Chug-a-chug-a-chug-a-chug-a-choo-choo! Neeeeeeeeeeeeerooo! What the…? Let me explain. During my infancy, meal times were littered with sounds of transportation mechanisms (The former was a train, and the latter, a plane. My onomatopoeia for a plane is admittedly a tad sketchy.). Imagine a spoonful of baby food coming straight towards your face, the spoon veering toward you like a vehicle, and [...]
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Willpower is not merely a word; it is the underlying force that drives human action and reaction. Willpower is both the power to suppress and the power to incite. Willpower, or lack thereof, is smothering my ability to review for final exams. It’s the reason I woke up at 10:30 this fine Saturday morning. It’s the [...]
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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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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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The chocolate chip cookie: it’s so simple, it’s difficult. I have searched high and low for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. The past several afternoons, in particular, I’ve occupied myself with chocolate chip cookie baking. Most recipes produced flat, crisp, and unsightly confections. With the crystallized air pockets, utter lack of flavor depth, flatness, and crisp texture plaguing each cookie, I was [...]
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If I had a dime for every time someone said, “I’m really craving [insert food here]“… …I’d be rich. And baffled. I’d be a baffled rich person with way too much change. Why would I be baffled? Because I don’t understand so-called “cravings.” In my entire life, I’ve never “craved” anything. Unless I can see, [...]
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