karelise's Profile

ugh - can we all just say 'no' to celebrities posing as chefs/artists/clothing designers? That's great that she eats healthy and likes food but being wealthy and having access to top nutritionists, chefs, and trainers doesn't constitute being a chef or author. I'd much prefer to get similar recipes from people who have dedicated their time and careers to making that food in the first place. In my opinion, her website and books reallly just exemplifies the cult of narcissism.

I don't like the fact that the actual content is squeezed in to a little box between the table of contents and the ads - which have equal amounts of space. It feels sort of like a railroad apartment - narrow and somehow less enjoyable. Shouldn't the actual content have mroe presence (size-wise) than the ads?

I never post here but this is too good! I love this. Simple, beautiful, artful, but REAL. Love this home - you can feel the individuality and the love here.

Seriously, that first one is more than a month's rent for a lot of people, to hang a hat on??! I believe in beautiful hand-crafted thigns but that is simply painful to see.

brown paper lunch bags. Pour in just the kernels, fold over the top a couple times ( maybe a half inch fold?) it woun't be sealed but it works just the same. I pop for about 2 minutes and 50 seconds. Pour in bowl and add melted butter or olive oil or whatever you choose. So easy! (p.s. this is from Alton Brown's method).

I dont think it's high and mighty to suggest eating real food instead of fake crap. And I dont think anyone even mentioned gluten-free or organic in this case. Just high quality versus prepackaged ingredients you can't recognize or pronounce. Have you seen the obesity in this country? It's not like people are eating just a smidgen of nutella and then healthy homemade meals the reast of the day which is the difference between this country and many others ( generalization but still there is truth to this). Yes they eat chocolate in France and beautiful pastries - but they are more often balanced by high quality ingredients and balanced by appropriately portioned, more or less made from scratch meals.

I love chocolate and indulge often - but I dont feed my kids too much processed foods - I want them to understand that food is something you can make and comes from real, accesible ingredients.

Asa chocolate fiend I think the occasional indulgence is fine but not the processed food part. Smitten Kitchen and other sites have recipes for nutella-like spreads with purer ingredients - chocoalte and hazlenuts sans the whole extra sugar, corn syrup, or querstionable oils. My kids eat waffles or toast with acouple drops of honey and I love to indulge once in awhile (ok, more!) but let it be natural, good quality ingredients like dark chocolate and you're both enjoying and not consuming total crap.

beautiful but wow is that expensive!!

I'm a sweets fiend and yet I find cake pops ( home made or starbucks) pretty disgusting personally. The mashing together of all that interior stuff just makes it look like something my toddlers would make after playing with their food.

I have an insane sweet tooth, esp. all thigns chocolate and I have to say, I don't get the cake pop craze! they honestly taste pretty gross to me. I love cake and I love frosting but smushed into a molded ball and covered with stuff just tastes kind of processed or not delicious to me....