Truffled salmon with capers, buttered trumpet mushrooms, salad with mustard dressing, and, of course, white wine. The Bartender is starting to think about THANKSGIVING.

Breakfast of bartenders and champions. Is it too early to talk about holiday gift ideas?

Happy Halloween, Toasties! My mom sent me a box of persimmons that my friend immediately misidentified as "baby-pumpkins."

Toasties. Ramen is the way forward.

Toasties! It's cold and gross and finally time for Nicole's favorite mushroom soup, which The Bartender made in order to pretend that Nicole was coming over for dinner when she was not, in fact, doing so.

Toasties. Spicy hurts so bad but so good.

Duck and truffle pâté, veg with truffle salt, and cheese. The Bartender celebrates Rosh Hashanah in her own way.

Happy Friday, Toasties. Rejoice while you can.

How has no one ever told The Bartender about slow cookers? Did you enjoy me slaving away at the stove for hours, checking for burns, seeing splatters decorate my kitchen quite unpleasantly while food "simmered"???

Dearest Toasties, thank you all so much for your comforting words and gifs and videos, they all helped.

Toasties. What book are you reading right now?

In a week of awful, a bowl of cream covering a few rum-soaked lady fingers along with limoncello remind one of goodness and joy.

Do you do more things on summer weeknights than winter ones? Feel festive all the time? Do you then regret everything in the mornings? NO MATTER. Because it's Friday and we are gonna open thread like the wind.

Toasties! Just look at those colors. Rosé, olives, cheese. And all at home on a couch because it's a mad mad mad summer!

Toasties! Why can't all drinks have pickles in them?