Category: tucking in

  • Short: Pour Over Coffee

    Maybe it was obvious, but those little coffee pods had their moment… and that moment has passed. At least, it has for me… And maybe it’s also obvious, but picking up a cheap little pour over cone (for roughly half the cost of a box of pods) has me making my afternoon cup in a

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  • Strip This Pan, Part One

    My big ol’ twenty inch reversible grill has developed some pitting over the summer and I’ve been contemplating the pros and cons of various methods to strip a pan down to bare metal and start the seasoning process from scratch. 1. A self-cleaning oven on clean mode heats up the pan hot enough to incinerate

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  • Potluck Impossible

    As the sun sets this evening I’ll be partaking in a strange and magical event that has become rare elusive these past eighteen months: a small housewarming party. A dozen or so (fully vaccinated) friends and I are converging on the newest abode of one of them to sit and chat and eat and chat

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  • The Artful Joy of Splitting Sourdough

    A friend of mine killed her starter. Dead. I didn’t ask how. Vacations. Life. A summer heat wave. It happens. So a few days later I just split mine and delivered one half it to her in a plastic pouch. Problem solved, and she could go back to baking loaves. This marks the third time

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  • The Hot Pan of Endless Convenience

    This is not the first time I’ve brought up my mushroom grilling wonder pan on this blog, and it is unlikely to be the last. A summer of backyard grilling and open-flame cooking has done nothing short of cementing my resolve celebrate a years-long (if accidental) effort to season a chunk of generic cast iron

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