You know how there are certain dishes that you will almost always order if they’re on the menu wherever you go out to eat? Like, maybe you can’t turn down steak tartare, or duck breast, or chicken and waffles, or maybe it’s New York…
Sometimes you just want some soup. Maybe it’s cold outside, or maybe you’ve just had a crappy week and you’re looking for a hug from a big bowl of warm comforting broth. Let me suggest this soup as a nice alternative to the usual…
It’s Sunday afternoon, do you know where your chicken sandwich is? Well it ain’t at Chick-fil-A, now is it? Did you know that each Sunday, the collective groan emanating from people all over the Southeast just wanting some tasty chicken sandwiches can be heard…
Here’s the deal. I didn’t grow up eating chicken and dumplings. I legitimately don’t think that my parents ever made them. I don’t think that their parents ever made them. I used to chalk that up to the fact that chicken and dumplings are…
I have a confession. I don’t eat red meat. It’s a long story, but it has been probably nine years since I abruptly stopped eating it, and I can’t say that I miss it at all. Except… The one thing that I do still…
A few months ago, I was scrolling through Instagram at 3am, as is my habit, (and I wonder why I’m tired in the morning) when I got a targeted ad for Misfits Market. I swear, Instagram targeted ads stare into your GD SOUL. How…
I know so many people who hate salmon. I have a theory that it’s not the salmon they hate, it’s that they hate poorly cooked salmon. I get it. Overcooked salmon is the worst. It is almost crumbly and somehow super fishy. Gross. Nobody…
Let’s be honest, meatloaf isn’t exactly some high brow cuisine. It’s a dish meant to stretch a little bit of protein a long way for not that much money. I mean, you put ketchup on it for Pete’s sake. So why in the hell…
Don’t you just hate it when your cheese drawer is filled with little bits of cheeses, just haunting you every time you open the fridge like orphaned ghosts of charcuterie boards past? No? Just us? Well, as self-proclaimed cheese enthusiasts, we are apt to…
In this world, there are two different types of people. Brinner people and anti brinner people.…
I am not one of these guys that’s all about ‘grill life’ or whatever the hell you want to call it. I mean, sure, I like cooking on the grill every once in a while, but I’m not dedicating every ounce of culinary energy…
It has been well-documented that we love pasta around this house. You might say that it is out love language. It is easy, inexpensive, makes amazing leftovers. What’s not to love? In fact, Shaun bought me pasta-shaped necklaces for our anniversary. After eleven years…
Yes, you read that right. Krab, also known as crab with a ‘k’, also known as imitation crab meat, also known as Alaskan pollock. But don’t be so quick to turn away from this recipe. I mean, we’re talking about poke bowls here, not…
It is no secret that we’re big fans of pasta dishes around these parts. We eat it all. Long, short, creamy, tomatoey, oily…To be honest, we don’t discriminate much, other than that we’re not huge fans of jarred sauces (Mid’s being perhaps our only…
Hi. We’re The Duncans, and we’re hopeless Millennials. (Hi Duncans.) It has been three days since our last avocado. (Unenthusiastic clapping.)…
Leftovers. They’re an Olympic sport in this house. You’d think that over a decade in catering would have deadened me to food waste, but I just can’t stand it. I am literally that mom who says “There are starving children who would love to…
You wanna know what’s really good sometimes? Roasted chicken. You wanna know what is absolutely shitty and terrible sometimes? Roasted chicken. Listen, I get it, chicken excites literally nobody. Well, maybe Chick-fil-a, but that’s not the point. Let’s face it, most chicken is boring,…
I am a firm believer that every person should have a meal in his or her back pocket that is the one that is reserved for company. Here is what I consider to be the criteria: Ingredients must be simple and generally well-liked by…
Shaun’s parents were kind enough to gift us with a kid-free weekend a few weeks back. At the risk of sounding like a cliche, we completely needed it. Cabin fever was getting REAL real. Our weekend was CRAZY. We went antiquing. We went to…
We often say that cooking in our house is like an episode of Chopped. There’s just a bunch of seemingly unrelated ingredients that we have to throw together in some sort of coherent way while under a time crunch, and then someone judges our…