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cheap eats
Describe your 2025 in food. This blog rebooted with a theme on January 1, 2021: food. Also adventure, cast iron, the outdoors and simple living. It was the middle of freaking covid and I was basically trapped in my house because of travel restrictions and winter and work from home and I latched onto the
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searching for theatre style
Salt, oil and popping corn. Can you imagine how many iterations and combinations of that trio I’ve gone through over the years in search of the perfect pop-at-home theatre-style popcorn? I lost count long ago. I’ll try not to bury the lede here. Theatre Style Popcorn 2 tablespoons of beta carotene infused coconut oil2 teaspoons
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six years of sourdough
Well, I have just spent the last few days working on the migration of a bunch of old blog content and… I apologize. if you clicked on this expecting a more “bready” opening paragraph, well, sorry. Nerdy things beget nerdy things, and sourdough bread and blogging are both pretty nerdy things walking hand-in-hand through this
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cacio e pepe
A little over a year ago we were wandering the streets of Rome in the blazing heat of an August scorcher. It’s a far cry from where I am sitting writing these words in a suburban strip mall Starbucks as the first flakes of snow for the season fall outside the window. It was hardly
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the great pasta kerfuffle
I alluded to this in my most recent post on brand loyalty: the great spaghetti sauce change up of 2024 and the “kerfuffle that caused” in our house. First of all, we’re not Italian. So when I write about “spaghetti sauce” I need to be exceptionally clear that we are basically talking about the red