I can’t choose between all the obscure McHenry County geographical references I want to bat back your way. Suffice to say I’m very excited about this.  Read more

Yeah, I’m down with whatever. I’ll even take it cut into a non-Euclidean shape that drives the weak-minded to cosmic madness. Read more

The recipe differences are little things — the crust is a little more outright crackerish, the sauce is heavy on tomato paste and dried herbs, and so on. The main thing is the cut, which seems to either enrage and delight people.  Read more

I know Kraft Singles have sodium citrate already — I think Wiz has a different stabilizer. Read more

I missed the picture. That’s awesome! I guess I only had it when it was the little notebooks.  Read more

I loved how every ancillary Nintendo product from back then was referred to as a “system.” I was obsessed with Nintendo and still thought that one tasted kinda gross though.  Read more

I would respectfully disagree, but I won’t because I don’t want to be pitied.  Read more

I think they were little notebooks? I had like fifty of them. Casette tapes would have been amazing. Read more

This reminds me of the greatest cereal of my (or any) time

Excellent  Read more

Blend some Adobo sauce with some fresh mango or pineapple. Rock it out and let me know how it goes.  Read more

I hear you. This sauce is basically a low salt version of my usual one, but low sodium Spam makes a lot of sense too. Read more

Do it!  Read more

You should write a food blog and then Allison can throw weird backhanded compliments into it. It’ll be a whole passive-aggressive recipe exchange. Read more

You can’t walk away from fries. You can’t eat nachos while driving. And yet. Also you’re really going to be disappointed on the ingredient count when you look up what’s in your favorite fast foods.  Read more

Introducing a croissant seemed incredibly grand, but you’re not wrong about the ascendancy of Portillo’s.  Read more

I’ll have you know that ALL of my recipes are to the gold standard. Read more

We are all too extra in the kitchen sometimes. EMBRACE IT. Plus, hey, what if I told of a cheap jar of paste that is even BETTER than boullion?  Read more

I mean, if you like marshland and canals, South Deering is basically Disney. Seriously, though -- if you’re ever back there with a car, promise me you’ll hit Calumet Fisheries.  Read more

Honestly, between saffon and celery salt, I’d probably use ONE of those things a lot and the other one twice.  Read more