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pumpkin's tortelli!

I use routinely agar agar in my lab for preparing solid media for bacteria (which look like firm pudding): the dose is 17,5 g for a liter of liquid. A positive side of using agar agar is the you ca...

bina, I also think the pic was taken in Italy :)

pale yellow-green (kind of cream white) with a backsplash made of very blue tiles (which is what one notices first)

just remember to never wash rice if you make risotto: the extra starch is necessary! I used to wash basmati (just once) and, since it didn't seem to make a big difference and the rice wasn't sticky...

I use it as a filling in savoury vegetable pies, with eggs or cheese, shredded carrots and zucchini or broccoli... very good!

Somebody could at least mention some of these poisonous blue foods? I cannot think of any and almost nothing is blue in nature (there is no blue pigment, if something is blue, like the feathers of ...

Spinach! who would have ever said that I'd cook them regularly? On the other hand, my mom says that I loved liver as a child the only time she prepared it, but I was so sick after eating it t...

ceramic tiles, they are fine and easy to clean. I chose them and love them. I come from a country where kitchen floor is *always* tiles but I never heard of leg hurting because of the hard floor.....

ops 'animals' (3 am... should go to bed)

Pythons and boas are some of the most common 'pet' snakes but a considerable number of people seems to enjoy the company of more 'exciting' reptiles: my husband checks animal imported in the countr...

did I make an inappropriate comment? or there just something wrong with the server?...

I have just read on another forum that someone won a competition using this cake: http://bakerella.blogspot.com/2009/04/hey-yall.html

>>> I guess the word you were looking for was 'palette' (and not palate). Sorry, but for a not native speaker it's quite confusing.

now I am even more glad that I wanted a tiled blue backsplash in my kitchen :) http://www.flickr.com/ph...

I made them tonight and they came out great, the best gnocchi I ever prepared. I was a bit suspicious about the potatoes (starchy enough?), I decided to steam them (using my pasta cooker) instead ...

try mulberry granita, it's one of the best

frittata, it's a classic!

.. at it is brewed in Plzen (Pilsen in German) so it's the real thing :) People here in CZ prepare a series of so called 'beer food' (quick snacks to eat while drinking your half a li...

to shape the gnocchi you need to shape a string of potato dough about half an inch thick, cut it in about one inch long segments and then, with the help of your thumb, roll each segment against a f...