Chocolate Mayo Cookies

Yes: mayonnaise is in these. Don’t use light or flavored or anything like that. This originally was on Food Network’s site but I made few tweaks as I wanted a smaller cookie and prefer to work in weights instead of volumes....

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...

Vertical Roaster

I recently wanted to make a couple of game hens and wanted to cook them vertically. So I found these Spanek Vertical Roasters from Spanek Industries here in California. No idea what the real estate thing is about. Since I was cooking game hens — also known as Cornish...

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...

Loaflet, Take Two

Found this cute little 10oz Dutch Oven awhile back at some discount store (Marshall’s, Ross, etc.). So I decided to make a little loaf of sourdough. 10g starter, 40g water, 70g flour, 2g salt. Next time I’ll up the water and reduce the flour to get around 66%, but...