Cafeteria's OpenOff-the-cuff cooking, out-loud thinking, and a standing invitation to weigh in.2026-09-05T00:00:00Zhttps://cafeterias-open.pages.dev/The cookI only buy chicken one way now — and it cut my plastic way down2026-09-05T00:00:00Zhttps://cafeterias-open.pages.dev/posts/only-buy-chicken-this-way-now/I switched how I buy chicken to cut down on plastic packaging, and it's stuck. Here's the change and why. Curious whether you've done anything similar.There's a frozen duck breast staring at me. What would you do?2026-09-04T00:00:00Zhttps://cafeterias-open.pages.dev/posts/frozen-duck-breast-help/One lonely duck breast in the freezer and no plan. I've got ideas but I want yours first — tell me how you'd cook it.Weeknight White Bean Soup (the pantry saved me again)2026-09-03T00:00:00Zhttps://cafeterias-open.pages.dev/posts/weeknight-white-bean-soup/A brothy, garlicky white bean soup built almost entirely from cans and odds and ends. Twenty minutes, one pot, endlessly swappable.Brown Butter Banana Bread for the three sad bananas on my counter2026-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://cafeterias-open.pages.dev/posts/brown-butter-banana-bread/The browner the bananas, the better this gets. Brown butter takes it from good to why-is-this-gone-already.