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Lavender: where to find it and recipies
I found lavender at World Market.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pound-Cake-with-Blueberries-and-Lavender-Syrup-109663
Epicurious has some good lavender recipes.
Cocoa Powder
I agree with several others on the Hershey's. Throw it away. . For future reference, Trader Joe's Cocoa Powder is the best I've ever tasted.
Try this fabulous cake that uses a lot of cocoa powder. It freezes nicely as well.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Stout-Cake-107105
What should I make for Passover?
Make the Apple Matzoh Kugel, but cut down on the sugar by half.
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Sugar Cookies
You should be able to find the silver balls in a craft store like Michaels.
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
I found lavender at World Market.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pound-Cake-with-Blueberries-and-Lavender-Syrup-109663
Epicurious has some good lavender recipes.
Cocoa Powder
I agree with several others on the Hershey's. Throw it away. . For future reference, Trader Joe's Cocoa Powder is the best I've ever tasted.
Try this fabulous cake that uses a lot of cocoa powder. It freezes nicely as well.
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Chocolate-Stout-Cake-107105
What should I make for Passover?
Make the Apple Matzoh Kugel, but cut down on the sugar by half.
I want a soft focaccia bread recipe
Try Emeril's recipe for Caramelized Onion Foccacia on the FN.
Reheating Pizza
Try a quick trip into the microwave just to take the chill off. Follow with the toaster oven directly on the rack to recrisp the crust.
Putting the "In" in "Gin"
cafepeach
I always buy the diet tonic and can't tell the difference.
Best Hangover Food?
A really charred cheeseburger will do the trick.
Cooking Classes
I would rent the kitchen and students will pay directly. I also have liability insurance. I'm guessing the students are required to bring their own knives?
Cook the Book: Nigella Express
Move faster in the kitchen. Making cooking into a race or a game always saves me time.
Urgent! Recs for wine pairing with ham...
Try Rioja (gran reserva) with ham. Pinot Noir will work as well.
Serious cocktails.
I must have Pallini Limoncello in the freezer. It's great straight, on the rocks with sparkling water or in a vodka martini.
What is the Baking and Pastry Bible?
I'm going to have to go with Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook. I took it out from the library to see if it was worthwhile and had to go buy a copy.
Best Hangover Food?
for some reason, i actually embrace my hangovers; it means that there's a ton to discuss with my girlfriends the next morning! we'll typically cruise over to a local burger joint and get their saturday special (huge greasy cheeseburger, thick-cut fries, and a large soda... i always opt for water instead of the soda). if they're not around, i'll brew some coffee, and then pick up a huge plate of pad thai, which is so big that i'll snack on it throughout the day.
cheers!!
Best Hangover Food?
Last night I drank a bunch of beers and some shots. I was so drunk I was hitting on a lady who was twice my age, so thats about how drunk I was. Went home and fell asleep as soon as I hit the pillow, woke up fully clothed shoes and all --- I was HUNG OVER. But there's a Pho diner around the corner. I went over there and got some of that vietnamese noodle soup and ate that whole thing. Went straight home and fell right back asleep again until later on in the afternoon. When I woke up, the hangover was completely gone.
Best Hangover Food?
well, i'm hungover right now and all those foods make my stomach hurt to even THINK about eating. other than miso soup... i might go get some... DEFINITELY "try" to remember taking ibuprofen and a few tums with a big glass of water before bed. my advice, lay out the meds beside your bed before you go out..
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
ewwwwwww tasts like soap.
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
I bought some at bulkfoods.com
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
www.penzeys.com
Dried, anyway.
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
I grow it and sometimes add a sprig or two with thyme and rosemary and a lemon to a chicken's cavity before roasting it.
Lavender: where to find it and recipies
Health food stores that sell herbs and spices in bulk often carry it, so you might find it locally.
I've been investigating lavender recipes as well. Martha Stewart has a recipe for lavender salt that I've always thought would be a great Christmas gift. Google "Martha Stewart lavender salt" and you'll get the link.
Here's a link to lavender jelly. What a fabulous color! I have no idea what it tastes like, but I'd love to find out!
Cocoa Powder
Throw away the Hershey's? What happened to giving away/sharing? Kids will probably love the stuff, so I second the suggestion to make hot chocolate mix to give away. It's really sad/pathetic to think about throwing over perfectly good food or usable ingredients. Just my two cents.
Cocoa Powder
ChelleyD01, I totally agree with you on the Hershey's. I do the same with butter. Butter for me, margarine for people who can't tell the difference. Cuts cookie making costs by a lot.
Cocoa Powder
ok I just blogged this today it is a rich chocolate cake w/ a fudgey frosting and they both use cocoa powder (any brand is fine) :) I also second camaro as I adore triple choco cookies or brownies yummmmmmmmm
Cocoa Powder
@Chell ~ you need to clean out your spice cabinet. ;-)
Cocoa Powder
I just had a chocolate cranberry bread at my favorite brasserie...it was so good, I asked for the recipe, but the restaurant would only say that it was a standard bread recipe with the addition of cocoa powder, dried cranberries, and wlanuts. I bought some craisins and I've been googling chocolate cranberry bread. Can't wait to see what happens.
I want a soft focaccia bread recipe
As with any homemade bread, if you want it soft, all you have to do is brush with butter, top, sides,and bottom,about five or so minutes after you take it out of the oven. As the bread cools, it will soften. All my breads are homemade and we like our bread soft at times and rustic also. If you make your bread from scratch, and love the taste and texture, why change recipies? To change the taste and flavor of your bread, keep the basic bread recipe and just add the herbs you want. You allready know what should be in the foccacia ,just add them in. Carmalize the onions and add them in.as you knead the bread. When making any Itallian bread, you need to add 2 tablespoons olive oil to the recipe. If still too dry for you ,put in three. R. M.
Best Hangover Food?
it all depends on my level of sickness! :)
1. egg and cheese on a bagel with tons of ketchup (if i'm motivated to go out and get it)
2. oatmeal or ramen noodles (if i can't bear to leave the house - i keep a stash in the pantry!)
3. thai (crab rangoon (for the grease) and chicken w broccoli and brown rice (for protein and carbs))
4. a pina colada or margarita (it's true - the hair of the dog really works!)
Best Hangover Food?
After a HEAVY night of drinking nothing settles in my stomach better than a nice bowl of pho, all that liquid is the only thing that my stomach can handle !!! Sometimes if I can't have that then I go for the all out fatty like a big mac but what I really need is that pho to cure the hangover blues.
Best Hangover Food?
A nice bloody mary, a greasy burger, and a nap!
Best Hangover Food?
Try to eat a big bowl of cheesy, buttery rice before you go to bed. Eat more in the morning with cold cola.
Best Hangover Food?
I go for salt and vinegar potato chips every time. preferably the Dirty brand. My sister's new favorite thing to do/place to eat to remedy a hangover is the Russian Baths, for you NYC folk. (http://mousebouche.blogspot.com/2008/07/for-what-ails-you.html)
Best Hangover Food?
Ohhhhh I'm the Dr. on this one....hmmmm where do I start?
No. 1 Fav. Bloodymary
No. 2 Hair or the dog (beer) just a couple to ease the edge.
No. 3 Menundo
No. 4 Lots of H2o
Best Hangover Food?
finally! someone mentioned sex so i didn't have to first. i am new around here after all and you know what they say about first impressions :)
Best Hangover Food?
the best way to avoid a hangover after a night of heavy drinking is a waffles house steak and eggs with smothered, covered hashbrowns, sex and then sleep. (and in that exact order, unless you want to get a little creative with #1 and #2)
Best Hangover Food?
Water and ibuprofen before going to bed.
Water and ibuprofen in the morning.
Drive through Hardees or McD for bacon egg and cheese biscuits, hashbrowns, coke. Drive through Starbucks for coffee.
If I don't have to work, then I go out for pho and go back to bed.
If I'm so hungover I can't even leave the house, then it has to be Sapporo Ichiban beef flavored ramen with two eggs. then back to bed.
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You should be able to find the silver balls in a craft store like Michaels.