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The Ten Most Recent Comments By fermezporte

From Required Eating

Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

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

fermezporte at 12:34PM on 03/19/08

From Required Eating

Serious Easter Artisanal Chocolate Egg Giveaway

portugese sweet bread, and candy! yum.

fermezporte at 10:32PM on 03/18/08

From Talk

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.

fermezporte at 9:28AM on 03/12/08

From Talk

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.

fermezporte at 11:37PM on 02/19/08

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Simple Chocolate Mousse

chocolate cake!

fermezporte at 10:42AM on 02/16/08

From Talk

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!

fermezporte at 7:09PM on 02/15/08

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Black Bottom Cupcakes

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

fermezporte at 12:14PM on 02/15/08

From Recipes

Cook the Book: Chocolate Sablés

Ooh chicken in mole sauce is delicious too

fermezporte at 9:29PM on 02/12/08

From Required Eating

Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway

dark!

fermezporte at 2:39PM on 02/12/08

From Recipes

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.

fermezporte at 5:43PM on 02/11/08