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I'm making marshmallows to give away as holiday gifts. This year I'm making a bunch of different flavors - Vanilla, Lillet, Kaluha, peppermint, cinnamon, chocolate, orange, and raspberry. It's terr...

Charise, I still don't see how you're getting 4 servings out of this. 2 cups of milk is 16 ounces. 1/2 cup of coffee is another 4, for a total of 20. The sugar and the vanilla bump it up to 22, and...

I buy my vanilla beans from the bulk section at Whole Foods. They're priced at something like $150/pound (or is it an ounce?) but each bean weighs so little they end up costing $1/bean. For me this...

I think it's appropriate for you to lay down rules and enforce them when it comes to your home and your possessions - no jumping on the couch, etc - but not appropriate to attempt to govern their i...

I've also used a drinking straw, but most of the time I just cut straight across the top. It depends on whether or not I want them to be pretty.

This strikes me as a horrible idea. Like the other posters, I'm convinced I'd cut myself while trying to use the "utensils" and I'd scrape up my knuckles on the grater while chopping. ...

I missed the Chestnutter. Yikes.

I like to roll a log of chevre in smoked paprika (and sometimes another in minced dill) and serve with a knife and crackers as a party finger food.

I received one as a gift when I got married, and just tossed it in the Goodwill pile today. You're much better off with a serrated knife for slicing tomatoes, it's not good for slicing mushrooms, a...

Thanks for the tip! I just bought the scavenger hunt cards. My daughter isn't old enough for them yet, but I'll tuck them away and bring them out in a year or two for us to use at the park and play...

I like the Cook's Illustrated sour cream coffee cake and sour cream chocolate bundt cake. The sour cream makes them moist and tender. The coffee cake takes 1 1/2 cups, the chocolate cake takes 1 cu...

The cookbook holder is in stock at Amazon, and a bit cheaper there as well. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00139X0EU

I just tried this for dinner tonight and it was lovely. The sauce looked a bit dodgy, but it tasted absolutely fantastic. The milk curdles and forms almost a cheese, which is divine with the rest o...

Cook's Illustrated published a recipe for Paprikash in March of '02. It's also on their website if you have access and in The Best International Recipe. I made it about a year ago and loved everyth...

I was vegetarian for 12 years. Then I got pregnant. 6 weeks in, the fetus was craving bacon and I was powerless to resist. I had a BLTA that was absolutely MAGICAL. It's been about 2 years since th...

I have Debbie Bliss Simply Baby, which I love. What I really like about it is the patterns vary in size (I think up to age two?) so you can knit bigger sizes that will fit your little one a bit lon...

Great room! I see you have some skyscraper blocks, but have you seen the Haba set? They're available at Amazon and Oompa.

The same thing happened to our Roomba. Fortunately we had purchased it at Costco and were able to return it for a replacement about a year after we purchased it initially.

Budino, I made one recently using cake mix and eggs, water, etc. Diet Sprite id NOT necessary and in my opinion, pretty gross. I used a yellow cake mix and with two boxes of mix and two pans, I had...

I use GroceryIQ on my iPhone. It's some combination of all of the above - items automatically are arranged by aisle, and I can rearrange the aisles so that they show up on my list the same order th...