Hoover just asked me for salsa-making advice, and my TL;DR version would be this: Don’t get fancy. You don’t know better than Mexican grandmas. But the long version: Yes. Get all the seedy flesh out of the tomatoes, or your salsa will be a drink. And add the salt last, because it draws even more … Read more
Here’s what I’m making today: my mom’s recipe for these delicious, candy-like cookies that coagulate into sort of chocolate’s birds’ nests. They’re called Kindergarten Kookies because she used to send them into school on our birthdays. KINDERGARTEN KOOKIES In a mixing bowl: 3 cups oats 1/2 cup cocoa OR 1 square unsweetened chocolate 1 cup … Read more
So you didn’t get an actual sequential HEIST update today, but you took it patiently like a good sport. By way of consolation, enjoy my new topic entry over at CRACKED: How to Barbecue Like a Real Man Firk, I was born to write that one. I hope you like the subtle allusion to Alan … Read more
My cousin has a food blog for all of you who dig the recipes here. I’m jealous of the titular pun and eager to try some of it out. There’s really no better way to spend a Sunday than making a big dinner with the one you love.
This is the recipe for my dear aul’ sainted mother’s Irish soda bread, as told to her by her Wexfordian grandma, as told to me, as told to you. I don’t recommend you make it! I’m not even sure it’s “our” recipe or just something they pulled off of a bag of flour from the … Read more
