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...
Tipping Culture
This is not about leaning. First of all, let me say that I’m pro-tipping. I tip 20-25% because, frankly, most service workers are screwed by their employers, even more so in states that allow them to screw them even more. (In California the minimum-wage laws apply to everyone; in...
Metric
USA: (Beating chest.) We’re the USA — we can do anything! The World: Metric. USA: Oh, not that — that’s hard. As a US citizen, the above is embarrassing. We made a half-hearted attempt at metric in the 70s and then just gave up. I went to Australia in...