Spilled Milk

In this flaky, buttery episode, Molly and Matthew pull apart the culinary conundrum that is a croissant. How did the croissant conquer the world when it's so hard to make? We're still not sure, but we’re willing to eat four croissants for lunch in order to find out. We investigate butter slabs, shoeboxes, Costco, and Pillsbury crescent rolls on our way to enlightenment.www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

What's your jam? Our jam is jam. Strawberry, gooseberry, tayberry, damson...but grape? Not so much. We taste a bunch of jams on toast and have a Smucking good time doing it. spilledmilkpodcast.com

Surprisingly little talk of Eddie Murphy on this buckwheat-centric episode. Buckwheat for dinner? Yes! For dessert? Yes! As a hearty, toasted breakfast cereal? Well, how Dickensian do you want to get? Recipes: Kasha, Buckwheat Waffles, Nibby Buckwheat Butter Cookies, Soba with Peanut-Citrus Sauce, Buckwheat Pancakes. spilledmilkpodcast.com Kasha Breakfast PorridgeBuckwheat wafflesNibby Buckwheat Butter Cookies‎Soba with Peanut-Citrus SauceThe New Steak BUCKWHEAT PANCAKES 2/3 cup unbleached all-purpose flour1/3 cup buckwheat flour2 tsp. granulated sugar½ tsp. salt½ tsp. baking powder¼ tsp. baking soda¾ cup buttermilk¼ cup plus 2 Tbsp. milk (preferably not low- or nonfat)1 large egg, separated2 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightlyVegetable oil or more melted butter, for greasing the griddlePure maple syrup, for serving In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, sugar, salt, bakingpowder, and baking soda. Set aside. Pour the buttermilk and milk into a medium bowl. Whisk the egg whiteinto the milk m

Ever since airlines stopped serving meals on domestic flights, comedians have had nothing to talk about. That didn't stop us from having a rollicking discussion of what to bring on the plane, snacks served on the plane, and why Molly and Matthew are odoriferously unwelcome on planes. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Finally, an episode about our namesake. Molly and Matthew mustache their way through quarts of milk. We sidestep the raw milk debate and cow vs goat, but we take a strong position on chunky vs creamy. Moo. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

If there are no onions involved, is it really cooking? Molly's Polish grandmother says no. If you don't have a Polish grandmother, this episode makes a good substitute. Molly and Matthew peel back the layers, have a good cry, talk shopping and chopping, and basically treat the supermarket onion display like their personal ball crawl. Recipes: Onion Tart, Supper Onion Pie. EXPLICIT. spilledmilkpodcast.com Onion Tart: http://orangette.blogspot.com/2005/02/pte-brise-for-pillow.html Supper Onion Pie: http://www.culinate.com/recipes/collections/Contributors/Matthew+Amster-Burton/Supper+Onion+Pie

How does a chicory root become a bunch of tightie whities? What can broccoli rabe teach us about Matthew’s masculinity? And if you close your eyes, can you taste the difference between escarole and radicchio? If you’re mad keen for bitter greens, this is the episode for you. Recipes: Sauteed Radicchio and Escarole, Molly Stevens’s Braised Endive with Prosciutto. spilledmilkpodcast.com

Molly and Matthew taste four classic chips, with surprising results. As you might expect, this episode consists entirely of crunching and made-up potato chip slogans. Are O'Boisies really o'boisterous? We're not sure, because they don't make them anymore. spilledmilkpodcast.com

Do you dare to touch the frozen banana? We did, and we lived to tell you about it in excruciating detail. You are going to be so proud of how many monkey and human anatomy jokes we resisted making on this show. Recipes: Bananas Foster II; Banana Bread with Chocolate and Crystallized Ginger. spilledmilkpodcast.com Kickstart Matthew's new book: http://bit.ly/mamster

What's that smell, you ask? Why, it's Molly and Matthew, and we've just eaten enough garlic bread to ward off all vampires (and humans with functioning olfactory bulbs) within a hundred-mile radius. This week, we're talking hardneck garlic, softneck garlic, green garlic, garlic scapes, and blah blah blah, but let's cut to the chase: GARLIC BREAD. Recipes: Garlic Bread, Spinach-and-Green-Garlic Soup. spilledmilkpodcast.com Simply Recipes Garlic Bread: http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/garlic_bread/Spinach and Green Garlic Soup: http://orangette.blogspot.com/2008/04/that-easy.html

Why do some fruits get better when you put them in a can and others turn into clammy eyeballs? We have no idea, but we keep opening cans of peaches, pears, fruit cocktail, and more, until we're up to our necks in heavy syrup. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Any episode that includes the question “do you prefer head-on or headless?” has got to be pretty good, right? We dive into the undersea world of shrimp and surface with a briny hangover and a couple of pretty awesome recipes. Recipes: Rick Bayless’s Shrimp with Mojo de Ajo, Kasma Loha-unchit’s Hot and Sour Shrimp Salad. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com Rick Bayless’s Shrimp with Mojo de Ajo: http://www.food.com/recipe/shrimp-with-sweet-toasty-garlic-camarones-al-mojo-de-ajo-135089Kasma Loha-unchit’s Hot and Sour Shrimp Salad:http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/recipes/shrmpsal.html

Gather round the campfire, children, because we have ghost stories from darkest Florida that'll scare you boneless! Meanwhile, Molly's marshmallow catches fire seventeen times. That's not a euphemism. Then we make s'mores. (Also not a euphemism.) And fluffernutters. (Possibly a euphemism.) www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

A band of renegade and not-too-smart historians argues that the Civil War was fought over cornbread. Should it be sweet, cakey, and yellow? Or savory, white, and crisp-crusted? Is it true that the best Southern cornbread is made with yankee cornmeal? Could this secret heal a divided nation? Our two intrepid historians dig in. NOTE: We make fun of a guy's funny name on the show; it turns out that guy doesn't actually have "III" in his name, just so you know. Recipes: East Coast Grill Cornbread; John Thorne's Southern-Style Skillet Cornbread. www.spilledmilkdpodcast.com

A note to fans of cakey brownies, if you even exist: you can skip this episode. Here at Spilled Milk, we fall on the fudgy side of the Great Brownie Divide, and it’s nice and soft and gooey over here. Join us as we discuss the finer points (and edge pieces, and corner pieces, and middle pieces) of the brownie, with help from Bonnie Raitt, Katharine Hepburn, and a guy named Steve. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

We're strolling down memory lane again, and this time, we're checking out cans.  From SpaghettiOs to tiny burgers in soup, we're revisiting the canned foods of our youth, and hey, would you look at that: we didn't even maim ourselves on the can opener, Mom. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Five out of five dentists recommend listening to this episode, because there is as of yet no known mechanism for sound waves to cause tooth decay. Unless you lie around listening to the show for days on end without brushing your teeth, in which case we and our dentists recommend sugarless gum. Which, coincidentally, is one of two subjects we cover this week. The other is sugary gum. EXPLICIT. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Do you still have nightmares about stinky little green heads on your childhood dinner plate? We're here for a grownup look at Brussels sprouts, with a hearty dose of heavy cream and hot metal. (Just kidding; we've never done anything grownup on this show and are not about to start.) Recipes: Cream-braised Brussels Sprouts; Shredded Brussels Sprouts with Kimchi. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Yes, we love the real Chinese food you can get in major Western cities today. But we've never lost our taste for the gloopy takeout we ate as kids. That's why we're feasting this week on beef with snow peas, sweet and sour chicken, and other cornstarchy favorites. Features a guest appearance by an 70s teen idol. Sort of. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com

Gather round, friends. We have a special treat for you: plain yogurt. Yeah, we said it. This week we climb into a metaphorical vat of probiotic goodness and discuss texture, mix-ins, and made-up yogurt science. Includes a rare Molly-Matthew disagreement on the subject of Greek yogurt. www.spilledmilkpodcast.com