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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

Oo, mint jelly too. Not so much the lamb however...

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

portugese sweet bread, and candy! yum.

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Corn syrup-is it really that bad? Replacements?

I generally find HFCS bad because it makes high-sugar low-nutrition food super cheap and available. It's a big part of the reason that 2,000 calories of snack cakes are cheaper than 2,000 calories of healthy foods, and thus why Americans are so fat. The fructose content makes it tastes sweeter than regular sugar or corn syrup, and alters what tastes we find normal. If its on the label of a food, its a good marker for over processed junk food. Corn syrup in and of itself isn't any more evil than refined sugar.

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Appliances in a dorm room...

There are 2 major types of smoke detectors - one detects smoke, so you'll want to avoid burning stff; and the other detects heat/pressure with a breakable element, so you'll want to avoid turning your dorm room into a super-heated sauna or throwing hot pancakes at the detector.

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Cook the Book: Simple Chocolate Mousse

chocolate cake!

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Overnight Macaroni and Cheese: Have You Tried It?

I tried this recipe as my first foray outside of blue-box mac and cheese. No pre-boiling, and it came out delicious!

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Cook the Book: Black Bottom Cupcakes

Mmm... any cupcake with butter cream frosting is delicious

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Cook the Book: Chocolate Sablés

Ooh chicken in mole sauce is delicious too

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Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

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Cook the Book: The Serious Eats Chocolate Lover's Library

Now that I think of it, I usually don't cook with chocolate. It's just so perfect in it's native state (chocolate bars grow on trees right?) I'd have to say my favorite chocolate recipe is this one, for hershey's chocolate cake. It doesn't make anything spectacular, but when I made it for a class event in 4th grade, it was the first time I realized that you could make cake without using a box.

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

We have a winner!

And it's ... QUEENHERM. Someone from Serious Eats will be contacting you shortly for shipping info.

Thanks to everyone who commented!

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

My favorite food would be baked ham....thanks!

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

My favorite Easter (or any holiday, really) food is my mom's cheese potato casserole.

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

Chocolate. (We have either ham or turkey, whichever we have not had most recently. Never lamb, which my family won't eat.)

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

My family likes ham on Easter so I never get what I want: Roast Lamb with Mint Jelly.

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Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

We always serve ham at Easter.