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Last Updated: August, 6th 2026

Serves a solo!

KEYQUESO MELTS Serves: 1Prep Time: < 5 min A Six Minute Trip FROM MAINE TO KEY WEST VIA KANSAS There…

Risen Fried Eggs Fried EGGS THAT RISE SOFTLY Before you begin, take a minute to read my article on Perfect…

Serves a pair, for those times with friends or loved ones where you make a bit less.

Baksheesh Popcorn Why would I call this riff on my house popcorn a bribe (baksheesh)? Everyone who cooks for a family…

HARISSA BREI Vegetarian-Friendly A little Semitic synthesis brings brei, broken bits of Jewish matzoh, soaked in eggs and scrambled or…

Gravlax has a “lox” on smoked salmon. It puts the deli into delicious. Well, at least Google Keywords will be happy with that corny riff!

Meet Chet’s Char. Char is a fish that is very similar to salmon. It makes a nice gravlax (lox) that you can cure yourself easily!

Party-Sized.

This is a quick mac and cheese that has that diner-grade sticky gooey that can go toe-to-toe with my chili in my split dish Chili Mac Attack plating, and it’s a star in my scrambled mac sandwich, with scrambled eggs, ham and mac and cheese in a hoagie roll.

Corn cakes are always tasty, but really HEAVY. I love arepas, and corn bread, but even the “light” cornbread seems to collapse into this uncomfortable bulk after eating.  So, after a lot of experimentation, I discovered that there is more than one way to make a corn cake.

It’s a process for the base of most of  my muffins that makes them deliciously moist, and crumbly wonderful! I named them after the nursery rhyme, and song. Swing, it, Ella: