Now that my workout is done and while I drip dry a bit before showering the grime off and then getting the turkey I spatchcocked and wet rubbed last night in the oven, and since we could use a new open thread, I figured I’d regale you all with the story behind the cornbread stuffing …
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Thanksgiving Menu: Spatchcock Turkey With Bourbon and Maple Syrup
My favorite holiday has come around again. I am afraid nothing new or exciting this season, it’s been a rough year and this month especially. But cooking always makes me feel better, so traditional Thanksgiving is on the menu this week. This year I’m going to post the Thanksgiving menu and provide links to each …
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Food-Engineering Pr0n
This has been making the rounds, and I wanted to share it with you all. It’s so incredibly satisfying to watch: How the spicy soup base of Chinese hot pot is made? pic.twitter.com/fWuTZGo4VC — Tong Bingxue 仝冰雪 (@tongbingxue) November 7, 2021 In the immortal words of Liz Lemon, I want to go to there. Can …
Sense of Taste
Before I get 100 comments to tell me to get a covid test, I am not losing my sense of taste, but I do want to talk about it for a bit. One weird thing that I have always experienced is how things taste like other things for me. For example, a latte basically tastes …
Saturday Evening Open Thread: Specialty Foods
When your colleague @antontroian comes back from Russia’s East coast with bountiful new chocolate flavors for curious palates! Sea urchin + kelp, seaweed (“sea cabbage”) and scallop! Which one should I choose?! And do they make oyster?? flavor as well????????????? pic.twitter.com/GucnCSyJKb — Valerie Hopkins (@VALERIEin140) October 5, 2021 Ever look at an edible creation and …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Snack Time!
“LUNCH KEBABS WITH MORTADELLA, ARTICHOKE AND SUN-DRIED TOMATOES” Has the person who made this list ever met a child? — Sophie Beach (@sophie_beach) September 21, 2021 It’s an aspirational article, I guess — My young Twyla and Gawain not only appreciate mortadella, but can tell the quality imported stuff from the mere local supermarket variety! …
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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Diversion
1. Spices and Meat Surprisingly, flawed opinions persist about the use of spices in Early Modern Europe. Apparently it was to cover the smell of rotting flesh or to compensate for poor quality meat. I read two instances recently. pic.twitter.com/103oJ9gjbG — Krishnendu Ray (@Raykris1) August 25, 2021 Everything in the news sucks, and some gremlin …
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