Personal notebook
Josh Cherwinski
Recipes, notes, cost breakdowns, podcast picks, and New England opinions.
A personal notebook for things I cook, test, overthink, price out, and occasionally rant about.
Featured post
NotesWhy You Should Only Buy Seltzer from Job Lot If You Live in New England
A regional economic argument disguised as grocery advice.
Latest posts
The newest entries across the whole site, from recipes to travel math.
Sweet Potato Cheeseburger Pie
A cast-iron cheeseburger pie with a thick sweet potato crust, seasoned beef, melted cheese, and burger toppings added after baking.
Large Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
Six oversized blueberry muffins with the high-heat start that gives you the big domed top instead of flat grocery-store energy.
The Rain Towel Hack for Cleaning Pollen Off a Deck
If your Northeast pool-opening weekend lines up with a deck covered in pollen, use the overnight rain instead of fighting every spindle with a power washer.
Greek Chicken Sweet Potato Bowls
Greek-marinated chicken, roasted sweet potatoes, cucumber-tomato salad, feta, tzatziki, and pita in one solid meal-prep bowl.
Tesla MLB.TV Blackout Hack: How I Watch the Red Sox in Rhode Island
MLB.TV blocks the Red Sox on my phone in Rhode Island, but the exact same stream works fine through the Tesla browser.
Chewy Bagel Formula
A straightforward homemade bagel formula with the boil step that actually makes it taste like a bagel.
Recipes
Things I actually cook and want to find again.
Recipe
Sweet Potato Cheeseburger Pie
A cast-iron cheeseburger pie with a thick sweet potato crust, seasoned beef, melted cheese, and burger toppings added after baking.
Recipe
Large Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
Six oversized blueberry muffins with the high-heat start that gives you the big domed top instead of flat grocery-store energy.
Recipe
Greek Chicken Sweet Potato Bowls
Greek-marinated chicken, roasted sweet potatoes, cucumber-tomato salad, feta, tzatziki, and pita in one solid meal-prep bowl.
Money & Travel
Useful, practical, and occasionally a little too interested in the math.
What It Really Costs to Drive an EV in New England
Not financial advice. Just the math I use when someone asks whether the EV actually saved money.
The Best Way to Travel Using Credit Card Bonus Cycling
Not financial advice. Just the math and pacing I use to keep points useful instead of chaotic.
What the Carnival Drink Package Actually Costs
The sticker price is only the beginning. The useful number is the all-in cost per day and the break-even point against what you would have ordered anyway.
Podcast Episodes Worth Saving
Business mechanics, useful tech, markets, and mountain people doing unreasonable things.
Episode
FeaturedPhilip Carcia / Winter NH48
A very specific kind of New England madness: repeating the NH 48 in winter, over and over, with enough structure that it becomes less adventure story and more operating system.
Episode
FeaturedDirettissima / Andrew Drummond
The White Mountains as a route problem: peaks, logistics, pace, weather, and whether the whole thing holds together long enough to matter.
Episode
FeaturedLong Trail FKT / Tara Dower
A big Vermont trail effort with enough logistics, suffering, and Northeast specificity to earn a permanent spot on the shelf.
Episode
FeaturedRob Dyrdek / net worth, investments, health
Not saving this because of MTV. Saving it because Dyrdek talks like someone who turned his life into a dashboard: time tracking, business structure, investments, media economics, and health.
Show
highWaveform: The MKBHD Podcast
Useful when the conversation gets past gadget chatter and into products, platforms, Apple, Google, OpenAI, and what people may actually use.
Fun adventures
Hikes, rides, cruise stops, race weekends, and local outings worth remembering.
Adventure
Pemi Loop Notes
The sort of hike where logistics matter almost as much as fitness, especially if you want the day to feel hard but not stupid.
Adventure
Mambo Beach Without the Cruise Excursion
A practical way to do Mambo Beach from the cruise port without paying cruise-excursion prices.
Adventure
Rhode Island Beach / Cliff Jumping Ideas
A shortlist of warm-weather ideas that feel more local than formal, with enough context to avoid turning them into a dumb day.