Ever fall down an Internet rabbit hole? Stupid question, of course, you have. None of us are immune to the easy charms of Google. You innocently Google one thing and that leads to another thing and suddenly it’s 2:30 am, you really have to pee, and your leg is asleep. Most of us are guilty of falling down a black hole of celebrity intrigue, nostalgia-driven YouTube hopping and/or intentionally fruitless online “shopping”. But I’m willing to wager that few have spent the better part of a day Googling a cheese sauce. This is something I did in real life and am now admitting to on the Internets. And while I’ll admit the nerdiness is, well, embarrassing, it did lead to this Pimento Cheese Tuna Melt. So, there’s that.
Yes, I know it’s Saturday. And, yes, I am aware that this Winter Citrus Salad is, in fact, a salad. No, I’m not trying to make Salad Saturdays a thing. I promise I’m not a monster, I just happened to make a salad and it happened to be quite delicious and I thought you might be interested. There is also a chance I’m a touch hungover today, so vegetables are looking bizarrely appetizing at the moment. This is most definitely a sign of some sort of vitamin deficiency. But let’s not focus on the questionable life choices I’ve made this weekend, instead, let’s turn our attention to this Winter Citrus Salad with Marinated White Beans & Olives. Pretty, right?!
Have you ever wondered why Boston Cream Pie is called a pie when it is, in fact, a cake? Me too. Guess we’ll never know. I’m just kidding. I did the Googling on your behalf and found that back when the Boston Cream Pie was the new dessert on the block, bakers baked both cakes and pies in the same pans. The common bakeware led bakers to use the terms “cake” and “pie” interchangeably. And that’s how you get the Boston Cream Pie, which is most certainly not a pie. When and why we decided to differentiate between pies and cakes, I don’t know – that would’ve required a rather more extensive Google search. Instead, I’ve decided to make this pie/cake business more complicated by turning the pie/cake in question into a macaron. In my defense, these Boston Cream Macarons are, in fact, macarons. Progress?
