Omsom sells sets of vegan Asian sauces. My husband loves the bulgogi sauce with impossible meat, garlic rice and kimchi. I love the larb, though he isn’t a fan. But it’s a nice gift set for people who want to easily experiment with various flavors from all across Asia. Recipe cards are included and prices are…

My husband has gotten so much better over the years. Now when I serve certain Asian foods, he doesn’t look askance at all when I place chopsticks on the table. He’s off and running. A far cry from when we first started eating sushi. The waitress playfully brought him a pair of chopsticks that had a small piece of…

They are still called mud bugs. My entire family loves them, but I remain underwhelmed. Too much work for very little payoff, and all the little legs and and bits kind of creep me out (and I’m not easily creeped out). 

I love candles too! I like how they can subtly scent a room even if they aren’t lit. Plus, when your candle gets sad and done you can clean the  wick and then place the container in your sock drawer or underwear drawer or sweater drawer and your clothes will smell nice. It’s a good way to get the most out of the…

I like the idea of a smaller burger. Like the size you’d get in a kids meal. I can’t eat a whole lot of fast food, so it’s a treat for me and I’d like to get fries too if I’m splurging. But if I order a big Impossible burger, I can’t order the fries and I still end up not being able to eat the whole thing. I also…

If you live near an Asian market, their rice flour is quite inexpensive. I use it to make banh xeo and tempura. I’m sure you know that soy sauce has gluten, but Golden Mountain Sauce (Asian market) and tamari do not. Also, P.A.N. from the International aisle at your grocery is great for arepas and for breading fish or…

I know someone with celiac. It’s no joke. I’m sorry you’re dealing with that.

I would love a drive thru falafel place and a drive-thru banh mi place. They are SANDWICHES! How hard can it be? That’s what fast food places do! But no...as you say, every place has to go with a fried chicken sandwich you can get just about anywhere. The good salad is a great idea too. (We had the best salad ever…

For me: nothing is essential. I don’t save foods we love (Southern cornbread dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy, baked sweet potatoes, smokey mustard greens) for just one day per year. I make those dishes whenever I want to eat them, and none are difficult to make. So why not? That takes the pressure off THE DAY. It…

I don’t mean “mushy” green beans - I mean throughly cooked. We are mostly vegetarian for over 20 years, so I know how to cook vegetables. It’s just that with fresh green beans in certain preparations, the green beans need to be more like the texture of canned green beans. Shouldn’t be falling apart into mush. Glad…

Wonderful suggestions! Whatever you do - please cook the shit out of your green beans. They need to be really soft. Otherwise nothing else works. You’re just tossing your medium cooked beans in a weird (albeit tasty) goop. I’m also a fan of stewed Southern green beans and tomatoes. Again, the green beans need to be…

I am so fucking mad right now. How do white folks keep getting away with this? (I mean I know institutionalized racism.) But still, THIS? Video and everything? Fuck! He can join Zimmerman, the Affluenza Kid, the Dumpster “Proming Future” Rapist and Casey Anthony in the circle of hell that I hope exists.

My daughter had them twice. No one else in our family got them. I did the treatment, put in a video and went to nit picking. (Yep...I’m a picker!) For the next week, I washed her hair daily, used a hair dryer on highest setting, followed by a straightening iron. It really wasn’t that big of a deal. I just think of…

Why not just make a chicken? Back when we ate meat, I made an excellent roasted chicken, better than any turkey I’ve ever tasted. I hate the idea of food for the sake of tradition. That’s how we ended up with the “pink salad” on our table for 30 years.

I believe you. I love potatoes in any form. Never had BAD potatoes, even the flakes. Because I don’t cook meat at home, I generally go for the whole potatoes when I cook them - usually as a main (baked potatoes with veggie chili and cheese on top, mixed sweet and yukon gold potato gratin with a big green salad, etc.)…

Or potatoes au gratin. Cheese AND potatoes! 

In the South it’s cornbread dressing...and it’s not stuffed into a turkey. I like “stuffing” but we never really at that at holidays, so I never made a connection between stuffing and Thanksgiving. I make the cornbread two days in advance. Normally I don’t mind a littl sweetness in my cornbread, but Thanksgiving…

I could ditch anything but the cornbread dressing. But the mashed potatoes are (to me) not really a special occasion dish. We enjoy them all the time. In our house, at least twice a month in various forms. When I’ve eaten the other dishes, it’s only been at the holidays. 

I agree...except we can’t actually binge. I wish they’d just release the whole damn series. This is the AGE of binge. It’s hard to go back to the dribble release and expect to maintain interest, especially when in the end any aclaim won’t be harmed by flooding every episode at once. I expect that by the time the seaon…

This looks WONDERFUL! Our Thanksgiving menu is going to be pickled shrimp, raw oysters and hushpuppies with pepper jelly compound butter, for appetizers. Main could be this crostata with a beet, grapefruit, red onion, fennel and goat cheese salad. I don’t eat land animals - so daughter and SIL will be bringing a small…