Episode 250: Beans, Fried Rice, and Cooking While Depressed

We love a dried bean.

In food news this week, we learn that Cooking Light magazine as we know it is no more 🙁

In What’s for Dinner this week, we’re making beans.

In our How’d You Make that Segment, we present a fried rice method.

We discussed the issue of making and eating dinner when you are just plain depressed.

And finally, in What We’re Loving, we discuss Philly Bread’s take on the English Muffin.

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Episode 249: Stuffed Eggplant, Poached Eggs, and Test Kitchen Inventory

Eggs, ready for poaching

In food news this week, the BBC covers the a recent controversy over Jamie Oliver’s recipe over “Jerk Rice”

What’s for dinner? Joy is revisiting The Indian Family Kitchen, a cookbook we first discussed in episode 135.

In How’d You Make That, we return to the topic of poached eggs. (We wanted to share that poached egg video with you, but we couldn’t find it. Here are other videos in that series.)

We talk about our process for managing test kitchen inventory, especially the many, many jars that result from Marisa’s “Food in Jars” kitchen.

In What We’re Loving this week, we sing the praises of the humble but wonderful BLT.

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Episode 248: No-cook pasta sauces, Fajita Vegetables, and Crying in H Mart

In food news this week, are those ugly produce subscription boxes really what they appear to be? At least one small farm thinks not.

In our What’s for Dinner segment, we talk about no-cook pasta sauces.

In our How’d you Make that segment, we’ve got fajita vegetables for you.

We shared our reactions and feelings about the recent New Yorker essay Crying in H Mart.

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