Category: Food

  • Chicken and steak quesadillas

    Chicken and steak quesadillas

    As a San Diegan, Mexican food is part of my core food groups. There are supposed to be four or five food groups, depending on when you attended school over the last few decades. Well, if you lived in California, one of those groups is definitely Mexican food. Since moving to Ozark, AL, I have…

  • Chicken bake sandwiches

    Chicken bake sandwiches

    This was a relatively quick lunch for my kids, taking roughly 20 minutes to make (while weighing ingredients and taking pictures). I expect that someone who’s reasonably on top of their game can bang this out in 15 without rushing. Bake time is 10min if you’re doing burger buns, or 7min if you’re doing rice…

  • Making 3 Open Face Subs For $2.50 in 2024

    Making 3 Open Face Subs For $2.50 in 2024

    A friend was recently complaining on Facebook about how basic fast food sandwiches are no longer $1. I certainly share in the annoyance of fast food inflation, but this made me realize that folks may not be familiar with the scope of their available options. Wal-Mart uses (or perhaps misuses) a lot of vertical integration…

  • Eat that in a small town

    One of the things I focus on at Newton Publications are things that you miss from the big city, and what to do about it. If you describe what you’re missing to the locals, it seems irrelevant to them, because they’ve never had it. It’s like you are describing colors to someone who’s very happy…