Here's how:

I hope you’re well and that you’re busy depression-proofing yourself too.

If not? Buy a bottle of red wine, turn on the music loud and cook the New Brunswick Stew from this book.

Make sure to drink at least 5/8th of the bottle of wine while cooking.

That’s the best cure for the blues I know.

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I don't know what arcane rituals Ben & Jerry's perform to decide which flavors get to be keepers and which will be just seasonal experiments, but fire up your incense and sacrifice your virgins, people, because we've got to do whatever it takes to keep this one around.  It's coffee liqueur ice cream with a chocolate cookie crumb swirl and bits of ( Read more... )

My respect and gratitude go out to Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen. He died today, but his invention remains in my heart forever (probably literally). As what the NYT article kindly refers to as a "kitchen-resistant" person, I've used ramen noodles as a staple of my diet for my entire adult life. Though I always throw away the ( Read more... )