Sometimes I get really stuck on certain foods and will eat them for every meal for days, possibly weeks. This flies in the face of my usual reluctance to eat leftovers, but, well, at least it makes things easier. This time, as a grand stroke of irony, it’s kale salad. I know. This is probably […]
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Alternaloaf (or, the “life-changing loaf of bread”)
I’m not eating a gluten-free diet. I think every single previous post to this thing has had a gluten product or 20 in it. I love bread, pasta, and preferably, both. With white rice. And potatoes. And maybe a breadcrumb topping? Glad we got that out of the way. I also like things that aren’t […]
Breakfast burritos (well, tacos) for fun and profit
I didn’t really profit in a monetary sense (though I did in a delicious sense), but who says titles need to make sense? I certainly don’t. Is there a more perfect food? I think probably not. It has all of the delicious things: potatoes, eggs, cheese, and you can eat it all right when you […]
Dumpling some dumplings
There’s nothing like sort of butchering the recipe for elaborately made traditional foods to express my complicated relationship with my ethnicity! JK, I just really like dumplings. Last weekend, I enslaved a number of my friends to fold dumplings for an hour. (I made a huge bowl of filling and bought 252 dumpling skins beforehand.) […]
Marcella Hazan’s Broccoli and Pasta Soup
I almost didn’t post this because my photos of it are so gnarly-looking, but then I had a great revelation: fuck it. I can eat gray soup and talk about it on the Internet if I want to. This soup is like 3,000 times fussier than I usually prefer, by which I mean, you can’t […]