The Tom and Jerry drink is like your cool older cousin that you only see around the holidays. You could see them any time of year but you wont, just at the holidays for some reason. Tom and Jerry’s have nothing to do with the cartoon and are a Holiday staple from Buffalo, NY to … Read more
Stuffed Banana Peppers in Buffalo, NY are different. These six cheese filled mild capsicums are the regional dish you probably haven’t heard of, but they’re so Buffalo that they use them as a pizza topping. If you like to just load your banana peppers with cream cheese and call it a day your aren’t wrong… … Read more
the Grandma Brown’s baked beans factory in Mexico, NY closed for good a couple years ago, and I can’t think of anything more sad. 20 times better than Bush’s, Grandma Brown’s beans missing from my grocer’s shelves left a whole in my heart and an empty spot on my plate. But have no fear, this … Read more
Dorr’s BBQ Chicken comes from my grandfather, Dorr. After my grandparents passed I was gifted photo copies of all the recipes they had amassed. Many of the recipes were things like “Chick Pea Dip” which is just 1960’s middle class white American for hummus. Dorr’s BBQ chicken on the other hand, brought back all the … Read more
Of all the regional dishes of Upstate, NY, Utica Greens may be the youngest… In this form at least. Legend has it that this recipe was born from the resourcefulness of great depression cooks, but this recipe did not gain notoriety until it was introduced the the menu of the Chesterfield Restaurant (Permanently Closed) in … Read more