Category: Braindroppings

Experimentation

Someone asked me recently something to the effect of, “So, you look at a recipe, think that could be better, and just try it?” Um…yeah. Some times I’m wrong. Usually I’m not. Maybe not on the recipe, per se, but on explaining a step better. For example, I read...

Restaurant Efficiency

I have no idea where I originally heard this joke, but I told it to a waiter at a restaurant one time. He then proceeded to bring over every other waiter — singly or in pairs — and make me tell them because he claimed he sucked at remembering...

The 12 Days Of Christmas

While not really cooking related, it’s cooking-adjacent. I mean, what else are you gonna do with all of those birds?!? Not sure if anyone knows the real source of this, but if someone does, please let me know. I think I originally read a (cleaner) version of this in...

Cranberry Orange Bread

Sometimes I look up a recipe and the site is so bad it angers me. Okay, that’s most of the time, actually. This time it was particularly bad. I was looking for a cranberry-orange recipe to make in my little loaflet pans. Pictures soon....

Loaflets

So I was at Marshall’s and saw stacks of these little pans, six to a set. Had no idea what I was going to do with them, but I had to have them. I’ve since read about using them for individual meatloaves, banana bread, and cranberry orange bread. But...