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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
ditto to smitten and orangette! PWC knows what's up too!
Your Clever SE Name
When I was little my dad's best friend, Ralphie, was our default "uncle." Every Christmas and birthday he gave us picture books (usually Chris Van Allsburg) inscribed with our nicknames that he had made up. My older brother was Dickie Dickins, my older sister, Little Miss Dickens and me, the chunky monkey baby was dubbed Porky Dickens.
When I decided I wanted to start a blog as a creative outlet/ place to gush about food, on a whim "porky dickens" was the first name I tried. It was available, so now it's here to stay. I like it because it's silly, it's nostalgic and it's food related.
The Cookie Diet: Plain Kooky or Just Kooky Enough?
Yeah this is bogus. You're going to eat weird expanding-in-stomach-cookies for the rest of your whole entire life? Or just give them up and gain it back? Do weight watchers. It works.
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A Pizza-Eating Feat for the Ages
This man is a hero to us all.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
ditto to smitten and orangette! PWC knows what's up too!
Your Clever SE Name
When I was little my dad's best friend, Ralphie, was our default "uncle." Every Christmas and birthday he gave us picture books (usually Chris Van Allsburg) inscribed with our nicknames that he had made up. My older brother was Dickie Dickins, my older sister, Little Miss Dickens and me, the chunky monkey baby was dubbed Porky Dickens.
When I decided I wanted to start a blog as a creative outlet/ place to gush about food, on a whim "porky dickens" was the first name I tried. It was available, so now it's here to stay. I like it because it's silly, it's nostalgic and it's food related.
The Cookie Diet: Plain Kooky or Just Kooky Enough?
Yeah this is bogus. You're going to eat weird expanding-in-stomach-cookies for the rest of your whole entire life? Or just give them up and gain it back? Do weight watchers. It works.
Arthur Avenue - Where to eat dinner?
Lived there for four years. Every time I'm in New York we roll through for snacks on the way home! My favorites: Pasquale Rigolettos, Domenicks (which FYI, is family style and has no menu). If you're looking to pick up a pizza go to Full Moon or if you want to get some excellent Italian groceries and the Market is closed, go to Tino's. Right next to the Chase Bank. I looove.
sweet breakfast strata in a crockpot?
eh, be careful what you do in a crockpot. It can come out really sickening if it's the wrong kind of food to be slow cooked. I would bring muffins and be done with it.
Nice Kitchen, Pioneer Woman
Love her. Love the ranch. Want to go. When Deb from Smitten Kitchen visited her ranch and they gave cooking classes together my mind almost exploded with blogger girl crush! If you guys want me to come over next time I totally will!
Perfect cocktail for a BLT?
This month's Food and Wine had an article asking just this question. ie: what is the "bacon" of wine. Or rather, what wine goes with bacon. I think the answer was a merlot but it's Friday afternoon and I can't be counted on for accuracies. Check out the issue. It's in there.
'No Impact Man,' First a Blog, Now a Movie and Book
Wait, how did he blog without electricity? Too extreme. Makes being a conscious eater/consumer look like a whole lotta crazy. We need to take steps every day to lesson our footprints, but I don't think chucking our fridges, and quality of life, is the way to get this sort of movement as widespread as it needs to be.
Cheap and low maintenance for a crowd
I heart you guys for all your responses. I decided to go with baked mac and cheese (thank you, pioneer woman), a nice fresh salad and pork tenderloins with onion jam (from the kitchn), and a big skillet corn bread. I'm going to make ahead the corn bread and jam as well as prep everything tonight. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to make the mac n cheese and simply refrigerate it for an hour or two before baking (this is okay, right?) and then while everybody is snacking on appetizers, I'm going to quickly pan sear and then bake my pork. The macaroni and the pork both cook on 350 so it works out awesome and everything else will be ready. Cake- purchased. I'm not a masochist!
Hangry Should Be a Word
Yeah hangry is old news. And it's absolutely perfect to describe girlfriends like me when my blood sugar drops too low.
You truly do get what you pay for
I'll pay more for meat, chicken, pork or fish. Trader Joes is good for cheap but good cheeses.
When Is It Socially Acceptable to Share Food?
I actually get secretly mad at fellow diners when they order repeat dishes. I have successfully turned both my best friend and my boyfriend into avid meal sharers. It's SO much better.
Nduja ideas?
yum I want that stuff. What about instead of sauce on a pizza. Would that be too much?
Where to eat/farmers markets in Malden, MA?
If you plan on grilling at home at all, don't miss Dom's Sausage Company in Malden. They make their own sausages and they are seriously to die for. Also, where Dom's is located there is a great, inexpensive produce super store and also a large Super 88 market (hard to find Asian foods).
If you want to go out in Cambridge, it is close by. Also it's restaurant week here, so maybe planning a trip into the city to try a fancy restaurant at a cheaper pre fixe price is a good idea. I recommend Rialto at the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square.
Do You Eat or Email First?
Lord help me if the day ever comes when I feel the need to check email before I do anything else. I'd say that's like the first thing I do when I start my work day, but working comes after all important things like snoozing, stretching, urination, hydration, coffee brewing/drinking, breakfast eating, lunch making and packing, outfit picking out and putting on, makeup applying, teeth brushing and driving to work.
What one food mag should I get?
Between me and my moms, we read every single one, every single month. Bon Appetit is the standout. You will cook more of their recipes then say, Gourmet or Saveur (which are both great in their own way) and Cook's Illustrated only has, like, 5 recipes and is bi-monthly AND is more expensive then the rest. The only thing that bothers us lately about BA is that they tend to use these hipster models that don't really look like they eat much of anything. The food alone though is great, every month I read it from cover to cover and mark loads of good recipes, some of which can be followed strictly or just used for inspiration and interpreted in your own way, depending on what kind of cook you are.
The 'Veggie Reeltor,' a Broker for Vegetarians in the Bay Area
well it looks like the vegetarian reel-tor is getting just what he wants- attention.
Omitting Soda Pop
I like a soda every once in a while. But soda water/seltzer whatever you want to call it, I love. Sometimes you just need bubbles.
5 dozen eggs in the house
make some quiches and freeze them
Wedding gift ideas-Foodie up to 100 bucks
ditto to cookbook. A really good basic one. Bittman's How to Cook Everything is nice and my friends who have Giada books love her stuff.
Things they don't know they need that they really need: a good knife, a salad spinner, a big kid cutting board.
What are you? Recipe Follower or Recipe Deviant
deviant. Can't even follow it the first time.
Tasting Starbucks 'New and Improved' Items
I'm glad that the 'bucks is attempting to get a little healthier. But I would put money on the fact that the calorie content of absolutely everything is still totally outrageous. If you're attempting to watch what you eat and drink- go online, check out the cals for Starbucks' drinks and snacks and prepare to be blown away. The amount of calories and fat in a piece of their coffee cake is comparable to a burger from McDonalds.
Paying for someone else's party?
I do think it's a little odd. But maybe your friend's parents or whomever are throwing the party can't afford to do so themselves and need help. Even though the whole thing is a bit weird if it's a good friend of yours, I don't think 40 dollars for a couple is all that outrageous. I think that you would be hard pressed to find any place you could go for food and drinks on a Saturday night where you wouldn't spend well over that. Some times you just have to shrug it off and go support your friend. Especially if they aren't the one making the arrangements. Plus, I know I would feel pretty ridiculous missing out on a friend's party because I was "offended" at how the party was thrown. It's odd but it's not the end of the world to ask people for dough.
Serious Green: Plastic-Less Ways to Transport Your Lunch
I have an existing fork, knife, salt and pepper in my desk drawer. I bring my lunch in a tupperware (usually a container from take out that I wash to reuse), in a cloth bag. I pack homemade salad dressing in a teensy glass jar that was originally a hotel jam jar (you know like the kind with room service). I still use the plastic tupperware containers, but I wash and reuse, so that's not bad, right?
A Pizza-Eating Feat for the Ages
I just discovered that Scharoff's feat is not unprecedented. Matt McClellan, owner of Tour de Pizza in Tampa, went a month earlier this year eating nothing but pizza. He was motivated to the challenge by a desire to show that pizza isn't actually that bad for you. His results were shocking: eating nothing but pizza for 30 days, McClellan lost over 20 pounds! Read all about his month in this article from the St. Petersburg Times.
A Pizza-Eating Feat for the Ages
Hate to be a nay sayer, but was he under surveillance late at night?...perhaps he grabbed a thumb full of peanut butter or wolfed down a quick breakfast burrito.
I guess most flavor profiles could be attained through "the other toppings" he was allowed to eat. He could technically throw a steak or some chicken breast on there, or any salad.
Either way...if he really did pull it off, i give him credit.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Hard to choose. I started out in food blog land with I Was Just Hungry.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
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Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Divine Caroline is one of my favs
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats & Chocolate & Zucchini.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats and The Wicked Noodle. Looks like a lot of people like Smitten Kitchen, so I'm going to have to check that out!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
I like Serious Eats of course. I also like Smitten Kitchen.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
My favorite food blogs are this one and Culinate.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats is my favorite. Simply Recipes is my second favorite.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Baking Bites and Simply Recipes. I want to cook and eat pretty much everything from these sites!!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
I love so many sites. I love Serious Eats (of course), PW's and any cake blog. I have a major sweet tooth.
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
A year of slow cooking!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Simply Recipes!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Simply Recipes!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Besides Serious Eats, I go to PWC and Chow
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Pioneer Woman Cooks is one I go to all the time.. love the step by step pictures and delicious home cooked meals :)
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Pioneer Woman Cooks is one I go to all the time.. love the step by step pictures and delicious home cooked meals :)
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/ is one of my favorites (along with SE, of course!) - her entire blog receives several visits a day from me as I check to see if there is anything new - I discovered this delightful site this summer - I've tried several of her recipes, and am smitten - I'd really love to win her cookbook!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
Serious Eats has been my go to site for a long time...consistent quality, informed contributors, great topics. What's not to love!
Cook the Book: 'The Pioneer Woman Cooks'
PWC is my favorite. A second would be Bakerella.
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Favorite foods: avocados, prosciutto, cheese n crackers, fried chicken, pizza, poached eggs, meatballs, spinach, greens, tamari almonds, corn on the cob, ripe tomatoes, sweet potato fries, coffee ice cream with jimmies...everything but coleslaw.
Last bite on earth: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes or perfectly cooked fries. With an ear of local corn and a refreshing adult beverage. Followed by a Reese's peanut butter egg, because for some reason the seasonal shapes of Reese's are far superior to regular ones.

This man is a hero to us all.