I’m doing some travel for business. I got a new job recently (and got married, and went on a honeymoon, and was in a bit of community theatre), which is part of the reason you’ve heard little from me recently. However, as I’m getting the old posts back, I’ll post some more new stuff in [...]

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One of the big advances in the home culinary revolution is the use of fresh lemons and limes in cooking, rather than the lemon juice in the plastic lemons so popular in my youth. And fresh lemons and limes are super-tasty, but occasionally one forgets to purchase a lemon, or the lemon gets all moldy, [...]

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I ran across Metromint Peppermint Water at the store today, and as I am a mint whore, I had to get it. It’s zero calorie, and the only thing that’s been added is the peppermint. So no extra vitamins, no sugar, nothing that is so popular in the enhanced “waters” of the day. As you [...]

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Whenever I go to bake, I have two go-to books that I like to check first. One of them is Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here for More Food, and the other is Shirley O’Corriher’s Cookwise. I imagine I’ll be adding The Breadmaker’s Apprentice at some point, but I don’t have it just yet. What makes [...]

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