Soiling the bread knife

Posted 9 Mar 2010

Daily Life, Food, The Little Things | 6 Comments 

There has been a local debate raging for some time about whether or not a bread knife needs to be cleaned every time that it’s used to slice through bread. I argue that it doesn’t get that dirty and therefore only deserves a wipe down in most instances. Those on the opposite side of the argument suggest that every usage of the knife warrants a proper cleaning.

Please, dear readers, weigh in with your thoughts and comments please. How often do you clean your own respective bread knives?

Cheating the leftovers

Posted 3 Feb 2010

Daily Life, Food, Guest Post | 8 Comments 

A devoted and loyal reader in the Chicago area submitted the following comments:

I was thinking the other day that there are some foods that I like better as leftovers than on the first time around.  Take spaghetti.  I like it enough when it is just cooked, but give me some left over spaghetti and that is even better than recently cooked.  Lasagna and turkey too.

This raises a couple of questions for me:

1. If a person made the meal and just put it in the fridge and subsequently served it, would it still maintain all the benefits of leftovers that made me like it in the first place?

2.  Does it matter if I was a party to the original meal?  So the food was cooked and served and leftover stored and I take my first crack at it as leftovers.  Same effect?

3. Are there any beverages that are tastier as “leftovers”?

Thanks to our reader from Chicago for contributing this post!

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Wet and dry cooking

Posted 1 Feb 2010

Daily Life, Food | 7 Comments 

Does anyone else think it’s kind of quirky that some foods can be cooked just as well when they are soaked in water as when they are dry and heated?

I’ll give you two examples.

Baked potatoes versus Boiled potatoes

Grilled Corn-on-the-cob versus Boiled Corn-on-the-cob

Timing is everything

Posted 19 Jan 2010

Daily Life, Food, The Little Things | 9 Comments 

Why are some foods only delicious at certain parts of the day?  I realize this is not a universal problem, but there are people for whom there are “breakfast foods” and “everything else.”  I am one of those people.  Give me scrambled eggs as my first meal of the day and I couldn’t be happier, but give them to me in the evening and I won’t go near them.  Why does the timing of the meal matter so much?  Can’t I just like eggs or cereal no matter what?

(Unless I wake up hungover… in which case, bring on the cheeseburger!)

Café Taxidermista

Posted 16 Dec 2009

Food, Guest Post, Signs | 8 Comments 

Chapter Three* from Spain:

Hungry anyone?

Thanks again to the chickenmonkeydoggian from Chicago for submitting all these quirky moments from her recent trip to Spain.

Here at ChickenMonkeyDog we encourage all of our visitors to submit photos of the quirky things they encounter to chickenmonkeydog [at] gmail [dot] com!

* Our Technical Editor has lost track of which number in the series this Spanish guest post.