Awww, she's so cute! I hope she gets well soon. In my experience with my own little abandoned genius, they've got luck like you wouldn't believe (how else would they have found suckers to take th...

They're around in Cali! I need to buy some and make jam again. Homemade strawberry jam is one of life's simple pleasures and making it's quite fun, too, as long as you don't do anything stupid (l...

Alton Brown did an entire show on homemade energy type bars once. Which I appear to have foolishly lost. I never made them, but I have a lot of faith in his recipes.

Chocolate or possibly cardamom cookies. Lovely.

Dana, that's the one I was thinking of, but not what came up when I googled it. I'm often quite good at knowing, in my head, what a word means without being able to articulate it. The disconnect ...

I'm not really a seafood fan so I can say with some certainty that I'm NEVER going to eat one of these!

Blowsy: characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women. (from Google, using define:blowsy) I think she meant for it to be taken in the sense of "loose, ca...

Pasta sounds grand to me! It's the ultimate in easy comfort food in my mind. A nice pot of red sauce, a crusty loaf of bread and a bright salad. Yum. Rats. Now I'm going to be dayd...

Oh! I forgot, Snickitysnack, yeah laptops are the new cookbooks. Or at least mine is. One of these days I'm going to short out the keyboard but it hasn't happened yet!

I cheat and tend to make things that can coast for a while. Pasta sauce can simmer for as long as I like, water can be kept just hot for pasta soon after the guests arrive, bread gets popped in th...

Aha! I knew that sounded familiar! I just recently found (and love) the caramel recpie on the Exploratorium's website and they talk about this reaction, too. The recipe is in their Science of Ca...

I drop things and have to haul my lunch on the bus to work. I'll stick to plastics, thanks. Especially since I actually like my food cold, not reheated. Unless it's been frozen, which you should...

I've made cookies that only used butter to bind before. The trick appears to be beating them to death in the mixer. If you just keep going, eventually the texture changes and they start to ball t...

The only person I've ever met who LIKED young almonds was my gardening professor. He was Middle Eastern and I got the impression it was something he'd grown up eating. The rest of the class didn'...

Heh, I have my fingers in everything, literally, when I'm cooking (yes, I wash my hands a LOT). If I'm not sure, I ask a guest to taste, usually by handing them a clean spoon and saying "Does this...

I thought the whole point of baking the no-knead bread in a pot was to keep steam in and avoid having to do this kind of thing. Wouldn't that work just as well?

The one bottled dressing I adore is Newman's Own Family Recipe Italian. It's delicious. Unfortunately, I rarely eat salad so it goes bad before it gets used. I'll have to try making my own versi...

Ooo, now I'm having visions of shortbread and nutella... Thank you for the info, too. I hadn't ever seen "short" used except in shortening and shortbread and never made the connection...

Hah! AmbsATX, I was just about to recommend the same. My cat, Chibi, sheds like crazy, especially now as it's warming up and this thing works wonders. Assuming she sits still long enough to let ...

Watch out for Sony, they usually require you to use Memory Stick, which is much more expensive than the usual SD card or Compact Flash.