Thursday Night Smackdown

It’s been almost five awesome years, but the time has come to end TNS. The site will still be here for all your recipe reference needs, but there will be no new posts. Please, pop over to Kin...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2013/01/11/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

I am, you see, on the horns of a dilemma; a dilemma ultimately of my own making. Confound my irrepressible talent! I don’t even LIKE pickles. Here’s the thing: I made some green chile posole ...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/20/green-chile-posole/

I apologize in advance that I am about to become such a riddle wrapped in an enigma, shrouded in a veil of mystery. And then, since this is America, wrapped in bacon, deep-fried in tallow, and wa...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/19/enigma/

If you’re anything like me, you’re always being invited to multi-course dinner parties at the homes of the social elite, and you’re running out of clever hostess gift ideas. Right? I mean, ...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/16/tears-of-sorrow/

I was debating between the classic Sally Field acceptance speech, the Kayne/Taylor Swift thing or a pic of the Biebs getting some kind of tweenybopper award for Most Comically Oversized High-Top ...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/14/dont-you-dare-play-me-off-you-sons-of-bitches/

You may be aware that both Brian and I are big nerds, although in different ways. I’m a bookish history dork, and he’s a fantasy game-lover. And what are fantasy game-lovers suckers for? Dice...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/09/food-dice/

A preliminary note of caution: if you (1) are six years old, (2) have a pet bunny or (3) are my mother-in-law, you’re going to want to scroll right past the first photo in this post. You may wa...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/08/rabbit-sausage/

You’d think I’d have learned my lesson about farmer’s market-darling vegetables with the ramps. But no; like a sucker, I spent the better part of my evening fussing over squash blossoms. (E...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/04/crab-stuffed-squash-blossoms-recipe/

Food and kitchenware loving peoples of the world, I think we’re going off the rails on a bit of a crazy train. A foodie-type email list to which I subscribed recently commended the Herriott Gra...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/07/02/insanely-expensive-wooden-spoon/

One more reason not to like our buyers: because of all the madness, I have not yet had the opportunity to bust out the ice cream maker. I mean, it’s the last week of June already! One-third of ...

https://thursdaynightsmackdown.com/2012/06/30/roasted-peach-creme-fraiche-ice-cream-recipe/