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"I do not like beans," I said to my husband. "Beans are mushy and overcooked and disgusting and... oh, you mean you can adjust soak time on beans so they're a little al dente? And you can pick different beans? Well why didn't you say so in the first place..."
Read moreOur neighbor served us a fantastic shrimp boil one evening, and we begged for the recipe. Here is how we make it at our house.
Read moreSergey loves crispy cookies. In search of ways to get homemade cookies like that, he found a cookie press that made tiny cookies with lots of ridges. Success! Tiny little crunches of joy.
Read moreOne of many recipes we begged our neighbor for. She is a quintessential Hostess and comes out with delightful cookery and spreads like this.
Read moreOne day, Sergey and I were ravenously hungry and--surprising nobody--we went in search of a recipe that could use more garlic. And this time, we opted, not for more mushroom, but for a more flavorful oil. Pop quiz, what made old-style McDonald's fries the best?
Read moreI was absolutely craving bread. But not fluffy bread, I wanted a nice dense bread to sink my teeth into. I stumbled across this recipe on Tumblr and it was perfect. And then I used this recipe to process election anxieties. I made well over a hundred in that time.
Read moreOne day I was up on a hypomanic swing. And I decided, among other things, that I wanted to pickle my own sandwich toppings. So I went on YouTube and here's the result.
Read moreSnopes' disproved Neiman Marcus costs-a-fortune cookies offered a killer recipe, urban legend or no. It also churns out a metric crapton of cookies in one go, so it became my go-to recipe when I needed party cookies, or office cookies. Heavily modified over the years, of course...
Read moreOne of our oldest recipes, Sergey distilled down what makes a good meatball and... DECIDED THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH GARLIC AND MUSHROOM. Of course. Sensible man, that.
Read moreA family friend developed a lemonade so purely delightful to my tastebuds that I begged her for the recipe. She most graciously passed it on to me, and I present to you the most refreshing drink I've ever had.
Read moreSergey and I have visited Japan, and while there we discovered Melon Bread. It's fluffy as air inside and crispy on the outside. I can't make it as good, but I can make a good sweet bread along those lines with this.
Read moreThis is a pretty basic recipe that was intended to give a little more substance to a meal consisting mostly of the roasted potatoes we developed. I needed to mark down the right proportions somewhere, so...
Read moreMy youngest sister and I played around with this recipe a bit. We found it online, but decided it was not sweet enough. Difficult to tweak without making it too dense, but it cane be done!
Read moreA FAVORITE old family recipe. A lot of this is experimentation, approximation, and “to taste” measuring. Also, Wolff’s Kasha is hard to find in the store. Often found in the "non-American foods" section with matzah, potato pancake mix, borscht, gefilte fish.
Read moreOur neighbor has a sangria to end all sangrias, according to Sergey. I don't like sangrias much myself, but he will swear by this. We haven't tried making the recipe ourselves yet, so it is still in progress!
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