Make Hot Honey With Just Three Ingredients
Hot honey is a condiment with staying power. Popularized by brands like Mike’s and Trader Joe’s years ago, this tangy, sweet, and spicy sauce brings the zing to fried chicken, grilled meats, roasted vegetables, pizza, biscuits, and cheese plates. It may seem too delicious to DIY, but don’t let Dave fool you—hot honey is one…
Everything You Need to Make Your Own Cheese
While you really don’t need a special location or kitchen to make cheese, you will need some equipment—and, most importantly, a deep appreciation for cleanliness. I thought I knew about sterilization from my many years of canning, preserving, and fermenting, but I was in no way prepared for how diligent you must be when making…
Bake Your Overripe Peaches Into This Crisp
Peaches are my favorite fruit. When they’re perfectly ripe, nothing can compare to their soft, juicy texture, and irresistible balance of sweet and tart. So you understand why it’s so easy for me to buy them in insurmountable quantities from Trader Joe’s when they’re in season. It’s a compulsion. However, I believe it is one…
The Best Prime Video Original Movies
Though streaming movies remain controversial among cinema’s big thinkers (and money-makers), Amazon has managed a fairly impressive run of films that have broken through not merely in terms of viewership, but in the broader world of movie awards—more than one of the movies listed below has shown up among a given year’s Best Picture Oscar…
Easy Dorm Room Meals You Can Make in a Crappy Kitchen
If I had one wish for college students, it would be that places of higher learning would allow them to keep an Instant Pot in their dorm rooms. But apparently young adults cannot be trusted with heat-generating appliances, and dorm dwellers are often stuck sharing refrigerators and doing most of their cooking in a microwave.…
You Need to Season Your Fake Meat
When it comes to meat substitutes like those made by Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, I’ve noticed people a tendency to think of them as packaged, complete products, like frozen pizza rolls or chicken nuggets. Just cook, eat, et voila, not even the most discerning meat eater can tell they are eating—gasp—an imposter!That’s a two-pronged…
How to Prep, Store, and Cook With Hatch Chile Peppers
Eating at a restaurant in New Mexico usually starts with the choice between red or green chiles, a question for which there is no wrong answer. Red chiles bring the heat, green chiles bring the flavor, and opting for both gives the word “Christmas” a whole new (and utterly delicious) meaning. When it comes to…
Trader Joe’s Falafel Might Contain Rocks, Too
Trader Joe’s did not have a good week: They made headlines for recalling two types of cookies for potentially containing rocks, then insects were found in some of their broccoli cheddar soups, and then Trader Joe’s put out an announcement on Friday warning their customers not to eat their falafels because they might also contain…
These Recalled Trader Joe’s Cookies Might Have Rocks In Them
Photo: jejim (Shutterstock)Trader Joe’s cookies generally rock...but maybe they rock a little too much recently. If you get an extra crunch from eating Trader Joe’s almond cookies, it could be because the popular grocery store chain has put out an announcement recalling two of its cookies for potentially containing rocks. Here’s what you need to know.Which…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Skibidi Toilet?
This week’s Out-of-Touch guide covers a kidnapping that might not have happened, singing heads coming out of toilets, and people eating borax for their health. So make yourself a girl dinner and get comfortable.Viral videos of the week: The Skibidi Toilet seriesMaybe it’s the summer heat frying everyone’s eggs, but YouTube’s hottest videos are “Skibidi…
