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Travelers: What's Your Favorite Airport Food?

I live on water almonds, and banana chips with the occasional granola bar thrown in. I guess I never consider eating in an airport.

From Drinks

Tasting the Range: Bushmills Irish Whiskey

I like Bushmills, their annoying "Since Way Back" campaign turns me off.

From Recipes

Hummus

A pinch of cayenne, that's the only extra thing i would add. This is a really good recipe.

From Sweets

Sweet Technique: How To Make Pumpkin Puree

I enjoy the time and process of preparing my own ingredients, and I've made fresh pumpkin about 5 times with several varieties of pumpkin.

I find that once the homemade pumpkin puree is cooked/baked in a pie/bread/soup doesn't taste much different from store bought. Don't let this stop you from trying yourself. I do suggest using a butternut squash in place of a pumpkin. It tastes better and has less fluid to drain.

You may wish to add an extra straining step. I usually put the scooped out roasted pumpkin in a colander over a layer of cheese cloth. After a few hours and some pushing you'll significantly improve the pumpkin puree.

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Caramelized Onion Focaccia

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Sesame Cookie

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Nutella Dream Cookie

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Pistachio Apricot Christmas Cookies

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Recent Favorites

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New York Style Pizza

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Pickled Grapes with Citrus and Spice

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Sunday Dinner: No-Holds-Barred Lasagna Bolognese

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Apricot Cranberry Pan de Higo

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Recent Polls

From Serious Eats: New York

Cantaloupe Alone answered "H&H" to What's Your Favorite Bagel In New York?

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Cantaloupe Alone answered "Hot coffee" to This Morning: Hot Coffee or Iced Coffee?

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Cantaloupe Alone answered "5-10 years old" to When Did You Learn to Cook?

From Serious Eats: New York

Cantaloupe Alone answered "I never want to see or hear about a goddamn cupcake again." to Do You Care About Cupcakes?

Recent Quizzes

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Cantaloupe Alone got 55% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Pumpkins?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 62% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Soda?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 66% correct on How Much Do You Know About Watermelons?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 75% correct on How Much Do You Know About Regional Sandwiches?

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Recent Comments

From Serious Eats

Travelers: What's Your Favorite Airport Food?

I live on water almonds, and banana chips with the occasional granola bar thrown in. I guess I never consider eating in an airport.

From Drinks

Tasting the Range: Bushmills Irish Whiskey

I like Bushmills, their annoying "Since Way Back" campaign turns me off.

From Recipes

Hummus

A pinch of cayenne, that's the only extra thing i would add. This is a really good recipe.

From Sweets

Sweet Technique: How To Make Pumpkin Puree

I enjoy the time and process of preparing my own ingredients, and I've made fresh pumpkin about 5 times with several varieties of pumpkin.

I find that once the homemade pumpkin puree is cooked/baked in a pie/bread/soup doesn't taste much different from store bought. Don't let this stop you from trying yourself. I do suggest using a butternut squash in place of a pumpkin. It tastes better and has less fluid to drain.

You may wish to add an extra straining step. I usually put the scooped out roasted pumpkin in a colander over a layer of cheese cloth. After a few hours and some pushing you'll significantly improve the pumpkin puree.

From Talk

Going to Germany! What to eat there and to bring back?

Go to a beer hall, eat a pretzel. Eat all the flake pastry stuff you see, and as much pork as you can stomach. I've seen die hard vegans break and eat bacon in Germany.

From Talk

your priciest meal?

Sushi at Jewel Bako or steaks, shrimp, and creamed spinach at Peter Lugers. Both are worth while.

From Talk

Most Beautiful Thing In Your Kitchen

26 foods illustrated with embroidery representing all letters of the alphabet, made by my mother in 1978.

From Talk

What makes a food blog successful?

Nice photos are necessary.

I prefer when the blog not be filled with cupcake, macaron, whoopie pie and cakecrap on a stick recipes. I also prefer when the blog isn't decorated with pastels, or covered in polka dots, lace, stripes teakettles, or above sweets.

From Talk

When I leave NYC, my kitchen will have ...

3 sinks, a double oven, a proper extra freezer, more places to sit and GARBAGE DISPOSAL.

From Sweets

Snapshots from Norway: Kvikk Lunsj, More Than a Norwegian Kit Kat Bar

Crazy I wrote about Finnish candy yesterday: http://cantaloupealone.blogspot.com/2011/03/salmiakpastiller.html

I am in love with Kit Kat Chunky from the UK only!

Also there are 6 trillion flavors out there that we can't access. Why can't American's Kit Kat's catch up!!!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/friedtoast/sets/72157594224722117/with/4406666979/

From Serious Eats

The Rachael Ray Hot Dog Bracket: Our Search for the Best Hot Dog in the U.S.

I see that Michigan and Ohio are dominating in the MidWest bracket already, but I'd like to add a shout out for Tony Packo's.

From Serious Eats: New York

This Week in 'New York Times' Food News

Hello cookies. Its like a Christmas dream come true to have the New York Times print my cookie recipe. Its the one featured above, Piparkakut.

I think it was on Photograzing first!

From Serious Eats

Gift Guide: For the Baker

You can get that bakery thread at most bakeries for like 25 cents for multiple yards. Granted not in all the cute colors.

From Talk

What to do with multigrain?

Grind it up a small amount in a coffee/spice grinder. Try adding it to flour for baking. Or use it to coat chicken/pork/fish/tofu for frying.

From Serious Eats

How to Make Dried Apple Chips

I made these once, tasted great, took a hour to make 2 trays of chips, about one apple's worth. I ate them in about 3 minutes.

From Serious Eats

The Crisper Whisperer: 5 Principles of Vegetable Stock (and Why You Should Care)

More reasons to love stock, it helps your scraps break down better once they hit the compost pile!

From Recipes

Peanut Butter-Chocolate Buckeyes

So dangerously addictive. Family folklore goes that every year someone steals a bunch of the family buckeyes adn hids them in coffee cans labeled "worms" or "bacon oil" so that they might go unnoticed for a week while the rest of the buckeyes where eaten within hours.

From Serious Eats

Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 137: Can Apple Eating Help My Diet?

My family is full of doctors and nurses. Apples were always considered healthy junk food as they have little nutritional value outside of fiber. Eating this amount of apples a day may give you some unpleasant digestive problems as well.

From Serious Eats

Spice Hunting: Mahlab

Yes, its about time someone spread the word. It makes baked goods taste wonderful in a way almost no one knows. A must have.

From Talk

a Trader Joe's Disappointment

I am a CSA veggie memeber so I go there to stock up on proteins sometimes (tofu, fish, beans etc) which works out pretty well. Coffee is a pretty good deal there. A few other items are about a dollar or more less too.

I find the chatty staff is actually nosy and sometimes obnoxious. I once had a clerk ask me if I owned a coffee grinder when buying whole beans. I thought it was ridiculous to suggest your customers don't know how to make their own coffee. He next picked on why I would be buying 6 cans of chickpeas. The staff needs to mind their own business. I shouldn't have to explain myself.

And finally beware of pseudo healthy and environmentally friendly products. They have some problems: http://chelseanow.com/articles/2010/08/25/news/doc4c7586c9aff4a967139997.txt

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Caramelized Onion Focaccia

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Sesame Cookie

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Nutella Dream Cookie

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Pistachio Apricot Christmas Cookies

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The meatiest pork dish of all time

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Pacific Oysters

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Barramundi

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Thurston's Jamaican Ginger Beer

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Cloud-Like Buttermilk Biscuit

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Big Guac-ing Sandwich

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Make a Steak Sandwich

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Fig Bars

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Baked Bone Stock

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The art of winter pizza making

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Oatmeal Cookie Overload

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Sarma Grapeleaves

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Homemade Vanilla Extract

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Venison Chili

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Jam Thumbprint Cookies

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Buckeyes

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Cardamon Spice Vegan Pumpkin Bread

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Almond Crust Apple Galette

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Roasting an Entire Pumpkin

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Pretty Plums

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Inside the world of a pickle jar

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Recent Favorites

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New York Style Pizza

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Pickled Grapes with Citrus and Spice

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Sunday Dinner: No-Holds-Barred Lasagna Bolognese

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Apricot Cranberry Pan de Higo

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Eggnog Fudge with White Chocolate and Walnuts

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Alton Brown's Roast Turkey

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Dinner Tonight: Roasted Tomato and Eggplant Soup

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Vanilla Ice Cream Without the Machine

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Chili for Chili Burgers, Chili Dogs, or Chili Fries

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Mini pumpkin pies in a whole wheat ginger crust

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Creative Wine Labels

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Rubik's Cube Sandwich

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Orange Tang Cupcakes

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Crepe Cake with Chocolate Meringue Frosting

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Limoncello frozen yogurt with blueberry sauce

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Chocolate Chip Pretzel Bars

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Polls

From Serious Eats: New York

Cantaloupe Alone answered "H&H" to What's Your Favorite Bagel In New York?

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone answered "Hot coffee" to This Morning: Hot Coffee or Iced Coffee?

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone answered "5-10 years old" to When Did You Learn to Cook?

From Serious Eats: New York

Cantaloupe Alone answered "I never want to see or hear about a goddamn cupcake again." to Do You Care About Cupcakes?

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone answered "Swiss" to What's Your Favorite Cheese on a Breakfast Sandwich?

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Cantaloupe Alone answered "Sausage" to What's Your Favorite Meat on a Breakfast Sandwich?

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Cantaloupe Alone answered "Wheat (or some seed-bearing) toast" to What's Your Favorite Bread for a Breakfast Sandwich?

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Cantaloupe Alone answered "Snickers: Betty White Tackled" to Which of These Was Your Favorite?

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Quizzes

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone got 55% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Pumpkins?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 62% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Soda?

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone got 66% correct on How Much Do You Know About Watermelons?

From Serious Eats

Cantaloupe Alone got 75% correct on How Much Do You Know About Regional Sandwiches?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 70% correct on How Much Do You Know About Spring Vegetables?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 75% correct on How Much Do You Know About Food Preservation?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 57% correct on How Much Do You Know About Chocolate Chip Cookies?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 33% correct on How Much Do You Know About Chocolate?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 37% correct on How Much Do You Know About Vegan Substitutes?

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Cantaloupe Alone got 62% correct on Winter Vegetables Quiz

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About Cantaloupe Alone

Website: http://cantaloupealone.blogspot.com/

Location: Brooklyn

About: recipes and design, all the time.

Favorite foods: Chickpeas

Last bite on earth: Lamb