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definitely my mixer.

chocolate melty cakes, done with good quality bitter chocolate

prettiest cookies I've ever helped make - pizzelles. Sadly I haven't got my own pizzelle press so I can't make em on my own.

Best story we have is of a thanksgiving when I had two british people to cook for - my boyfriend at the time, and my roommate at the time. As I hadn't cooked for that many people in a long time, I had forgotten to buy a few supplies.

We had the day before off so we went on a day trip to ikea in another city, assuming that the 24 hour grocery stores would still be open 24 hours and therefore open when we got home. We got home at 7. Nothing was open. We ended up scrounging corner stores for SOMETHING to replace the missing ingredients and then rummaging through the freezer for anything.

It wasn't a traditional dinner (other than the turkey) but we made it work somehow.

PWs is my favourite food blog - though I also am enjoying fotocuisine & bakerella

Omelettes/scrambled eggs with whatever I have in the fridge that can be put together flavour wise. If I'm making it, it's more like scrambled eggs. If I'm really lazy and con the husband into putting it together for me ;) it's all pretty and folded of an omelette.

reading a teaspoon of salt as a tablespoon when trying a new recipe of buttermilk biscuits, a food item my husband at the time hadn't ever tried.

Trying to convince him that no, they're actually GOOD normally, took a bit.

An entire tray of nanaimo bars went down the stomach of our family springer spaniel. She never stole food from the counter again - the nanaimo bar chocolate was weak enough to not hurt her (honestly I don't really think there's any real chocolate in that stuff across the top of the storebought bars), but enough to make her spend an unhappy night staying very close to the back door.