Until my adulthood, I always just thought of rum as something fictional pirates sang about in cartoons. Looking into it now, I know how nuanced the flavor profiles can be for the spirit, which is distilled from sugar cane syrup or juice or from molasses, which is what is leftover when you process sugar cane. …
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Since 2022, there has been a regular threat of a sriracha shortage by the main producer of the red chili sauce, Huy Fong Foods. One was thanks to a Mexican drought. Another was because of supplier issues. And yet another was blamed on the peppers being “too green,” CBS News reported. I have to admit …
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In what I know is not an overly popular opinion, I must confess that I’m not a big fan of lemon being the star flavor in a savory dish. I don’t mind some lemon pepper, along with other seasonings, on some spicy pretzels, and if we’re talking dessert, I’m all about a lemon bar, lemon …
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I have to confess that I never heard of a whoopie pie until I was nearly in college. A dear friend of mine from Pennsylvania introduced me to the classic chocolate version, and I was immediately hooked. Her recipe still has a place of honor in my recipe box. According to the Cape Whoopies company …
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This week’s recipe is a redemption story. Well, it’s as much of a redemption story as a cake can have. It had to have been at least eight years ago that I first attempted to make a whole orange cake. I saw it online somewhere and thought the idea of dropping whole oranges into a …
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In looking up ideas for summer snacks in anticipation of a recent get-together, I realized I have completely missed trying out one of my favorite items to see on a snack table: tortilla rollups. If you want to go on a deep dive of about a million versions of the classic snack, just Google it …
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I married into a seafood-loving family. Apparently it’s weird that I am not nearly as excited about eating non-fried fish as the rest of them are. I maintain that it’s perfectly logical for a lifelong Kansan to want everything with gills to be dropped into a vat of oil and fried to a crisp. My …
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Often, when I try a recipe I’ve never heard of, I love to jump into its history. I was especially interested in marlow, an ice-cream-like dessert that was wildly popular for decades but fell out of favor sometime during the 1960s, when people had access to electric ice cream makers at home and no longer …
I got a bit overzealous about fresh peaches back in June. It was hot. It felt fully like summer, and when I saw a bag of them at the grocery store, I snapped them up. And they were, well, fine. I mean, they were juicy and fresh, but they lacked a lot of flavor. It …
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I have long written about how much I love to buy a random ingredient at the grocery store (especially one that’s on sale) and figure out how to use it. But I don’t think I’ve outed Joey as being the same way—except with spices and sauces. I can’t even count the number of times we …
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