Last night I took my homemade kimchi and I made it into a kimchi pancake, and it’s one of the best ideas I’ve had in a while. (Recipe via @ciaosamin in @nytcooking.)

Baker-Hansen date night last night thanks to the new weekend price fix offerings @jgilbertsomaha: diners get to choose from beef or salmon and the deal comes with an order of crab cakes and an insane, giant dessert (️ to see a massive piece of carrot cake.) Cruise on over to their page for all the…

I was really excited to try @ddomaha. The little Benson shop’s singular atmosphere and delicious, unusual coffee drinks didn’t disappoint. Read it at the link in my profile in my newest Takeout Chronicle.

Covid diary: fermenting and brewing. (Homemade kimchi, homemade toddy.)

We escaped to Mercury. #patiosonly #sociallydistantdrinking

I’ve missed you, @tinyhousebar.

This week's SBH newsletter: What the impending closure of the Dundee Dell, plus other restaurants like it, means for the future of the Omaha dining scene. Plus, my six favorite Omaha patios, and an endorsement for taking takeout outside. Subscribe to my free weekly email newsletter if you haven't already, and find the link to…

Tonight is 100 percent a night you’d generally have found me with a sweating glass of wine and a cheese plate on a patio. Second best option? Takeaway from @lolasomaha on your patio at home. Read my latest takeout chronicle at the link in my bio, and get yourself cheese, meat, wine and lots more…

The employees at @secretpenguin got the day off today in observance of Juneteenth. I’ll enjoy the day off, but I’m also spending time with this book, “The Cooking Gene,” by the James Beard Award-winning author Michael Twitty. There is so much I don’t know.

This week's SBH newsletter includes a new review, of @BestBurgerOmaha, in Florence, which lives up to its name. Plus learn about the precautions being put into place before the new Blackstone food hall opens its doors June 22. Find it all, plus the latest updates on our list of local black owned businesses and restaurants,…