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A Cookie A Day: 'Fine Cooking Cookies'

Everything I've made from both the BAKED cookbook and the Martha Stewart Cookies cookbook has been a success, but for no-fail cookies I turn to chocolate black pepper cookies, a roll/refrigerate/slice type cookie. Easy, delicious.

From Talk

What should I include in my Wedding Registry?

My favorite kitchen wedding gift (I was married last weekend) is my Kitchenaid Pro 610. Love. It. I use it several times a week and the dough hook rocks!
Another favorite is my new knives, despite a mishap last night that means I'm off to the doc tomorrow to have my finger properly bandaged.
I'm loving my new All-Clad pots, and also the decent wooden spoon/tool set.
Nice wine glasses, nice everyday plates, nice flatware.
Registering is so much fun; I hope you enjoy it!

From Talk

If you could only make one...

I'd have to go with Krumkaker, since my husband can't have Christmas without them...but I'm glad I don't really have to pick just one!
Growing up, sugar cookie cutouts were our go-to Christmas sweet, so we'll do his traditional and my traditional this year (our first married Christmas).

From Talk

Best loaf pan?

I love my Pyrex one! I think the new Le Creuset Heritage ones are beautiful but I haven't tried them. The bread out of the pyrex always looks so much better than when I bake in metal, so I like to stick with that.

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From Serious Eats

littlestcapy answered "Pre-Ground Nutmeg" to What Kind of Nutmeg Do You Use?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "I prefer well-prepared coffee, but can do with generic stuff in a pinch." to How Picky Are You About Coffee?

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From Sweets

A Cookie A Day: 'Fine Cooking Cookies'

Everything I've made from both the BAKED cookbook and the Martha Stewart Cookies cookbook has been a success, but for no-fail cookies I turn to chocolate black pepper cookies, a roll/refrigerate/slice type cookie. Easy, delicious.

From Talk

What should I include in my Wedding Registry?

My favorite kitchen wedding gift (I was married last weekend) is my Kitchenaid Pro 610. Love. It. I use it several times a week and the dough hook rocks!
Another favorite is my new knives, despite a mishap last night that means I'm off to the doc tomorrow to have my finger properly bandaged.
I'm loving my new All-Clad pots, and also the decent wooden spoon/tool set.
Nice wine glasses, nice everyday plates, nice flatware.
Registering is so much fun; I hope you enjoy it!

From Talk

If you could only make one...

I'd have to go with Krumkaker, since my husband can't have Christmas without them...but I'm glad I don't really have to pick just one!
Growing up, sugar cookie cutouts were our go-to Christmas sweet, so we'll do his traditional and my traditional this year (our first married Christmas).

From Talk

Best loaf pan?

I love my Pyrex one! I think the new Le Creuset Heritage ones are beautiful but I haven't tried them. The bread out of the pyrex always looks so much better than when I bake in metal, so I like to stick with that.

From Talk

New Pots & Pans: the wedding edition

Sorry; I clearly didn't provide enough background!
I am already the proud owner of a 6-qt. Le Creuset dutch oven and a 12" LC frying pan.
I have nonstick pans in 10" and 12", and a large stainless steel (but not All Clad) stockpot.

I'm just working on the saucepot portion of my collection and was looking for a set of 3 reasonable sizes of All Clad to use daily, forever. I can't really foresee hefting that beastly 4-qt pot on a regular basis--surely if I need a pot that big, I would just go ahead and either use the stockpot or the dutch oven? Maybe not? I am open to more reasonable and experienced minds than my own.

My one true love uses our tiny saucepot right now to make his Ramen noodles for peanut noodles, but he is amenable to whatever I want since it's really my kitchen.

From Talk

Gjetost Cheese: Yay or Nay

Ugh. I am not a fan. My fiance and his family love it, though (but he is Norwegian, so I guess that's fair). They are very partial to one particular brand and insist other brands are not as delicious.

From Serious Eats

Grocery Girl: What Your Grocery Store Says About You

I shop a little here and a little there, so I guess that reflects my split personality? I get fruit and veggies at the local farmstands (Verrill and Wilson's) and local meat from a couple of farmers and from a natural food store. I get bulk foods and sometimes meat and seafood from Whole Foods or from the natural food place. I get spices from Penzey's. I get egg whites and basic food items from Stop & Shop, Roche Bros, or Star Market. We buy in bulk from BJ's. We get wine and some specialty packaged items from Trader Joe's. I'm all over the place!

From Talk

Vegetarian French onion soup recipe anyone?

Deborah Madison's red onion soup with red wine is fabulous--not quite the same as traditional French onion soup but oh! so good.

From Sweets

Bake the Book: 'The Cookiepedia'

I made banana chocolate chip oatmeal cookies last weekend--like a cross between banana bread and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies. Yum.

From Talk

Slow Cooker Cookbook?

My favorite is the Gourmet Vegetarian Slow Cooker--they have great recipes from around the world and several of my very favorites are from there. She also has a non-vegetarian gourmet slow cooker book that is excellent, but I like the veggie one best.

From Sweets

Bake the Book: 'Flour,' by Joanne Chang

Put your heart into your baked goods, especially gifts. The recipients will feel it and smile when they eat!

From Talk

Best Hangover Food?

Ramen (actually, just the broth from the packaged ramen soups; I don't usually eat the noodles until later in the day), Advil or Excedrin, and black tea.

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'Salad as a Meal'

My favorite meal-worthy salad is Jamie Oliver's posh chopped salad--basically it's a chopped salad with lox chopped in, but it has all sorts of lovely fresh flavors and different textures from two types of lettuce, carrots, radishes, fennel, and dill, as well as the lox and a light lemony dressing. Yum!

From Talk

My Second Egg Question

@Saria: Just about anything from the Baked cookbooks is going to be pretty amazing. I have both books, and was amazed that the 2nd could live up to the first. Indeed, it is possibly better.
To the OP: Whenever it calls for a whole egg and I want to only use half, I either beat the egg and use half the total mixture, or substitute using egg beaters. Especially with such a tiny amount, I find the beaters are really useful and I definitely don't notice a difference.

From Serious Eats

Do You Drink Soy Milk Over Other Milks?

I use soy or almond milk in most dairy applications, except in baking; I'm intolerant of regular cow dairy, so I substitute. Almond milk is particularly nice in riesengrynsgrøt, but I usually just use Silk light soy milk in "original" flavor, since it's the lightest and most milky-tasting. There are some soy milks (365 brand, I'm looking at you) that taste too much like plants for me to use them regularly (they make my coffee taste funny!) but in general, I find soy milk works pretty well.

From Serious Eats

Cook the Book: 'In the Small Kitchen'

My first kitchen (after the kitchen I grew up with) was a teeny, shared, galley kitchen in an apartment in Brooklyn. The stove turned on some of the time...We made the best of the tiny space with lots of Ikea Grundtal items, designed to allow all the pots/pans/knives/implements to hang from the wall since we had no cupboard space and only about 3" of counter.
The worst was actually that the fridge only sort of fit in the kitchen at all, and the way it got squashed in there meant that the bathroom door (located at one end of the galley) could only open about 6". And the fire escape was through the bathroom window. Whoops!

From Talk

Cookies for a party

Maybe some Italian butter cookies, filled with jam (and possibly dipped in chocolate)? http://obviouslysweet.com/blog/2011/06/italian-butter-cookies/

Had these at a grad party recently and: yum!

From Talk

Weekend Cook and Tell: Cookbook Keepers

Oooh, excellent timing. I pick up my CSA box tomorrow, and am hoping for the ingredients (or at least most) to make my favorite chopped salad, straight from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution--a workhorse cookbook in my kitchen.

From Talk

creative salads

We love chopped salads, especially now that we're finally getting CSA produce!
A favorite is 2 types of lettuce (one crunchy, one soft--like butter lettuce and endive), a bulb of fennel, radishes, carrots, and lox/gravlax, all chopped together with a couple TB olive oil and a couple TB lemon juice, plus salt & pepper. Yum! Lots of different tastes and textures and a great dinner on its own.

From Talk

What Do You Call It?

Sub.
Also, I guess this is one of those things where, when you hear the word several times in succession, it starts to sound completely crazy. Yikes!

From Talk

Food Processor purchase - which to choose?

@neongiraffe, I have the same one, too. Like @dmcavanagh, I just keep the mini bowl inside the big bowl. I've had mine for a couple years now and it still works like new--happy camper, here. I use the slicing and shredding discs pretty frequently, too.

From Recipes

Bread Baking: Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf

This came JUST too late; I had to bake an emergency sandwich loaf this morning and went for my usual oatmeal maple loaf. This looks like something we'll love, though--bookmarking for next week!

From Talk

Chunky or Smooth?

I like both, too. My sweetie prefers smooth in all applications, but I like chunky in sandwiches or on crackers, and smooth in sauces or when mixed in other foods. I also prefer smooth for off-the-spoon indulgences.

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littlestcapy answered "Yes, food I make" to Do You Give Food As Gifts?

From Slice

littlestcapy answered "Once in a blue moon" to How often do you eat frozen pizza?

From Serious Eats

littlestcapy answered "Pre-Ground Nutmeg" to What Kind of Nutmeg Do You Use?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "I prefer well-prepared coffee, but can do with generic stuff in a pinch." to How Picky Are You About Coffee?

From Serious Eats

littlestcapy answered "Heritage breed bird" to What type of turkey are you cooking for Thanksgiving?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "Making. " to Are You Making Pie or Buying It?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "At my own place" to Where Are You Eating Thanksgiving?

From Sweets

littlestcapy answered "Sour Patch Kids" to What's Your Favorite Gummy Candy?

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littlestcapy answered "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups" to What's Your Favorite Peanutty/Peanut Butter Candy?

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littlestcapy answered "Espresso machine" to How Do You Brew Your Coffee?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "crispy pork belly" to Which dishes are you sick of?

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littlestcapy answered "No" to Do You Buy Store Brands More Often Than Name Brands?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "Special occasions only." to Do You Drink at Brunch?

From Slice

littlestcapy answered "A month" to What's the longest you've gone without eating pizza?

From Serious Eats: New York

littlestcapy answered "I'd scope the place out first to see if it seemed clean." to Would You Eat at a 'C' Restaurant?

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littlestcapy answered "10-15 years old" to When Did You Learn to Cook?

From Slice

littlestcapy answered "Yes. Bring it on" to Do Garlic and Mozzarella Belong Together on a Pizza?

From Serious Eats

littlestcapy answered "Corn on the cob" to What's Your Favorite Summer Cookout Food?

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littlestcapy answered "No" to Did you take home ec in high school?

From Slice

littlestcapy answered "Yes" to Do you blot the grease from your pizza?

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littlestcapy answered "Diet" to Do You Prefer Regular or Diet Soda?

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littlestcapy answered "String by string" to How Do You Eat String Cheese?

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littlestcapy answered "Provolone" to What's Your Favorite Cheese on a Breakfast Sandwich?

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littlestcapy answered "Bacon" to What's Your Favorite Meat on a Breakfast Sandwich?

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littlestcapy answered "Fried Egg" to What's Your Favorite Egg Style on a Breakfast Sandwich?

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littlestcapy got 50% correct on Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Tea?

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littlestcapy got 70% correct on How Much Do You Know About Spring Vegetables?

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littlestcapy got 75% correct on How Much Do You Know About Breakfast Foods?

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littlestcapy got 87% correct on How Much Do You Know About Cheese?

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littlestcapy got 28% correct on How Much Do You Know About Chocolate Chip Cookies?

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littlestcapy got 33% correct on How Much Do You Know About Chocolate?

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About littlestcapy

Website: http://nikebunny.smugmug.com

Location: Sudbury, MA

About: Grad school student, studying library and information science at Simmons College in Boston, MA. I have lived in MA, ME, NY, and Munich, and currently live and cook and eat with my fiance; we are semi-adventurous eaters with boundaries :-)

Favorite foods: Homemade soups! That's all that comes to mind, since deciding on favorites is too hard.

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