Let’s talk about tortilla chips. I can and will eat them all. When the dude comes around at the Mexican restaurant with the fresh bowl of them, I have been known to lunge wildly toward him.
All these chips are belong to me.
So toasty. So crispy. So good for shoveling tasty dips into my mouth. Want to make them yourself? Oh, you can. You can and you should.
Hometown hero.
For the humans watching at home, the Derby is a marathon, not a sprint (not for the horses. For the horses, it’s over almost as soon as it starts). You need to have sustenance throughout the long day of standing around wearing a big hat and frittering away money on games of chance, so don’t be foolish: plan ahead and make some tasty treats for yourself. One of the snacks I’m sharing with you today is a Southern delicacy, and the other is a Louisville original. Pimento cheese and Benedictine are both great snack spreads that are good on crackers/white bread and are just two or three bites max. You’re going to be very, very busy, as I said, daydrinking and gambling, so you don’t want your hands to be occupied with something as silly as foodstuffs. Hands are for juleps. Continue reading
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Tagged DIY, hometown, kentucky derby, party, recipes, snacks
This summer, I spent some time in Iceland. I gave you all the notes for that trip on Monday, but I got to thinking about the hostel I stayed in there, and, well, it is fantasy status. Let’s review, shall we?
Right, Kex is cooler than your house.
I thought,” you know? This has been a good week. I love y’all a ton. Y’all deserve TWO snack recipes. Y’all deserve my poptart recipe.”
Get in my mouth, heavenly beings.
In grad school, there was this amazing bakery that had homemade poptarts sometimes, and whoa, were they good. I would buy all of them when they made those. When I moved away, I just figured out what to do. You can make any kind of poptart your little heart desires. Look after the jump for the starting point.
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Tagged childhood, dessert, DIY, nostalgia, nutella, poptarts, recipe, recipe hack, snacks, tasty taste
I love love love popcorn (shut it, haters), and I feel like it’s having a major moment recently. I’ve been seeing it at fancy restaurants, so I hacked their versions to bring you these:
From left to right: tea kettle corn, parmesan rosemary truffle popcorn, preparedness popcorn, and duck fat popcorn.
All these recipes assume you know how to make popcorn already. Let me remind you in case you forgot. Get a big stock pot out, and pour just enough of a neutral oil (I like canola) to cover the bottom of the pan. Put three kernels in the oil and place all that over a burner on medium heat. When the first kernel pops, pull this off the burner and pour just enough popcorn into the bottom to exactly cover the base of the pan. Put a tight-fitting lid on top, and keep it off the burner for 30 seconds. Put it back on the burner, and stay close by. It’ll pop pretty quickly. When you have more than 3 seconds between pops, take it off the burner, remove the lid, and do what you see fit. Use what you reap in these recipes.
This is a fail-safe popcorn-makin’ scheme, so rest easy.
Recipes after the jump!
Posted in Food and Drink, Uncategorized
Tagged DIY, duck fat, girl scout cookies, popcorn, savory, snacks, sweets, trendy
You should know by now that Cool Whip is something that grosses me out. Come on, it HAS to gross you out, too. Right? Right. When I was a kid, we had this fancy whipped cream maker, so I thought making whipped cream was this HUGE undertaking that required specialized equipment. I was incorrect. Here’s what you need:
BOOM.
Well, that and like, two other tiny things you definitely already have.
[Ed. Note: I accidentally scheduled this for the wrong day! It was supposed to be an accompaniment to this post. Mea culpa.]
I was over on Fab the other morning, and they had this pretty slate cheese board for sale, marked down to $20 (originally $30).
Look how fancy!
What a nice housewarming gift! Except that that took less than 1 minute to make, and well under a dollar. Continue reading
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