We've all been there, right? You've just hit a restaurant where the food was, say, one cut above Purina-grade chow. You have no interest in taking the leftovers home, but you don't want to appear rude (or wasteful), either, so you agree to box the crappy meal to go. Then you toss it into the [...]
All-in-One Thanksgiving Leftover Pie! from thegreenhead on Vimeo. Alton Morris' "Day After Thanksgiving Pie" is either a brilliant use of leftovers or the gastronomic equivalent of those junior high school dares. You know the ones: Stir all your drab cafeteria food into one chunky, liquidy, colorless mass and dare someone to eat it for $1.
As we noted before, a classic, old-fashioned ball shot is always good for a cheap laugh. It seems some bloggers, though, just don't dig on cheap laughs, or at least cheap laughs below the belt, like Lemmonex over at Culinary Couture, who published a photo of two big homemade matzo balls, about the size of [...]
Every time we cook at home, our beagle, Coltrane, lurks nearby, hoping something—a scrap of bacon, a shard of shallot—will fall to the linoleum, one of the many surfaces in the house that has learned to submit to the tender ministrations of his tongue. If we could figure out a way to soap the beagle's [...]
