The David Blahg

The Feast Before the Fast If I'm going to hell, I'm arriving with a full stomach.

The Feast Before the Fast • If I'm going to hell, I'm arriving with a full stomach.

The Best Damn Super Bowl Recipes From a Guy Who's Never Watched the Super Bowl Just because I don't watch it doesn't mean I don't know how to eat as if I do.

The Best Damn Super Bowl Recipes From a Guy Who's Never Watched the Super Bowl • Just because I don't watch it doesn't mean I don't know how to eat as if I do.

When the Snow Hits, Hit the Kitchen Hunker down, don't kill each other & cook

When the Snow Hits, Hit the Kitchen • Hunker down, don't kill each other & cook

12 Easy Cheese Recipes for Ultimate Comfort Man can live by cheese alone.

12 Easy Cheese Recipes for Ultimate Comfort • Man can live by cheese alone.

Healthy-ish Recipes (That Don’t Taste Like Sadness) Make one recipe and call me in the morning.

Healthy-ish Recipes (That Don’t Taste Like Sadness) • Make one recipe and call me in the morning.

Your 2025 MVPs (Most Valuable Plates) You're a star, and YOU'RE a star and YOU'RE A STAR!

Your 2025 MVPs (Most Valuable Plates) • You're a star, and YOU'RE a star and YOU'RE A STAR!

The Snacks That Save the Holidays Hospitality isn’t about having everything—it’s about making something with what you have.

The Snacks That Save the Holidays • Hospitality isn’t about having everything—it’s about making something with what you have.

From Portugal, with Love It's the making of the food, not the food itself that's our Christmas tradition.

From Portugal, with Love • It's the making of the food, not the food itself that's our Christmas tradition.

It's Soup (and Stew) o'Clock Somewhere Soups, like cocktails, should have a designated hour, I decree.

It's Soup (and Stew) o'Clock Somewhere • Soups, like cocktails, should have a designated hour, I decree.

I'll Have a Norman Rockwell Christmas if It Kills Me Cookies and hot chocolate and candy canes, dammit!

I'll Have a Norman Rockwell Christmas if It Kills Me • Cookies and hot chocolate and candy canes, dammit!

Why I Like Simple Thanksgivings the Best Some things just don't need zhuzhing up.

Why I Like Simple Thanksgivings the Best • Some things just don't need zhuzhing up.

Join Me in Lisbon Next May for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Culinary Trip It's time for a little joy in all our lives.

Join Me in Lisbon Next May for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Culinary Trip • It's time for a little joy in all our lives.

The Gravy Recipe for People Who Think They Can't Make Gravy The 15-minute cure for the last 15 minutes of Thanksgiving prep.

The Gravy Recipe for People Who Think They Can't Make Gravy • The 15-minute cure for the last 15 minutes of Thanksgiving prep.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Thanksgiving, but Were Popping Too Many Xanax to Remember Yes, it's panic-attack time again! Consider this your prescription.

Everything You Wanted to Know About Thanksgiving, but Were Popping Too Many Xanax to Remember • Yes, it's panic-attack time again! Consider this your prescription.

Burnt Offerings: My Epic Thanksgiving Fail, Courtesy of Endless Likes My obsessive quest for social media love almost cost me our house.

Burnt Offerings: My Epic Thanksgiving Fail, Courtesy of Endless Likes • My obsessive quest for social media love almost cost me our house.

How to Game the Thanksgiving Dessert Table How my holiday PTSD led to dessert-table domination.

How to Game the Thanksgiving Dessert Table • How my holiday PTSD led to dessert-table domination.

My Thanksgiving Hors d’Oeuvres + Cocktails Think of nibbles as diplomacy wrapped in puff pastry.

My Thanksgiving Hors d’Oeuvres + Cocktails • Think of nibbles as diplomacy wrapped in puff pastry.

Don't You Dare Reach for the Can of Jellied Cranberry Sauce Suddenly the once-ignored berry is strutting, posing, and is in absolutely everything.

Don't You Dare Reach for the Can of Jellied Cranberry Sauce • Suddenly the once-ignored berry is strutting, posing, and is in absolutely everything.

What to Cook and Bake in November Before Thanksgiving-Palooza hits, you need to eat.

What to Cook and Bake in November • Before Thanksgiving-Palooza hits, you need to eat.

Thanksgiving SOS/911/HELP! Cuz everybody screws up sometimes. Even us!

Thanksgiving SOS/911/HELP! • Cuz everybody screws up sometimes. Even us!

Comfort Soup Season is Baaaaaaack! Simmer, slurp, and sigh.

Comfort Soup Season is Baaaaaaack! • Simmer, slurp, and sigh.

Autumn Baking Series, Part 1: The Foundation Be a better baker, not a better recipe follower.

Autumn Baking Series, Part 1: The Foundation • Be a better baker, not a better recipe follower.

Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone? No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?

Where Have All the Cocoa Powders Gone? • No Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, or Nestlé? Climate, Disease, and Low Pay Are Killing Our Cocoa. What's next?

14 Telltale Signs a Recipe’s a Winner Really great writers make it look effortless.

14 Telltale Signs a Recipe’s a Winner • Really great writers make it look effortless.

Call Me Sugar Daddy A chorus of pretty young things flit through my days, demand endless indulgences, and take me for all I'm worth. And I couldn't be happier.

Call Me Sugar Daddy • A chorus of pretty young things flit through my days, demand endless indulgences, and take me for all I'm worth. And I couldn't be happier.

The Mohel of Mollusks One day in September, I found myself performing what I was fairly certain were brises on some 70 unsuspecting clams.

The Mohel of Mollusks • One day in September, I found myself performing what I was fairly certain were brises on some 70 unsuspecting clams.

Join me on Notes A new place for us to share ideas

Join me on Notes • A new place for us to share ideas

40 Watts Later Men buy cars, boats, and watches to make up for their, um, shortcomings. A certain someone purchase stoves.

40 Watts Later • Men buy cars, boats, and watches to make up for their, um, shortcomings. A certain someone purchase stoves.

Want to Change the World? Cook. The radical, tender power of making someone dinner.

Want to Change the World? Cook. • The radical, tender power of making someone dinner.

Tart of Gold: Spring Rhubarb Everything you wanted to know about rhubarb but were afraid to ask. (Oh wait, that's sex.) Eh, what the hell – I think rhubarb is sexy. There, I said it.

Tart of Gold: Spring Rhubarb • Everything you wanted to know about rhubarb but were afraid to ask. (Oh wait, that's sex.) Eh, what the hell – I think rhubarb is sexy. There, I said it.