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Serious Chocolate: Corn Syrup vs. HFCS

My bottle of Karo Light Corn Syrup lists HFCS as the second ingredient after corn syrup. Is there a brand of corn syrup that only has corn syrup???

aujahlisa at 4:25PM on 06/30/10

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia

plain or rolled around a little bit of cream cheese

aujahlisa at 4:17PM on 12/09/09

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Culinary Adventure Society

When I was a child, we were returning to Japan to visit a friend of my mom's while on the way back to the States for summer vacation.

We went to a noodle shop. I asked what one of the "bits" in my bowl was. Mom's friend told me "Ika" when I asked what ika was, she said "eat it and I'll tell you what it is" (aaah, the naivety of youth...)

So I ate it. When I was done and she told me squid, I let off with an "Ewwww!" and I cut off in the middle of that and said "Hey, wait. I liked that!"

Since then, I'd like to think that I'm more open to trying new foods before judging them.

aujahlisa at 4:40PM on 12/06/09

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Cook the Book: 'Urban Italian'

Leah Eskin has a variation of Pasta Carbonara that she wrote up in her food column (Chicago Tribune, Feb 2008) that she calls Runaway Pasta. She used pancetta, but I often use thick cut bacon. Either way, it's delicious

aujahlisa at 2:51PM on 03/30/09

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Interview with a Grocery Store Shoplifter

Ick!

Even if the original article had been presented as an Onion-style joke, I wouldn't have been amused.

aujahlisa at 11:05AM on 01/13/09

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks

Sirloin steak marinated in Burt Reynold's marinade ...yummmmm

aujahlisa at 5:23PM on 12/10/08

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Marvelous Mint Ice Cream

What kind of mint did you use? I tried to make a mint choc. chunk ice cream recently, but could only get spearmint. It didn't taste bad, it just wasn't the right flavor profile.

And I know what you mean about the green color. It should have been a total "Duh!", but now I know why Doublemint gum uses that shade of green for the package...

aujahlisa at 1:38PM on 06/05/08

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