Stay For Dinner

DC makes Kirby Mekler's brown butter sugar cookies with Cadbury Mini Eggs then welcomes Nicole Byer (NAILED IT, WIPEOUT) to talk Impossible Whoppers, Steve Aoki's ghost kitchen pizza, Rogue One spoilers, people-watching at Mastro's, Howlin' Ray's, whether our deceased parents would be in to conspiracy theories, injuries of all kinds, and a whole lot more!

RECIPE:

https://leisurefanclub.com/the-best-brown-butter-sugar-cookies-with-cadbury-mini-eggs/

DC makes Nigella Lawson's salt and vinegar roasted potatoes and then welcomes Rick Perlstein (author of "Nixonland," "The Invisible Bridge," "Reaganland") to talk airport food rituals, post-yoga-class Reubens, Reagan on the mashed-potato circuit, how a guy named Earl Butz destroyed the family farm, bachelor food shopping at CVS, Chicago grocery store culture, book club with the Watergate Babies, Reggie Bars, and a whole lot more!

RECIPE: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/salt-and-vinegar-potatoes

DC makes Emily Nunn's easy orange salad and then welcomes Dhruv Uday Singh (Good Trouble, Prodigal Son) to talk about Korean fried chicken, eggs Kejriwal, being a part of air-fryer nation, the aching vulnerability of Zoom auditions, post-breakup weed intake, soufflé aspirations, and a whole lot more!

RECIPE:

https://eatsomesalad.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-department-of-salad-d18

DC roasts a sweet potato for a really long time then adds butter, tahini, lemon and sea salt (do it!) then chats with Alex Scordelis (Difficult People, Billy On The Street) about depraved In-N-Out orders, the lineage of cakes with hidden good luck charms inside, Flaming Dr. Peppers, secret fantasy football tribunals, his Neil Young cover band the Cinnamon Boys, and a whole lot more!

DC rings in the New Year by making Mashama Bailey's stewed black eyed peas then talks to Shaan Baig (The Get Brown, Bollywood Boys) about his epic journey from high school forensics to pre-med to being a comedian slash dentist, Ramadan social scheduling, Lisa Simpson moments, white coat ceremonies, his mom's lamb biryani and a whole lot more.

RECIPE

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1019833-stewed-black-eyed-peas?ds_c=71700000052595478&gclid=Cj0KCQiAlsv_BRDtARIsAHMGVSa-T6aQP_lizmJ74kjZGwR8rKLEPCF9uvn40njgdRHIQCY975sk_VoaAuToEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

SHAAN'S YOUTUBE

A short note to say exactly that. Thanks for listening, see you next week!

DC makes Brinda Ayer's sugee biscuits AKA semolina butter cookies (or does he?) and then welcomes Ben and Kirby Mekler (Mortal Podkast and Leisure Fan Club, respectively) for the podcast debut of their new daughter Sunday, custom latke brainstorming live on the air, Kirby's food photography do's and don'ts, Mortal Kombat fighters' favorite foods, and a whole lot more!

RECIPE

https://food52.com/recipes/82214-sugee-biscuits-recipe

KIRBY'S SITE

leisure fan club

DC celebrates the culmination of a weeks-long ramen project by welcoming the authors of the comic-book cookbook LET'S MAKE RAMEN, Sarah Becan and Hugh Amano, to discuss how much a "bushel" is, what to do with 25 lbs of sweet potatoes, why banks have blue logos and restaurants have red logos, where ramen comes from and where it's going, snow monkeys boiling eggs, America's next top dumplings, and more!

LET'S MAKE RAMEN:

https://littleshopofcomics.com/products/lets-make-ramen-comic-book-cookbook-itm848409

DC preserves some lemons then welcomes Nikki Palumbo (The New Yorker) to talk about her connection to Italian food, her 93 year old nana's cavatelli / roast beef / deepest darkest secrets, adapting the family stuffed artichoke recipe to be vegan, adult slumber parties and vision boarding, whether physical therapists are more depressed than dentists, Pez dispenser injuries, her bloodiest kitchen mishaps, and more!

RECIPE

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016212-preserved-lemons

DC makes shio tare as the ramen project nears completion then chats with Carey O'Donnell (Heathers, Sexy Unique Podcast) about LA deli culture, NJ diner culture, candy rituals, home economics, condescending study abroad teachers, why God placed him at one very specific Coldstone Creamery on one very special day, and more!