When I was in college, I used to open my door during final exams and find a box of cookies underfoot. This meant that Jessica had been hard at work, somehow baking off hundreds of cookies in between studying for and taking exams. For […]
this post is really about homemade samoas, a recipe that i noticed popping up on the blogs a few weeks ago. but first (first?!), a digression about that label on so many blog recipes: “recipe adapted from.” for the samoas, i used graham crackers as […]
lindsay: would you like to try some of this?
buster: [tasting] so watery…yet there’s a smack of ham to it.
lindsay: …it’s hot ham water!
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in warren, john and i drove by a place called “ham king II.” unfortunately for our curiosity, but more fortunately for our stomachs, we satisfied ourselves with a slow driveby of the fairly dilapidated storefront – plastic tarp for windows, dinginess abounded. we also passed “ham cafe,” which we also graced with a driveby, but no economic patronage.
instead, star market got my economic patronage when i returned from warren, interested in making a ham (not just for my own curiosity, but also for keith, whom i imagine subconsciously pining for ham over any other form of pork save bacon). well, just you try getting a ham in july. they’re not so much in demand in cambridge, at whole foods, harvest, or star market. i had intended to do a ham for july 4, but ended up doing barbecued ribs instead because i couldn’t find a ham. a week later, i still couldn’t find a true, thanksgiving-style ham, so i settled for a bone-in smoked pork butt from star market. (more…)