Recipes

ALDI Finds for the week of 3/8/23 include salty snacks for March Madness, fishy Finds for Lent, and plant-related products for your home & garden. Check out this week’s picks below, and let me know what you want to Find. Let’s start with seafood Finds this time, because value packs of wild caught pollock are a nice deal in this latest ad at $7.99 per frozen 2 lb bag. At $7.99 for 8.8 oz, though, these Blue Hill Bay smoked salmon poke bowls are crazy expensive… no matter how good they are. 🙂 Look for these in the refrigerated/deli section, but I...

This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Kevin R. Doyle will be awarding a $10 Amazon or Barnes and Noble GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour. Rob Jeffers has it all: fame, money, and the life of a rock and roll star. Frank Peters is a regular guy, a newspaper reporter who just happens to have a passing acquaintance with the Great Jeffers. As Jeffers’s career shoots up, Peters’s fortunes follows in his wake. And...

Steve Pyke Philip Roth Goes Home AgainPhilip Roth, a prize-winning novelist and frequent Esquire contributor, died Tuesday night at the age of 85. In 2010, on the occasion of his thirty-first book, Esquire's Scott Raab returned to the Newark of Roth's boyhood. And there, on Philip Roth Plaza, he couldn't stop laughing.Scott RaabMay 22, 2018This story first appeared in the October 2010 edition of Esquire.There are worse places to be stuck in traffic than midtown Manhattan, worse people to be stuck with than Philip Roth. It's pretty nice, actually: Esquire hired a car to schlep us to New Jersey, Roth's old Jewing grounds,...

These XO noodles with pork are salty, spicy, and super luxe, thanks to a few heaping spoonfuls of XO sauce. It’s an easy pork noodle recipe you’ll want in your regular rotation. I already wrote about the magic of XO sauce in the recipe I posted for lobster noodles. Since I still had a jar from that recipe, I decided to work my way through every last drop. This recipe follows many of the same ingredients and flavor profiles. XO sauce and pork are already quite a popular combination (for good reason). For this noodle recipe, I wanted to create...

For decades, residents of this Liberian village have anticipated Sunday morning ringing from the church up the hill. A young church member takes a metal rod and strikes a steel plate suspended between two wooden posts. It can be heard for more than a mile all around. But today’s ringing signals something new on the old bell—a church service, yes. But something more. Many of the families are already in their Sunday best walking the dirt paths leading toward Mercy Temple Church of God in Christ, a long-standing congregation in Sweaken, an area of southeastern Liberia’s River Gee County. Today...