Wilton, IA, 6:52 pm. From Valerie: Mac and cheese and hot dogs with SpongeBob fruit snacks. Random, I know, but delicious. We've always got room for your laptop meals. Share pics at thesporkful@gmail.com. Please include the location and time of the picture, and describe the grub. /mg
When I traveled to Israel recently, I decided to conduct a taste test between the burgers at an Israeli McDonald's and those at Burger Ranch, the main Israeli fast food burger chain, which has been around since 1972. Cheeseburgers are verboten at both establishments, because mixing meat and dairy violates kosher rules. So that's a strike against the burgers across
The egg throwdown continues, as the conversation moves to bacon, ham, Taylor ham, the omelet sandwich, and more. Plus, watch the blog this week for an egg and cheese instructional video, and an ode to the egg sandwich, written to the tune of Peter Paul and Mary's "Lemon Tree." Go to TheSporkful.com to find that and more.
Egg and Cheese Sandwiches Pt. 2 drops tomorrow. As you may recall from Part 1, Mark argued that it was not possible to make a good egg and cheese sandwich with scrambled eggs. Well to prove him wrong, I've put together a video that lays out my patented grilled egg and cheese sandwich technique. The video is coming soon, but
On next week's show I'll talk a bit about my recent trip to Israel, and the culinary highlights of the voyage. Way up on the list was aranygaluska, a desert made by Mrs. Sporkful's 89-year-old grandmother, who comes from the tradition of Hungarian bakers. It's a bunch of munchkin-sized dough balls rolled in butter, sugar, cinnamon, nuts, preserves, and more,
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New York, NY, 2:43 pm. Normally we spotlight laptop meals, but since you've been talking to us about KFC's Double Down, we're sharing this photo from Dan in New York. He couples the Double D with airplane Sauvignon blanc in a quest to "know what abomination tastes like." Which raises the question: if one insists on eating a DD, what's the ideal wine pairing? And