...The hot dogs being longer than the buns they were on, I was able to try a bite of just weiner. They were good—Psilakis' recipes both—and possessed the texture of homemade sausages. But, again, they kind of clashed with the remedially lowf-fi food "comfortability" of the toppings, especially the Chicago dog, which excelled on the toppings but were better suited for a Sabrett's.... [cont.]

...But when I know I’m just cooking for one, it cuts down my ingredients portions by at least half, which means I usually will have half boxes of uncooked this and half bags of raw that are not just left, but left undone. Although inconvenient, storage-wise, this predicament also forces me to be creative on a whim to make good use of these yet unused ingredients, especially the perishables. [cont.]