• Stack of no bake Peanut Butter S'mores Bars
    Baking Projects,  Food Feelings

    No Bake Peanut Butter S’mores Bars

    Okay look. I think I need to explain how I think about myself in the kitchen. I am a diligent recipe follower. You’ll never catch me in a comment section with an “I substituted 4 eggs instead instead of the canola oil and air fried it at 500° for 30 minutes and it didn’t turn out :((((” Baking recipes get followed verbatim, even if that means running to the store in the middle of a task to get more vanilla extract. With cooking I can riff a little—I can swap out or add some ingredients with very little brow sweat involved but I still keep close to the original instructions.…

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    The Weird Grief of A Pimento {and} Cheese Sandwich

    There’s a particular memory I have of my father—most likely a conglomeration of dozens of these tiny occurrences. I remember seeing him with his back to me, standing at the kitchen counter. There’s a tiny jar of red peppers, a much larger jar of Blue Plate mayonnaise, and some yellowy-orange cheese. I can hear the soft tinkling sounds of a butter knife against a bowl, the rustling of a bag of white bread. In a matter of moments there’s a sandwich on a plate—2 simple squares of white bread with a mushy pinkish orange something spread in between. I don’t know if I’m the only weirdo running around calling this…