Spilled Milk
Every week on Spilled Milk, writers/comedians Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton start with a food-related topic, from apples to winter squash, and run with it as far as they can go—and, regrettably, sometimes further.
Episodes
What the hell is butterscotch? What about molasses? And caramel!? Why can't Matthew ever remember? Today we introduce a new, extremely rare segment and go down some deep rabbit holes while we discuss that famous emollient: butterscotch. We look for ha'pennies and learn that some mysteries will remain mysterious.
Easy Homemade Butterscotch Sauce
Molly's butterscotch recipe
Travel back to a time when quiches were all the rage, when tomes were written about sauces and the phrase "bucket list" made no sense. Today we're using all the swag, sway and pull at our disposal to bring that distant gloop relative, quiche, back into fashion. To do so, we'll need to solve Molly and The Mysterious Disappearance of Both Pie Plates and confront some bizarre and unpleasant ingredients. WRONG!
Today we're smooth, chunky, painful and transformative as we blame other countries for this salad and debate horror movie villains. Scared of potato salad, Matthew embarks on a quest in order to avoid it and encounters Secret Miracle Whip, SpongeBob and listicles.
potato salad with sherry mustard vinaigrette from Smitten Kitchen
Molly's Now but Wow! - The short stories of Jamel Brinkley (try “Bartow Station,” from Witness
Today we've got the Midas touch as we recollect and recount past and present experiences with feeding our kids. We share dos and don'ts, philosophies of eating and why its important to salt babies. We play it cool through prescription muffins, the trendy and the expensive before exploring the division of responsibility and assigning Matthew some homework.
Hungry Monkey by Matthew Amster-Burton
Child of Mine by Ellyn Satter
We're back at these wine doppelgängers and still trying to decide when and where and why we'd drink these. We wonder about ships in bottles, definitions of Woodruff and coffee after dark before declaring our values and deciding everything is about context. Finally, we're gifted with more advent calendar insights. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
Molly's Now but Wow: Yotam Ottolenghi's herb pie
Today we enter rabbit holes upon rabbit holes as we try to grasp time and a whole lot of history. We endure fat in cans, word problems, quizzes and deep self-reflection as we debate where to place notches and who would win in Keebler v Ferrero. Finally, we present sad kid books and yet...another...new...segment.
Matthew's Bands: Early to the Airport and Twilight Diners
Join us on our expedition through the uncanny valley that is this beverage tasting experience. Listen as we google things. Imagine as we discuss freshly squished stuffs. Hear the screams of horror. Smell the weird odors and meet the creepy party people as we debate what Carl Jung is worth and uncover a three ringed secret.
Today we confess that we just aren't that into it as we debate who is the student and who is the teacher. What kind of school is this!? Matthew puts on his NPR voice and Pliny the Elder makes a cameo appearance along with horses (of courses). After encounters with knobbly roots and mischievous elves we eventually suggest our listeners do some work for us.
Matthew Now but Wow! - Hot and Sour...
Today we're covered in faux leather, QR codes and chalk dust as we try to remember why we are doing this. We share our turn ons and turn offs, why we enjoy the tight and the sprawling and what the most grave disservice to humanity is as we discuss restaurant menus. We encounter bloopies and too much mystery before feigning surprise and discovering the thief of joy.
Matthew's Bands: Early...
Today we're under the banner of taco as we eat delicious bags of garbage with while fondly remembering Colonel Mustard. Matthew plays Columbo and Molly gets the munchies as we discuss taco topology, surreal beans and Kermit conglomerates. Finally we celebrate and eulogize(?) Producer Abby's 10 years of hard labor.
Today we are sinful, decadent and irritating Molly as we talk tasty gloop desserts and boudoirs. We discuss mayoral duties, friar juice and the right temperature for serving revenge before learning about some suspicious substitutions.
Molly's Now but Wow! - The Last Repair Shop short film
The Food Podcast (also produced by Producer Abby)
Producer Abby's book recommendation newsletter: the rolling ladder
While talking tomatillos we blow minds and shatter worlds as we conclude that it's all about the journey, not the destination. (But really, what is at the end of Memory Lane?) We follow the lego brick road as we encounter two Sheens, three husks and wakes of vultures all in an attempt to define "slimy".
Easy Pressure Cooker Pork Chile Verde Recipe
Matthew's Now but Wow! - “Consider the Vulture,” by Meera Subraman...
Today we open up the encyclopedia to learn some "fun" facts about hot seeds as Molly goes deep into mustard territory while Matthew warily observes from afar. We're hot and cold, seedy and smooth, contagious and inspiring as we discuss equivalent sins, foot paste and our top 3 World's Fair inventions.
Pommery Moutarde de Meaux grainy mustard
Apparently Matthew and Molly accept vegetable cakes as a concept so they immediately dive right into a cheesecakecarrotcakechuckanutbayslice with conical rasps and dreams of strong greavy. After their sense of wonder is reawakened, they realize that carriot cake is very necessary for all such as delight therin and are so served.
Note: Producer Abby edited this episode under duress.
Close your windows and put on your mechanical gumshoes because we're talking Meringue today! We're totally stable as we recount the meringues of our youth, share our 7 minute in heaven dreams and (barely) avoid weeping all over the matrix before confessing our true thoughts on tasting menus.
Cocoa Nib Pavlovas from Orangette
Alice Medrich’s recipe for Meringue mushrooms
Chewy Gooey Crispy Crunchy by Alice Medrich
Today we confront our taste memories of steaming food to see if they deserve their bad reputation. We provide invisible jokes, fragrant scents and forgotten Simpsons characters to decide what steams and what doesn't. Not Available Elsewhere. Bears and School Principals Sold Separately.
Matthew's Now but Wow! - Cleat Cute, Meryl Wilsner
Matthew's Bands: Early to the Airport and Twilight...
Today we're sticky like Pooh Bear as we engage in some Christmas foreplay and hop on the swicy train. We like to bring about taste solutions through proprietary blends as we make prank calls without punch lines while tasting some Mike's hard honey. Eventually, we become overfull of feelings when Molly says the most disgusting thing of the past century.
Welcome to the Advent of Love! We are coping with our nostalgia for the holidays by eating Santa's face and recounting thinly veiled Christmas "miracles". We go nuclear as we open one of these live, on the air and are sucked back into Edwardian times. Watch out Bunnicula!
The Jacquie Lawson 2023 Edwardian Advent Calendar
Matthew's Bands: Early to the...
Today we confront painful memories and our mixed feelings about mixes as nail our 95 theses of corn muffins to your headphones. We love having our own personal muffin and debate steel vs stone as we play rubbity rubbity with The Muffin Man. Join us at Chowder Fest as we Make it Happen Everybody!
Matthew's Now but Wow! - Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Q. Sutanto
Grab some socks and listen up because we're finally doing it. Slick Spaghetti and Dick Trickle are here with Marco Polo and Goldilocks to discuss the memories, history and assumptions about spaghetti. Through injuries and mispronunciations we debate length, thickness and more before diving into the deep end.
Episode 136: Non-Tomato Pasta Sauces Pt. 1
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