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The Ten Most Recent Comments By alsafi

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

Er... the post says walnuts, but the pictures are garnished with pecan halves. Which is it?

From Talk

I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!

I also got the mushroom and taleggio version--I'm going to make it for Friday's supper. If I can find taleggio cheese, that is.

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Simple Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate souffle, mmm...

From Required Eating

Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'

Whole wheat, brown rice, and oats, in no particular order. It's become a lot easier to find whole wheat baked goods at the grocery store, and always makes a good loaf of home-baked bread. Plus the recent explosion of whole wheat pastas (and even whole wheat couscous at our Mediterranean grocery!) have been pretty good, I think. We also eat a lot of Japanese food, and thus a lot of brown Calrose rice. And now that I've found an oatmeal recipe I'll eat (apart from making granola out of it), we've been going through the big packages of rolled oats pretty quickly.

Responses to Comments by alsafi

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

i have to agree with you that most of the things there aren't worth the calories. everything looks good, but isn't, particularly.

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

They have homemade alfajores there, too, which I haven't seen in any other NYC bakeries.

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

Now we need a recipe!!

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

Pecan debating aside, those look like the most sinful concoctions ever...like you should have to go to confession after eating one. But it would be so worth it!

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

Also, two pecan halves would a whole pecan.

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

good catch, alsafi. old age catching up with me, I guess.

From Eating Out

Tisserie's Venezuelan Brownie: New York's Best

@alsafi: Ack, thanks for pointing that out; they're pecan halves!

From Talk

I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!

I had the taleggio and portabellas. The crust is the only part that was worth it to me (even at 3 hours prep time). I just found this post searching for the recipe because I wasn't smart enough to actually print it off.

From Talk

I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!

I made the recipe this past weekend and really liked it and I would like to make it again. But I failed to save the recipe and I can no longer access the recipe after completing the Test Kitchen survey. The link brings me a "Thanks for the completing the survey" page.

Does anyone know where I can find the recipe elsewhere on the web?

From Talk

I finally got it....the Cook's Illustrated Recipe to test!

I made the pizza bianca with olive oil, salt and rosemary. It came out great. I made it exactly as the instructions directed. I used a stand mixer, and I thought the dough was a little loose, but I loved the outcome.