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Curried Sausage Buns

by Jillian Bedell February 12, 2013

The first thing you should know about these sausage buns is that they contain zero sausage. No pork whatsoever. Sin salchicha. Totally Kosh. I’m not really sure that they qualify as buns, either. But “beef puff pastry” sounded both gross and overly alliterative. You could refer to them as meat tubes, perhaps even more accurate [...]

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Pimento Cheese

by Malcolm Bedell June 19, 2012

Visit nearly any home in the Southern part of the United States on a weekday afternoon, and it won’t be long before your kindly host breaks out a bowl of pimento cheese. The Southern staple, a simple mix of cheese, mayonnaise, and sweet peppers, is a quick, inexpensive snack to serve to a group of [...]

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Banana Applesauce Muffins

by Jillian Bedell April 11, 2012

I’ve already had four of these muffins today. I don’t know if it’s me – because I’m ravenous all the time – or because these muffins are wonderful. You probably have all the ingredients on hand. Borrow an egg from a neighbor if you’re out. Does anyone do that anymore? It’s such a quaint custom. Mash [...]

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America! Presents: FlatJacks™ Chicken Snacks (Original Flavor)

by Malcolm Bedell March 6, 2012

It’s rare that a product stops me dead in my tracks, when I am taking my near-daily slow stroll down the frozen food aisle of our supermarket. Today, though, tucked away on the bottom shelf, in an area normally reserved for three-for-a-dollar frozen burritos, underneath the chicken nuggets and the pre-packaged buffalo wings, the bright [...]

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Salted Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Crackers

by Malcolm Bedell March 2, 2012

Jillian and I first starting taking road trips together in 1999. At first, we would take our lives in our hands, pushing the beater Toyota Corolla that her parents bought her when she was a teenager to its limits, with short 300 mile journeys from our school in New Haven to my hometown here in [...]

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Superbowl XLVI Snack Roundup

by Malcolm Bedell February 3, 2012

This weekend, let’s honor Sunday for what many of us know it really is: A day to wear sheepskin slippers all day, to drink beer out of a plastic helmet beginning at 10 A.M., to place inappropriately large wagers on the always hotly-contested outcome of Puppy Bowl VIII, to watch just a token amount of [...]

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Soft Pretzels

by Jillian Bedell January 11, 2012

Eating a soft pretzel fills me with happy nostalgia. I have a vague yet comforting memory of pulling them apart while being pushed in a shopping carriage up and down the aisles of an early ’80′s big box store. Salty. Chewy. Warm. They’re pure comfort. Later we got them at the mall, a thinner, more buttery version [...]

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Snack For An Urban Albanile

by Jillian Bedell April 6, 2011

Abraham is an albanile in Yucatan. He constructed the walls of our house with block and cement, rebar and string and strong tree limbs to hold the materials in place while they dry. But Abraham is a craftsman as well as a laborer and in our living room, he built a beautiful bookshelf with doved [...]

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