There are dozens of different techniques for making classic rural English pork pies. They range from an involved, two-day long process rife with opportunities to injure yourself with hot, liquid fat to this fairly simple hand pie recipe for people who want to make up three batches of different pies […]
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How to Eat Like a Hobbit in Seven Steps: Dinner
It’s no surprise potatoes are one of the only three new world crops Tolkien couldn’t bear to ban from the Shire. (He also let them keep coffee and tobacco.) Sure, parsnips and turnips were more nutritious English root vegetables, but nothing can replace the cheap versatility of the simple potato. […]
Dune Week: Spice Stuffed Sandworm Bread
I have an entirely irrational love of David Lynch’s 1984 science fiction epic, Dune. (This is almost unrelated to my entirely rational and well thought out love of Frank Herbert’s Dune books. These two things should never be confused.) Maybe I saw it at just the right age to find Sting, […]
Dubious Deadpool’s Red Velvet Brownies
When not stuffing your face with chimichangas and endless stacks of pancakes, you’ll want a few bites of something as sweet as Bea Arthur. In less than an hour, you can throw together these Deadpool inspired Red Velvet brownies with a sleeve of Oreos, bad intentions, and some staples you already have lurking in your pantry.
CW The Flash Cranberry, Pear and Crystallized Ginger Pie
Decorate your holiday table with a seasonal pie as adorable as Barry Allen himself!
Dune. Arrakis. Dessert Planet – Sandworms Swimming Near A Spice Patch
After John Scalzi sent hordes of Fremen to my sietch with his wormsign, the people rose up with one voice, demanding one answer. What’s in the sandworm pie posed alongside your spice stuffed sandworm bread?