How did you develop a spicy tolerance? Through a mentor? By force-feeding yourself jalapenos?
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Longtime Serious Eats friend Ree of The Pioneer Woman is already responsible for some of our favorite recipes, most of which are butter-laden (sweet potatoes, creamed spinach, and chocolate sheet cake). Her new site Tasty Kitchen will be yet another drool-inspiring distraction. The recipe social network allows home cooks to share recipes, rate them, and add notes. Looks like a happy place and really easy to use: just search by recipe or category, and if you want to share your own, join the oven mitt-wearing fraternity by registering here....
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Ree over at Pioneer Woman Cooks cooked up some mean mashed potatoes for a pre-Thanksgiving post. Sigh. Mashed potatoes. They’re as much a part of Thanksgiving dinner as pecan pie and Uncle Festus.But mashed potatoes are labor-intensive, and on Thanksgiving Day, that’s not necessarily an asset. The wonderful thing about these mashed potatoes is, they can be made ahead of time, then warmed in the oven when you’re ready. This has made a world of difference in my Thanksgiving Day sanity, peace, blood pressure readings, and hormone levels. The fact that they’re wonderfully delicious is simply the icing on the cake. So let’s go make ‘em. Ree's mashed potatoes contain—get this—butter, half and half, and cream cheese....
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