evenly. What I’ve found is that to make a…

Speaking of uniformity in scrambled egg like dishes, I slowly noticed something I overlooked in both a combination of Korean & Japanese dramas and actual cooking videos that I would have never thought to do: pouring the scrambled egg mixture through a mesh strainer. I saw it being done especially if someone was going…

At least the last guy had the good sense to shake it a little. I think the can was out at room temperature too long. Sadly.

I have my mom’s classic rolling pin and sometimes I don’t use the handles and sometimes... I do!

Caveat - if any can ever looks like it’s swelling, it’s compromised and should be tossed safely and carefully disposed of so you don’t have a botulism bomb go off.

Also, even though food may not rot the proteins do break down. Year past the date dry pasta, for example, might not kill you, but the texture will be…

Temperature is definitely my main factor. My house doesn’t have central air, the oven is not turning on. In other news, I recently made sourdough naan in a frying pan...

Also don’t worry about the 100 pounds figure for sourdough starter. That is surely the amount for left on the counter daily fed sourdough. Once week…

Ooh that sounds like another delicious alternative to the sauce of the buffalo...!

I personally don’t like “buffalo” sauce in any form but I’ve had the Indian equivalent of this before (Gobi 65, I guess the 65 refers to a famous hot spicy seasoning mix?) and loooooove it.

My theory is that they have a first gen PS3 in there powering the chicken chamber.