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Cookbook for an 11 year old?
She might be on the older side for this cookbook, but when I was a kid I absolutely loved this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Wizardry-Kids-Kenda-Williams/dp/0812044096
What would you eat for 30 days?
Cheese pizza three times a day, definitely. Probably cheeseburgers (Shake Shack!) as well. If hunger were not an issue I could eat ice cream, brownies, or oreos with milk 3x daily as well.
Anyone use pumpkin (or apple sauce) and oil to replace butter?
I usually use 1-2 T of oil or butter and substitute yogurt for the rest of the fat in the recipe.
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Shake Shack iPhone App: Free and Useful
I have been waiting for this glorious day for a very, very long time.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
She might be on the older side for this cookbook, but when I was a kid I absolutely loved this book: http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Wizardry-Kids-Kenda-Williams/dp/0812044096
What would you eat for 30 days?
Cheese pizza three times a day, definitely. Probably cheeseburgers (Shake Shack!) as well. If hunger were not an issue I could eat ice cream, brownies, or oreos with milk 3x daily as well.
Anyone use pumpkin (or apple sauce) and oil to replace butter?
I usually use 1-2 T of oil or butter and substitute yogurt for the rest of the fat in the recipe.
Best Halloween Candy?
As a peanut-allergic kid it was always so disappointing when a house had only peanut candies to give out.
I like the kit-kats that come in 3 different flavors: milk, white, and dark chocolate.
What's your spice aversion?
Fenugreek is gross. I can tolerate rosemary, but only in small quantities. My roommates sometimes take the liberty of sprinkling white pepper on my food when we eat together. No thank you.
Gluten Free Dessert Ideas?
I like to bake brownies and substitute white rice flour for the all purpose flour. They were famous among my gluten-free ex's family.
Carrot cake also adapts well to being made with a gluten free flour blend.
The Most Unhealthy Thing You've Ever Made
Once I baked a chocolate sheet cake, cut it into slices, hollowed out a hole in the center of each slice, stuffed with the hole with cream cheese frosting, dipped the slice in pancake batter, and then deep fried it. A close runner-up for unhealthiest item ever would have been another item I made that same night, which was double-stuf oreos dipped in leftover chocolate cake batter and deep fried.
It was all delicious, by the way.
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
Lately I've been dreaming of pumpkin pie.
Freefoods NYC: the food snob
I used to place catering/lunch orders with FreeFoods all the time pre-recession and never had anything but exceptional service. Was Michael the manager you talked to? He's super-nice and I recommend asking to speak with him if you had a bad experience.
Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 87: Do Weights Help You Lose Weight?
My advice would be to start by buying some sessions with a trainer. They will show you how to use machines and free weights effectively and safely. My trainer has a fancy scale that measures body fat %, which can be a helpful measure of weight loss (if you are gaining muscle and losing fat, your weight might stay the same even as you shrink.) Buy 10 hour-long sessions and go twice a week. Plus, they stretch/massage you at the end!
My other suggestion is Jillian Michaels' 30 Day Shred video. It's only 20 minutes, but it leaves me sweating and sore for days afterwards! A great way to get in a quick toning workout.
brooklyn candies
Joyva Corp. has been making candy for over 100 years, and they are headquartered in Brooklyn. I'm not sure where the candy is actually produced, but I think it is in NYC. I'm not a huge fan, but I know a bunch of people that really like the sesame crunch and chocolate-coverered marshmallow bars. You can find their products at Economy Candy on Rivington St.
New York City Wine and Food Festival: Ticket Giveaway, The Grand Tasting
Keller, Chang, Vongerichten, Boulud, Matsuhisu, Ducasse, Barber, Ripert... I could go on. The list for the Grand Tasting looks pretty good too!
Inexpensive restaurant suggestions for Saturday ...
Mmm, Doughnut Plant...
Pho Grand is also on Grand Street, about a 10 min walk away: Yelp: Pho Grand
Meet Your Farmers: Joe Nicholson Jr. of Red Jacket Orchards, New York
Their tart cherry juice is a revelation.
How to Make a Pizookie, or a Pizza-Cookie
My favorite summertime dessert as a kid was "fruit pizza." A gigantic pizza-sized sugar cookie (probably 12 inches in diameter), with cream cheese frosting and slices of fresh fruit, usually berries & kiwi. My mom and I could polish one off in 2 days. Amazing!
HELP: Chocolate Cake challenge (Need Flourless Vegan recipe)
Is your friend Zooey Deschanel, by any chance?
Mint Ice Cream Recommendations?
The new Haagen-Daz Five mint flavor is AMAZING. No chocolate chips, but it's easy enough to add your own good quality chocolate pieces or hot fudge sauce, cookies, etc.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
Most of my baking efforts are triumphs, but there have been quite a few disasters in the mix as well...
Baking disaster: In highschool I auctioned off 2 homemade pies for a school fundraiser. I made my grandmother's mile high apple pie recipe, complete with slicing the apples super thin and placing them in a decorative pattern on top. I completely forgot to add sugar! The winners ended up with two storebought pies instead.
Baking triumph: I recently made a banana cake with coconut cream cheese frosting in a kitchen with absolutely no measuring equipment, no teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, nothing. I measured everything by sight. It was delicious!
Hoagie Haven in Princeton, NJ: Phat Ladies, Chocolate Cheesesteaks, and Happy Undergrads
@drmoze, that is exactly what I did last Saturday! It was so worth it. The cheesesteak was delicious. I washed it down with a Tastykake blueberry pie from Wawa.
need vegetarian menu for meat eaters
Seconding, thirding, fourthing etc. vegetarian chili. I am in the same situation as you, and I made chili for my parents this weekend. It had chickpeas, carrots, zucchini, peppers, onions, tomato, lots of cumin & some cinnamon, served with shredded cheese and sour cream. My dad, who is one of the biggest meat-n-potatoes guys I know, said very enthusiastically that it was delicious!
Abma's Farm Market & Nursery in Wyckoff, New Jersey
Where are the pictures of the fat bunnies??
Home Cheese Maker and Bread Baker Looking For Like-Minded...
Fresh baked bread and homemade cheese, eh? Too bad you are not my preferred gender, otherwise I would marry you.
What's been your most sucessful office treat?
My chocolate chip cookies are a HUGE hit at the office. I use the Joy of Cooking recipe and sub in milk chocolate chips. Refrigerate the dough overnight, and then unwrap a bunch of caramel-filled Hershey's kisses and make dough balls with the kisses in the center. Bake at the temperature directed in the recipe, but for approx. 8 minutes. You want them to be slightly underbaked.
Inspired by the famous NYTimes cookie recipe that came out last year:
I still remember my first bite of ...
Durian. There wasn't a second bite, but the taste lingered for the rest of the day...
Shake Shack iPhone App: Free and Useful
Nice.
I've been using the Shake Shack Dashboard Widget on my Mac for years. This is a good supplemental.
Shake Shack iPhone App: Free and Useful
This will come in handy with their new store in Miami Beach. Can't wait...been drooling for months now.
Greek Yogurt - Recommendations?
I stumbled upon this thread and wanted you all to know that Costco now sells Fage!
How to Make a Pizookie, or a Pizza-Cookie
Pizookies are the bomb! by the way, I found a place that sells the 6-inch deep dish pans... here is the link: http://www.chefscatalog.com/product/24715-Chicago-Metallic-Personal-Deep-Dish-Pizza-Pans.aspx What I'm looking for are the smaller pans that BJ's uses for the Mini Trio Pizookie platter. I'm guessing they are about 4 inches in diameter. I'd feel alot less guilty eating one that size... :)
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
We have loved everything we've made from the River Cottage Family Cookbook, which is not goofy and kid-ish but is appropriately simple for younger chefs: http://www.amazon.com/River-Cottage-Family-Cookbook/dp/1580089259
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Alice Waters' Fanny at Chez Panisse is wonderful, too.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs
by Rozanne Gold, Phil Mansfield (Illustrator)
What would you eat for 30 days?
Black beans & yellow rice w/ tostones or boiled yucca...
What would you eat for 30 days?
Salmon nigiri with ginger and wasabi. Give it to me baby. I can't get enough!
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
thanks mama! i never knew i could do this: ♠♣♥♦☤☟✒☃
or this: ₧ ₫ ₣
or this! ➸➹➽↵⇒
this is $‰§¶‡ing awesome.
i ♥ you, you make the day ☀!!!
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
I second the recommendations of Emeril's "There's A Chef In My Soup" and "There's A Chef In My Kitchen." They have been my go-to gifts for kids who have a little experience with chopping, measuring, and everyone has loved them. And the recipes are very good too - the family will appreciate them.
I don't yet have the Pioneer Woman's cookbook, but I've been a fan of her blog, and I agree that the photos and friendly chatter will make it a safe bet too.
What's your spice aversion?
CUMIN... after 3 weeks in India a few years ago, i developed an aversion to cumin after a whole week straight of eating food seasoned with cumin. Everything tasted the same.
Now, I can't even smell it at the supermarket.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
I'd consider How to Cook Without a Book by Pam Anderson.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
I would highly recommend Emeril Lagasse's "There's a chef..." series of books. Very well written for kids and adults.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Annabel Karmel also has some great books - I believe she also has one for older children.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
When I was younger I used to cook and bake with my friend and we used her copy of the better homes and gardens cookbook
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
I just got my daily e-mail from ecookbooks.com, and included in it today was The Silver Spoon for Children: Favorite Italian Recipes. Here's part of what the e-mail said: "The Silver Spoon for Children is one of the best books geared to children in the kitchen that we have seen! Specially adapted from the bestselling classic, The Silver Spoon, this edition presents more than 40 quick, wholesome and easy-to-make Italian recipes that children aged 8 and above will love to cook and eat. For more information, and two recipes from The Silver Spoon for Children, visit our special webpage here: http://www.ecookbooks.com/t-Silver-Spoon-for-Children-Phaidon.aspx "
I checked the webpage out and the recipes sounded simple and delicious, the illustrations are very cute and instructive. Check it out. Good luck!
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Thanks PoorOldMama.
I ❤ you too! ☺
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
@CJ McD--I have magical powers!! Or I go to the top of my screen and click on Edit-down to Special Characters. Then I can add all sorts of cool things--☃☞✂✌. (When in the characters section go to miscellaneous and one must choose the item and then hit insert).❉❅❇. Have fun. (I actually think its a bit like being a 5th grade girl again and making hearts over your i's).
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
my daughter started off with teens cook, it's written by teenage sisters one a vegetarian... and their mom is a cook. http://www.amazon.com/Teens-Cook-How-What-Want/dp/1580085849
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Williams Sonoma has a great kids cookbook available -- it's grown-up looking, but with kid-friendly language.
If she's really into cooking, the Martha Stewart Cooking School cookbook has wonderful step-by-step photos.
Photos are the key at that age - they're super helpful and reassuring to new cooks who aren't quite sure what or how something should look like after mixing, baking, etc.
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
Thank PoorOldMama. :o))))
Brainstormer of food nerd? *L*
Now a question for you from the technically challenged one-
How did you do the "heart"?
Cookbook for an 11 year old?
I started with the Encyclopedia Brown cookbook. It has stories, explains the science a bit (a hit if she likes that) and the recipes are easy-nummy.
Reading and cooking!!! Amazing :)
What would you eat for 30 days?
@salpico - that sounds amazing...I haven't had an egg cream in far too long. I'm off to buy some U-bet & Seltzer!
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I have been waiting for this glorious day for a very, very long time.