Taking the New Year’s Eve gig allows me to join every other lazy columnist in the world in looking back rather than creating new content. Here are the top 4 things I learned from WFD this year:
List View
Considering how long I’ve been around here, I’m kind of ashamed I only figured this out recently: there’s a “list view” option for looking at things like every WFD posted.
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Cookbook Apps
In ninkasi23’s WFD about apps for cooking, sammy912 brought the word that there’s one for Joy of Cooking, my favorite cookbook. I call that a good addition to my iPad.
We’ll Need a Drink
I guess this is a “laugh while you can” item, the Donald Trump Cocktail from blueoregon’s Booze WFD.
Readers will like things you don’t expect them to
I was reluctant to write about something as simple and totally inelegant as cabbage noodles. What happened? It was the most recced WFD of 2016. (List View lets you sort by that.) So share your recipes with us, and don’t worry that they have to be something special or unique.
Dinner plan here is lentil soup, and unless something dramatic happens soon I’m not going out anywhere. I hope your plans are more interesting than mine, but either way I hope you have a good New Year. Tomorrow I’ll cook Hoppin’ John, which is a plan I know a lot of Americans will share.
I’m hoping for less drama tonight than last New Year’s Eve, when the bar I was in caught fire around 9:30. It’s an old wooden building, and one of the cigarette smokers on the front porch picked the wrong place to drop a butt, starting a smolder that didn’t endanger anyone but had to be dealt with. Public servants of two different departments responded promptly and we soon had 7 fire vehicles, including 4 real engines and 3 command SUVs. Two of those many firefighters scraped at the porch with their axes and extinguished our little fire, and we went back to drinking. Our bartender was in a bad mood the rest of the night, I suspect someone had taken advantage of the disturbance to skip on their tab.
What’s for dinner at your place? Resolve to write for WFD sometime in the new year! Message ninkasi23 if you can.