I have a rule about thrifting that I break constantly: don’t buy it unless you have a place for it. Reader, I don’t have a place for a purple candy dish. I bought the purple candy dish anyway. Let me walk y’all through the damage. Here’s a thing folks don’t always know about me: I…
A spicier, garlicky zucchini gratin adapted from Ina Garten, baked in individual ramekins until heaped and bubbling. More garlic, less butter, big flavor.
Food blogging in a two-cat house means feline quality control. Finn inspected the chili crisp, put his nose in the lens, and tail-bombed the hero shot.
Kevin Espiritu toured the new Obama Presidential Center’s edible gardens with President Obama. On the Eleanor Roosevelt garden, Victory Gardens, and a little hope.
Crispy Kamado drumsticks, a dozen at a time on a hanging rack: a two-zone Divide and Conquer fire, a good rub, and dark meat pulled at just the right temp.
The ICE killings we keep excusing, taken apart name by name, and why a food blog is the place to do it: the hands that feed us are the hands being hunted.
Friday Roundup #34: National Avocado Day, a jumbotron birthday for Zach, Joro spiders in the garden, Olmsted’s Southern journeys, and a meh on The Odyssey.
Photos from nine days on the coast of Maine: Boston oysters, a fogged-in lighthouse in Lubec, Acadia at dusk, and the deck where we did nothing.
Homemade chili crisp adapted from Ian Fujimoto: a big-batch chili oil loaded with crispy garlic and shallot. Cheaper than the jar, and better on eggs.
I cook on my Kamado Joe at least four or five times a month, every month, all year. Rain, cold, a Georgia summer that could poach an egg on the deck rail; doesn’t matter. Steaks, burgers, pizza, pulled pork, whole chickens, my annual Hatch chile roasting, and a brisket I’m still chasing after all these…
Friday Roundup #33: a curious creek-walk doe, our tattoo consults, a great dinner at Noosh, brussels sprouts sprouting, and a Duma Key reread.
Three months in on Instant Hydration, the electrolyte powder we actually like: less sweet than the grocery stuff, real flavor, and not an affiliate link.
