PB and Honey Donuts with Honey Roasted Peanuts

PB and Honey Donuts with Honey Roasted Peanuts
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Today’s PB and Honey Donuts are a love letter to the first sandwich I ever learned how to make myself – peanut butter and honey. My mom was always keen on independence, so I started making my own school lunches fairly early on. But because my repertoire was limited, whenever I brown-bagged it to school chances were there was a PB and honey sandwich in that bag. And yes, I am old enough to remember a time when peanut butter was allowed in schools. You’d think after years of eating the same sandwich I’d be sick of it but I’m not. I still love the combo to this day, so much so that I saw fit to immortalize it in donut form. And the result was pretty spectacular if I do say so myself. So let’s dive in!

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Spicy Caesar Bucatini with Fresh Basil

Spicy Caesar Bucatini with Fresh Basil
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Today’s Spicy Caesar Bucatini is, unsurprisingly, inspired by the caesar. The cocktail, not the salad. I took the tell-tale flavors of the Clamato-based drink and turned them into dinner. Imagine clams steamed in a blistered cherry tomato, horseradish, and vodka sauce tossed with chewy bucatini pasta. Oh! And as the name suggests, there’s a good amount of heat in this dish as well. While it may seem strange to use a cocktail as inspo for pasta, in this instance it works. And by “works” I mean, this dish is so delicious that I don’t care if it’s wrong. So let’s dive right in!

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Smoked Beef Ribs with Sumac Onions

Smoked Beef Ribs with Sumac Onions
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This is not a BBQ blog for one very simple reason, I am not a BBQ expert. I’m what you would call an enthusiastic amateur. I enjoy eating BBQ, I enjoy BBQing but I am still very much a novice in terms of skill. Mostly because when I do something good on the grill I struggle to replicate it. This immediately suggests I don’t understand what I got right. But I have been making inroads. I feel fairly confident smoking beef ribs for instance because today’s Smoked Beef Ribs with Sumac Onions forced me to buckle down and figure the damn thing out. So maybe that’s the key to my future BBQ success. Make it part of my work and I’ll actually pay attention and document the process. 

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Kimchi Deviled Eggs with Pickled Radish

Kimchi Deviled Eggs with Pickled Radish
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The season of potlucks is upon us. Okay, I guess potlucks don’t really have a season. But I do feel like more potlucks happen during the summer months than at any other time of the year. I suppose you could argue the holiday season is more potluck-heavy. But I think sit-down dinners still rule the roost in December. But in the summer picnics are plentiful, BBQs are rampant, and no one wants to work that hard because sunshine and beer exist. So potlucks it is. You open your backyard and your friends roll in with far too many salads. But you can defy the salad trope and arrive with these Kimchi Deviled Eggs instead. It’ll blow minds.

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