Many pumpkin purée cans have become casualties of my madness. Many hours have been spent by the stove top. And most unfortunately, many sticks of quality butter have gone into making sub-par chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. Initially I knew, without a doubt, that I wanted to make chocolate chip pumpkin cookies. However, the last thing I wanted to make was a [...]
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Have you ever noticed how our society is consumed (no pun intended) by food shapes? It’s “tradition,” I suppose. But when was the last time you made bread in a hexagonal pan? How about blondies in a small bundt pan? When was the last time you cut homemade pasta into curly mustache shapes? Or rolled sugar cookies [...]
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I can bake. Heck, I can bake all day. It’s fun, it involves stoichiometry and chemistry, and there’s plenty of batter/dough taste-testing along the way. But I cannot cook to save my life. In fact, this post was originally destined to be a spaghetti dish. You’re probably, most likely, almost certainly thinking, How can one mess [...]
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