Never ask a man who is devoid of culinary knowledge to fetch you an obscure-sounding ingredient. If it doesn’t rhyme with clour, dutter, rugar, or zilk, don’t even let the request slip from your lips. It’s a lost cause. How do I know this? Well. Yesterday morning I was in desperate need of masa harina, a [...]
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Pumpkins are such multi-purpose entities. Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned a giant pumpkin into a lavish carriage. Children annually carve pumpkins into Halloween jack-o-lanterns, which one can often observe rotting on porch steps across America around mid-November. As members of the gourd family, pumpkins can be fashioned into many an instrument. Alas, this same large mass that makes [...]
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When it comes to Halloween, I tend to like the more mellow decorations and festivities. That is, cute usually trumps gory. But, as the saying goes, there’s a first time for everything. How could I have knocked it ’til I tried it? Apparently gory can still be scrumptious. And puff pastry will never look the same to me. [...]
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I must confess something. My mom doesn’t cook. She used to, on occasion. But since I grew past the age at which I could operate a microwave, it’s been a thing of the past. Cooking is a luxury given to those who have the time, energy, and/or desire to do it. Of these three stipulations, she hasn’t a single one. [...]
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Who doesn’t like cupcakes? (This is a rhetorical question. If you do not like cupcakes, well, that is very unfortunate.) Granted, some people prefer more, less, or even no frosting. Some people like vanilla over chocolate. People have different values in defining the “ideal” cupcake, be it texture, taste, flavor, frosting, design, or all of [...]
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