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New York Times had Donut Pudding printed a few weeks ago. Made it twice and pased it around to friends. Made more raspberry jelly for the second batch and doubled the # of donuts for a really large pan. If you decide to make some kind of donut thing, don't use Dunkin Donuts. They don't have enough jelly in them unless you are driving and eating a donut with the other hand. You can order big ones from the Stop & Shop. Frozen dough, sure but they hold a lot of jelly and when you add cream, eggs and sugar. Yum.

Take a look at this New Funny Cadbury Eyebrow ad.
Just click on the link

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rliSb9l6E

Funny worth a look

...Robyn's last line, I mean.

There's a "policy of not blogging anything someone else has already blogged about"?

The blogosphere would be pretty small if every post had to be a scoop...

@ chefhorn....ding ding ding we have a winner or maybe is should be wiener considering the topic...oh and I'm from marketing and we are all shameless bastards that will figure out any and every way to promote or tie-in our products using whatever means necessary.

Too funny! I'm thinking of being a dork and printing this picture out to bring to the honey guy at my farmers market today.

I think keeping pb in the cupboard is okay as long as you always use a clean utensil to serve it - no cross contamination with other stuff.

Scary!

Oh, you're supposed to refrigerate pb? :O I think we've kept Goober (peanut butter with grape jelly) in the cupboard and ate through it over a span of a month. Wait, do you refrigerate Nutella? I don't...

The sad face of the rotating honey bear that we had in our microwave made me laugh the other day. My husband mimics what happened so well.

baha! totally reminds me of The Evil Monkey!

Kuma's has really gone downhill. It's not just the wait, or even the replacement of the delicious hand cut fries with frozen waffle fries, even the burgers have deteriorated in quality. They lost one of their chefs (the guy who did the Fu Machu burger, hence it no longer being on the menu). Things haven't been the same since. The last two times I've gone in there the burger was over cooked (I order medium rare and there wasn't a hint of pinkness), and so over salted that I literally felt ill by the time I was done eating it.
Damn shame this happened to a place that just two years ago I would have sworn up and down was the best burger in Chicago, and one of the best in the country.

The pretzel roll *makes* the burger. It's fantastic.

@Lvn4life: I understand your concern about pretzel rolls and ordinarily I'm not a huge fan. But at Kuma's, I think the extra heft provided by a pretzel roll is necessary to handle the burger and toppings.

@Chefhorn: The homemade chips are better than the waffle fries, but, and this could be simply because of the bliss the burger provides, the waffle fries are surprisingly good - crisp outside, soft middle. I'd be surprised if they're using a crappy brand of frozen fries

@happyscrappy: Agreed 100%. The patty itself is very good, but if there's a plain burger anywhere worth the kind of wait normally required at Kuma's.

@jjchampion: That's surprising you've gotten overcooked burgers consistenly and mine have always been done correctly. Maybe they've mastered cooking rare burgers but have trouble with other temperatures. How are you ordering your burgers?

Pointy, I believe you're being sarcastic, but just in case you aren't, I'll answer your question. Surely you can find something you might like here -- even if it's only from what you might dream up on the "build your own" board. Also, in my visits I've not once been stuck in traffic (other than maybe for a few minutes at the Ballard bridge waiting for a boat to go through.) Lastly, I just ask that they don't move to Belltown :)

Stushi, as is the case with almost all great establishments, they can get very busy. I try to go when I imagine not a lot of people are there. It also depends on if they've just been written up. (Like the recent Seattle Times piece, the article here, the Food Network praise, and what may be pending on epicurious.com) Basically LL survives on word of mouth. Even if that mouth is full and all the person can do is moan their approval :)

i adore white castle cheeseburgers. period.