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Place Setting from Hell
I love this drawing, but in fairness, what's so confusing about fancy place settings? Doesn't everyone know by now that you just use utensils from the outside in?
In Videos: Dogs Baking Bread
I loved those dogs when I was a kid. I will always have a soft spot for Weimareiners as a result. Even though they didn't preheat the oven.
In Videos: Twilight...With Cheeseburgers
@KarynMC: Yeah, that was my thought. But I had to laugh at this.
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Place Setting from Hell
!roboppy: Me neither, but in case we ever do, that's how it works :)
Place Setting from Hell
I love this drawing, but in fairness, what's so confusing about fancy place settings? Doesn't everyone know by now that you just use utensils from the outside in?
In Videos: Dogs Baking Bread
I loved those dogs when I was a kid. I will always have a soft spot for Weimareiners as a result. Even though they didn't preheat the oven.
In Videos: Twilight...With Cheeseburgers
@KarynMC: Yeah, that was my thought. But I had to laugh at this.
Cook the Book: 'Beyond the Great Wall'
When I was in college, I spent a summer teaching in a rural village near the Sichuan/Yunnan border. On my first night, I was invited to dinner in a family home, where they served us the local specialty: big thick hunks of pure pork fat. I was reading Moby Dick at the time so I tried to pretend it was like the whale blubber Ishmael was so keen on, but I couldn't swallow it and ended up hiding the whole thing under my rice.
Mixed Review: King Arthur Flour Blueberry Sour Cream Scone Mix
Although I would not buy these mixes, I just want to say that I always enjoy reading these reviews. It would be fun to see more side-by-side comparisons of box mixes versus scratch recipes, though, especially in terms of price and time and effort involved.
What Do You Like to Read When Eating Solo?
I love to read about food while eating, and I eat most of my meals alone (not as sad as it sounds!). My favorite dining companion is Laurie Colwin - both her fiction and her food writing are delicious.
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
My aunt makes the most amazing flourless chocolate cake. It's like divine pudding and it's even better warm.
Valentine's Day Giveaway: Macarons from Itzy Bitzy Patisserie
Dark chocolate cookie with salted caramel filling.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
When I was a kid, my school bus used to take us past someplace that smelled like Cheerios, which was delicious. This was in Buffalo, NY, but Google is not helping me figure out what this place might have been.
Cook the Book: 'The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook'
I'm not sure this counts, but I love baba ganoush - especially from the Wegmans' salad bar.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
The corn bread stuffing sounds delicious.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
Pumpkin pie brulee!
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
The Cranberry, Pear, and Ginger chutney sounds delicious - I've never actually had chutney, but I love those three things, and it would certainly be better than the stuff shaped like the can I'll be getting this year.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
The Pumpkin Pie Brulee sounds amazing.
Sweet Tweaks Pumpkin Sponge Cake Round-Up: Cast Your Votes Now!
I vote for Pumpkin Sponge Cake with Salted Butter Caramel!
Korean Corn Ice Cream Novelty Fails
Oh my goodness, I miss the corn ice cream novelties I used to eat in Beijing. Those didn't have the chocolate shell or whatever that is, though - just mildly corn-flavored ice cream wrapped in something like a Communion wafer. On a stick!
Cook the Book: 'The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread'
I'm terrible at making cookies, but I do have a recipe for molasses cookies that always comes out beautifully, so those are my go-to when I get the urge to bake.
Cook the Book: 'The Shun Lee Cookbook'
Roast chicken and chocolate cake.
Win Fuchsia Dunlop's 'Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper'
I love any kind of boiled dumplings and there was this one restaurant in the Hongmiao district of Beijing that had the most amazing gong bao tofu - it was fried and crispy, with spicy sauce and crunchy peanuts. They also did a really good basi (caramelized) banana.
Cook the Book: 'Sweety Pies'
When I was ten I baked my first pie with blueberries we'd picked on a hike in the mountains. Unfortunately I tripped over a stone carrying my basket and spilled the berries. I was able to pick most of them up, but when my family tried the pie that night we found it was full of little white stones.
Cook the Book: Serves One
Whenever my roommate goes out of town, I make pancakes - which is sort of silly, since there are always leftovers, but they heat up fine in the toaster.
Do You Let Your Babysitter Order Pizza While You're Out?
I was probably about sixteen when I put a frozen pizza in the oven on a plastic plate. (The baby had cried a lot and I was harried and distracted and deeply, deeply stupid.) After awhile I noticed the smell of burning plastic and found that the plate had melted all over the oven. I scraped it off the rack and the oven floor, opened all the windows, turned on the fan, and ate the pizza.
I probably could have handled answering the door, but I'm not making any promises.
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!roboppy: Me neither, but in case we ever do, that's how it works :)