Well, optional for you maybe. Me, I like a nice hunk of bacon nestled in there with some slow-cooked collards. I got turned on to eating them with a few shakes of the hot pepper vinegar on the counter at Lamar's, a greasy spoon I used to frequent in Biloxi.
Nancy's favorite crackers. I'd show you mine but you've probably already seen a Cheez-it. Click for the next pic – installment one of the Dick's GarlicCam series.
Photo by Dick Stein / KPLU
Garlic I planted at the end of October. They're about four inches high now. I scream abuse at them every morning to make them mean. Keep watching this space for weekly update shots.
No, not about Cracker the p(t)et pterodactyl in Captain Underpants. He'd snack on you. Nor do I refer to the Hamadryasgenus of brush-footed butterflies commonly called The Cracker. This is about the kind of crackers you eat. And eat. And eat.
I think so. Just look at it: Yogurt. Call it a typographical phobia but I'm not eatin' anything that looks like that word. Even its etymology is not encouraging.
It happened to KPLU's Grooveyard and Weekend Edition host Kevin Kniestedt. Assaulted by a deranged woman in an electric shopping cart at a local supermarket. Click "listen" to hear him describe his harrowing ordeal.
I don't bother to do it but Nancy Leson does. Find out why below – along with the reason you should never use old tuna cans to cut biscuits.
I've also posted my "Clamity Cheryl" DeGroot-approved red clam sauce recipe. You can make it in the time it takes to bring a big pot of water to boil for the spaghetti – and in these times of the Fetish for Fresh it's proud to usecanned clams.
I do. So does Seattle Times food writer Nancy Leson – but only if they're fried. Others won't eat them at all, no matter how succulently crisp those feathery little hind appendages may be.
Don't you think you're due? It had been about ten years for me and that was too long.
Traditionalist that I am I went with Oscar Mayer, spongy white bread, mayo, iceberg lettuce and house-brand chips. The result is pictured above. Was it good?
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