There’s this web site called twitter. It’s at twitter.com. The purpose of it is to allow people to basically say what they’re up to in 140 characters or less. It also let’s you get an idea of what various people you’re interested in are doing. Not a site for complex philosophy, but it’s good to [...]

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I was making my wife’s usual morning latte yesterday, as is my custom (yes, she is spoiled). After making a certain number of lattes, one starts to play around with the process. In my case, I’m slowly learning to make designs in the coffee. Oh, not well, I assure you, but designs nevertheless.
There’s a [...]

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Baking pan conversions…yay!: ”
Have you ever run into this problem? You find a great cake recipe, but you don’t have the size of cake pan that it calls for. Or you want to try that cake batter in an odd shaped cake pan. Well here is one way to solve this quandary. Check out the [...]

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I was watching the most recent episode of Good Eats, the one on knives and related applications. He mentioned that a 5:1 concentration of water to bleach was the ideal solution for ridding hands of unwanted chile oils. Long time readers may recall my misadventures with chile oils, and my subsequent crying like a little [...]

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So, seriously, what’s the point of dicing garlic? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use the microplane grater, or, better yet, crush it? Food Blog Skillet Doux asks just those questions (or near enough) and throws in a nice, hypothesis-testing experiment to discover the answer. He tries three methods of garlic preparation, and cooks each [...]

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I made a batch of my Banana Nut Bread the other day, which is a relatively simple recipe. It’s basically a cake, as it’s assembled via the creaming method. It has some additional lift via baking powder, but primarily the lift is derived from the sugar making little pockets of air in the butter, which [...]

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I was making some Pepper Jelly (a.k.a. Fire Jam a.k.a. Sweet, Sweet Napalm) this weekend, which is a sweet jam with bits of chiles thrown in for flavor and heat. Super tasty, and good fun to make. This time, instead of using the food processor for chopping, I figured it would be a good [...]

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Although a good number of you will have memorized several measurement conversions in your time, I find that there are times when I don’t want to have to, for example, convert cups into teaspoons, or what have you. The calculations aren’t terribly difficult, but I’ll have to find out what the conversion factor is, do [...]

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Eggs are a wonder of the world, capable of turning potential birds into real birds, supporting a soufflé, making nog and other custards, and bringing disparate ingredients together in a bit of harmony that would make the United Nations proud. There are nearly 3 sesquitillion techniques for working eggs properly into food, some of more [...]

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