A proper Philly Cheesesteak is one of those sandwiches that ruins you for ordinary food. Savory beef, caramelized onions, soft peppers, and melted cheese all packed into a toasted hoagie roll — it is genuinely one of the greatest things a human being can eat. The problem is that thinly sliced ribeye is expensive and… 

Pull a mozzarella stick apart and watch that cheese stretch into a long, glorious, molten strand — honestly, few things in this world are more satisfying. I made my first batch of homemade mozzarella sticks crispy from scratch about two years ago and immediately questioned why I had ever paid restaurant prices for them. They…