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My husband is notorious for walking away from food that is cooking. Once he was grilling salmon for dinner, he left the grill unattended....And in the meantime, our landlord's golden retriever, Peaches, helped herself to our dinner.

m0pngl0w at 4:56PM on 04/15/09

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Cut-out cookies for Valentine's Day

Embackus:
Is this the recipe you speak of? The Setttlement Cookbook is available online via Google books. I couldn't find any recipe labeled "Sour Cream Cookies" but I did find this one from the 1915 edition that sounds good:

CRISP COOKIES
2 tablespoons butter
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 cup sour cream
1/2teaspoon soda
4 cups flour

Cream butter add sugar and stir add eggs mix well and add the rest of the ingredients the soda with the sour cream Toss on floured board roll out thin and cut into rounds Bake in shallow pans in a hot oven about 10 minutes

m0pngl0w at 4:43PM on 02/04/09

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Cook the Book: Jamie at Home

White beans with garlic and spinach and parm

m0pngl0w at 7:13PM on 01/04/09

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Serious Eats Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers, $10 and Under

I purchased and returned the egg timer a couple of years ago. It gave off a strong plastic smell that was unappetizing. And I can boil eggs without it.

m0pngl0w at 6:29PM on 12/01/08

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Cook the Book: 'Baked, New Frontiers in Baking'

Jimmy Carter Cake -- some sort of baked nut-crust, a mixture of Cool Whip and cream cheese, Jell-o instant chocolate pudding, and than Cool Whip. My brother's and father's birthday are at the end of January-beginning of February and somehow this cake was perfect for winter birthdays. I haven't had any in years.

m0pngl0w at 4:25PM on 11/24/08

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Celebrity Chef Holidays: Lidia Bastianich

No recipe for the the butternut squash tiramisu and the cranberry-quince chutney that she says she will share with us.

m0pngl0w at 4:19PM on 11/11/08

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Cook the Book: 'Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics'

For my family, German Apple Pancake; For my husband, veggie lo mien. For my in-laws, Christmas Dinner (ham, scalloped potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, asparagus, and Red Velvet Cake.)

m0pngl0w at 4:17PM on 11/11/08

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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'

Per my coworkers, my greatest baking success was the Cook's Country's Whoopie pies....which led to my greatest baking disaster, my boss's boss loved whoopie pies and ginger cookies, so I found a recipe for ginger whoopie pies on the internet and set about making them. I made the recipe 3 times with no success -- one attempt after another. The cookies were sticky and flat, no matter how I tweaked the recipe.

m0pngl0w at 4:47PM on 09/22/08

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Celebrating July Fourth with a Plop (Not a Bang)

Call me lazy or frugal but here is my question -- Can I make it with frozen cherries?

m0pngl0w at 3:03PM on 07/03/08

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Cook the Book: 'Screen Doors and Sweet Tea'

Ice Tea sweetened with Peach Nectar. Yum!

m0pngl0w at 9:20PM on 06/17/08

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Ed Levine's Serious Diet, Week 16: The Tale of the Scale

I love the name of your scale. I have a vintage model: a light pink number called "The Counselor." She keeps me honest too.

m0pngl0w at 11:22AM on 05/02/08

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Cook the Book: 'Panini Express'

mmmm...melted cheese. Ham and cheese. Cheese and tomato.

m0pngl0w at 10:27AM on 03/05/08

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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Secret Ingredients, the New Yorker Book of Food and Drink'

Calvin Trillin. I visited Kansas City atleast twice a year with my vegetarian husband and I have yet to eat at Winstead's!

m0pngl0w at 10:45AM on 02/18/08

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A Red Velvet Affair

I just want to defend boiled icing on red velvet cake. I make it every Christmas from my best friend's mother's recipe. I have even made a watermelon shaped red velvet cake with the boiled icing dyed green for a July office party and my coworkers love it.

In my house, cream cheese frosting is for carrot cake.

m0pngl0w at 3:04PM on 02/14/08

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

For myself, it is Cook's Illustrated's Chocolate-Chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries made with SchaffenBerger Bittersweet Chocolate.

For my husband, a simple chocolate cake recipe from the Joy of Cooking that just happens to be dairy-free. I leave out the vanilla to emphasize the chocolate flavor.

m0pngl0w at 5:30PM on 02/11/08

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