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From Required Eating

Why We Should Be Eating Insects

Another way to preserve the environment without resorting to icky bug eating is to turn our appetites toward our friends and neighbors, as described in the groundbreaking new memoir "My Year of Cannibalism".

beagle72 at 2:41PM on 03/14/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

Boiled water! But not anymore, thanks to the rigorous writers at Cook's Illustrated:

"Like many people, I enjoy the moist aroma and sinus-soothing vapors from a pot of boiling water. But it is often difficult to get a roiling boil just the way you remember it as a child. In my quest to perfect boiled water I began by collecting a dozen different recipes ranging from family hand-me-downs to restaurant standbys. But none of these recipes produced a water boil precisely as I remember it."

beagle72 at 2:41PM on 03/10/08

Responses to Comments by beagle72

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

@wookie - I haven't been able to find White Lily flour in MI (Ann Arbor) either and we have a lot of gourmet markets! I'm thinking I may have to order online. Cake flour can be substituted or Arrowhead Mills makes a white pastry flour which is suitable, as well.

frederika at 11:17PM on 03/16/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

Right now, it's also any yeast bread. I can make a quick bread fine, but I am just finally getting over my fear of baking with yeast.

blondiebrownie at 10:54PM on 03/16/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

I second Baha...

radley24 at 10:17PM on 03/16/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

@heartnibbler have you tried the no knead bread? NY Times Recipe
It's supposedly changed alot of people's lives. o.o

cafepeach at 9:56PM on 03/16/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

@BaHa.......Good one!

crazyspice at 11:42AM on 03/15/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

@ Chew....I always burn the Jiffy Pop. >:(

crazyspice at 11:39AM on 03/15/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

I'm with Wookie, good Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. You'd think someone who goes by Breadchick and writes a blog pretty much devoted to breads of all types could master these but something happens when I make them. No matter the recipe, how little or much I handle the dough, mine turn out to be hockey pucks...

breadchick at 10:45AM on 03/15/08

From Talk

I never knew ____ could be so complicated!

Baking bread

heartnibbler at 10:07AM on 03/15/08

From Required Eating

Why We Should Be Eating Insects

But do they taste like pork? If not, FAIL. :)

Rich at 3:53PM on 03/14/08

From Required Eating

Why We Should Be Eating Insects

I don't know... with some insects it could work; for example, I really don't imagine that the texture of certain grubs would be significantly different from that of shrimp, if they were prepared in the same way.

mongoose at 3:42PM on 03/14/08