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I always like fresh fruit things with mexican food. Blend together some mint and some sugar, then sprinkle over pineapple (or fruit salad, or whatever). Tres leches is really tasty as well, thoug...
For really liquidy batters (crepe, popover, dutch pancake), I've had good luck skipping the resting step and using my immersion blender to do the mixing. I'm pretty sure I got that idea from an ol...
I used those exact cherries to make a tasty cherry-apple pie! I drained the juice, cooked it down a bit, then mixed it with cornstarch and stirred it into the sliced apples and cherries. Yums.
All of my eggs this time of year are frozen, because the chickens and ducks lay very early in the morning and then abandon their nests to the cold. :)
I have had very good luck using ...
Is that pineapple for real? That is just asking for impalement.
I like the look of the first one the best, though my current house has triangle steps like that in the middle and I'm...
I love that veggie stuff because it's a nice *dark* broth. Lots of veg stock is light like chicken stock, but theirs is dark and rich like beef. And their meat stocks are, consistently, the only ...
With a mothball-scented blanket I had, the following worked wonders:
1) Fill a bowl with baking soda
2) Put 4-5 drops of peppermint essential oil in the baking soda
3) Put the bow...
I have some mats very similar to those tiki ones and they are *terrible*! Sure, they're pretty when there's an empty place setting on them, but if you spill some spaghetti off your plate, you get ...
I have not used that exact kit (mine was similar but a different brand) and ... well, it doesn't suck as bad as it could have. It's not great. But it's a year later and the tub is not flaking hor...
I always just buy carpet pad at Home Depot/Lowe's. They sell it off those giant rolls, and it's not very expensive -- I think you can get 8X10 of "the good stuff" for less than $40. (Also you can...
Does the neck really even count as giblet? It's not offal, it's just like leg or wing (admittedly harder to eat). Perfect for stock, and I have seen a sausage recipe that calls for the ground mea...
I have a love for that stuff from my days in a professional kitchen, but it kind of creeps me out. I use it anyway, because one box lasts forever and I like the pre-cut sheets. (Also I have a ha...
For those of who cook with (but don't generally drink) wine, bags-in-boxes are a great way to keep wine in the house without it going bad quite so quickly.
Wow, it's a good thing I don't have any neighbors to complain! I totally love the fence, and think it is a cool way to use otherwise old-n-rusty pieces of metal. It will be perfect for a chicken ...
Oh man, we pick up our first CSA basket tomorrow! According to the farm blog, we're getting cukes, spinach, chard, and salad turnips (my favorite!). I am pretty stoked.
They're not soaked in lime-the-citrus-fruit, but lime-as-in-calcium-hydroxide.
According to Mr. Harold McGee (my favorite food scientist ever), "During the steeping, the alkalinity sof...
We sucked it up and bought a portable air conditioner this week. We live in a badly-insulated log cabin with all-casement windows as well, and the 2nd floor -- even with an attic fan -- was 92F. ...
I will put in a plug for those octagon Home Depot tiles (the black and white ones that you can buy in pre-arranged sheets) -- we put them into a tiny bathroom with white wainscot trim (as proposed ...
That whole "don't cook with what you wouldn't drink" thing always seemed a bit silly to me -- if I followed that rule then I'd never ever use wine in my food. I think the idea is that if yo...
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I always like fresh fruit things with mexican food. Blend together some mint and some sugar, then sprinkle over pineapple (or fruit salad, or whatever). Tres leches is really tasty as well, thoug...
For really liquidy batters (crepe, popover, dutch pancake), I've had good luck skipping the resting step and using my immersion blender to do the mixing. I'm pretty sure I got that idea from an ol...
I used those exact cherries to make a tasty cherry-apple pie! I drained the juice, cooked it down a bit, then mixed it with cornstarch and stirred it into the sliced apples and cherries. Yums.
All of my eggs this time of year are frozen, because the chickens and ducks lay very early in the morning and then abandon their nests to the cold. :) I have had very good luck using ...
Is that pineapple for real? That is just asking for impalement. I like the look of the first one the best, though my current house has triangle steps like that in the middle and I'm...
I love that veggie stuff because it's a nice *dark* broth. Lots of veg stock is light like chicken stock, but theirs is dark and rich like beef. And their meat stocks are, consistently, the only ...
With a mothball-scented blanket I had, the following worked wonders: 1) Fill a bowl with baking soda 2) Put 4-5 drops of peppermint essential oil in the baking soda 3) Put the bow...
Not quite roller blinds, but very cute and easy DIY: http://twostraightlines.typepad.com/two_stra...
I have some mats very similar to those tiki ones and they are *terrible*! Sure, they're pretty when there's an empty place setting on them, but if you spill some spaghetti off your plate, you get ...
I have not used that exact kit (mine was similar but a different brand) and ... well, it doesn't suck as bad as it could have. It's not great. But it's a year later and the tub is not flaking hor...
I always just buy carpet pad at Home Depot/Lowe's. They sell it off those giant rolls, and it's not very expensive -- I think you can get 8X10 of "the good stuff" for less than $40. (Also you can...
Does the neck really even count as giblet? It's not offal, it's just like leg or wing (admittedly harder to eat). Perfect for stock, and I have seen a sausage recipe that calls for the ground mea...
I have a love for that stuff from my days in a professional kitchen, but it kind of creeps me out. I use it anyway, because one box lasts forever and I like the pre-cut sheets. (Also I have a ha...
For those of who cook with (but don't generally drink) wine, bags-in-boxes are a great way to keep wine in the house without it going bad quite so quickly.
Wow, it's a good thing I don't have any neighbors to complain! I totally love the fence, and think it is a cool way to use otherwise old-n-rusty pieces of metal. It will be perfect for a chicken ...
Oh man, we pick up our first CSA basket tomorrow! According to the farm blog, we're getting cukes, spinach, chard, and salad turnips (my favorite!). I am pretty stoked.
They're not soaked in lime-the-citrus-fruit, but lime-as-in-calcium-hydroxide. According to Mr. Harold McGee (my favorite food scientist ever), "During the steeping, the alkalinity sof...
We sucked it up and bought a portable air conditioner this week. We live in a badly-insulated log cabin with all-casement windows as well, and the 2nd floor -- even with an attic fan -- was 92F. ...
I will put in a plug for those octagon Home Depot tiles (the black and white ones that you can buy in pre-arranged sheets) -- we put them into a tiny bathroom with white wainscot trim (as proposed ...
That whole "don't cook with what you wouldn't drink" thing always seemed a bit silly to me -- if I followed that rule then I'd never ever use wine in my food. I think the idea is that if yo...