Seven Reasons to Not Make Homemade Candy Canes: One: If, like a “certain someone,” you’ve never made candy before, the forty-five minute process of bringing sugar to 295 degrees F will likely cause doubt and restlessness. Apparently, the sugar mixture has a high specific heat capacity. Two: If, like a “certain someone,” you don’t have a [...]
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Flourless chocolate cake has been all the rage in the food blogosphere. How does such a plain dessert attract so much attention? One, it’s beyond simple; we’re talkin’ chocolate, butter, sugar, and eggs, people. Two, it’s chocolate. Chocolate, like math, is a universal language. Three, its ooey gooey texture makes for drool-inducing photos. I’m surprised that something designed to protect keyboards [...]
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I couldn’t resist the urge. The urge pulsed through me like the electric shocks (perhaps “jolts” is more appropriate) I receive from my car’s door. Like a tidal wave, having long since grown to behemoth proportions, crashing ashore. It was an urge I neither resisted nor wanted to resist. It came about suddenly and powerfully. It was [...]
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Have you ever noticed that at Thanksgiving, pie is, without doubt, the most populous of all food species? Between Great Aunt Minnie’s apple pie, Grandma’s pumpkin pie, Mom’s pumpkin pie, and Sister-in-Law Susie’s no-bake pie, there are already more slices of pie than guests at the dinner table. There’s just something about pie. Everyone wants to bring it, everyone [...]
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As many of you are aware, the recent mid-term elections marked a turn-over of power in the House of Representatives. Republicans will soon yield a majority in a previously Democrat-controlled House. To reflect this development, as well as to celebrate the absence of mudslinging political advertisements for a whopping 4 days, it only seemed appropriate to make turnovers. Tee [...]
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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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