How To Make Really Awful Vegetable/Veggie Chips

It’s not like I set out to make things that turn out poorly, I really don’t. And mind you, with as many liberties as I take with some of the things I set out to make, I pretty much expect awful things to get birthed in my kitchen on a pretty regular basis. Still, it [...]

Delightful Potato Latkes

So I recently found myself with an abundance of potatoes that were making their best effort to grow roots in my cabinet. I’m fairly slow at eating potatoes, but am also unable to resist the allure of a 10lb bag of spuds that costs less then a buck. Thus, it became time to add more [...]

The Knish Was Delish And It Made Quite A Dish!

So I recently decided to make knishes, whereupon I vaguely followed this recipe. I say “vaguely” as, whenever something starts going not in an ideal direction when I’m making something, my brain flips into autopilot and I start grabbing random items and flinging them into the recipe until the food more closely resembles the idealized [...]

Magical Food Item #8728937: Fried Plantains

So I’ve had plantains a few times in my life, and have enjoyed them each time I’ve had them, but didn’t really think about them all that much beyond that point. And then, recently, I acquired a plantain. Sometimes items will surreptitiously leap into my basket at the grocery store, and there’s little I can [...]