It was easy to identify the most annoying thing in the kitchen. There was a perfect spot in the cabinet above the stove for the flour, but no room anywhere for the sugar. Every time I needed even a teaspoon of sugar, I had to go to the Ivar shelving unit in the dining room […]
I wasn’t sure about buckwheat pancakes. But I was making pancakes for dinner, and I was out of frozen wild blueberries for our usual blueberry pancakes. There was some Bob’s Red Mill buckwheat flour in the freezer, so I decided to give it a shot, substituting half buckwheat flour for all-purpose. I made some sausage […]
Bad news from Trader Joe’s. The cornmeal pizza dough, the star of the second post ever on R&G, has been discontinued. This dough was the basis for one of the most delicious pizzas I know: bacon and pickled jalapeño. We ate it at least twice a month during the cornmeal dough’s brief life. Now I’m going […]
Laurie: When I was a kid, on my birthday, I could choose anything I wanted for dinner. Iris: You mean like pancakes? Laurie: Yes. If you could choose anything you wanted for dinner on your birthday, what would it be? Iris: Pancakes.
New York banned trans fats. I was telling my friend Dan that I thought this was cool. He said, “Hey, aren’t you the guy who said that when someone is in favor of banning something, it always turns out that he is secretly doing that thing himself?” Presumably I said this as the Foley scandal […]