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reasonably careful and experienced baker, have made a million shortbread recipes, but this fell right apart on me. I added three teaspoons of water, but it never came together. Wound up pressing it into the bottom of a tart pan. Fingers crossed I can do something with it... all that butter wasted, otherwise!

hate to be the dissenter, but alas, this didn't go so well for me. Soup was underspiced and dumplings fell apart, even though I'm an experienced dumpling-maker (quite the self-characterization, I know). No one else in the family but me could tolerate it; I'm going to be stuck eating it for the rest of the week so as not to waste a perfectly good squash. Too bad.

Made these tonight with my (delighted) children. Fabulous and easy!

Shandon, that recipe looks easy and delicious -- thanks for sharing!

Meh. Added olives, white wine balsamic vinegar. Still meh.

There are hundreds of Peruvian piscos, aged and processed in different ways (akin to tequila's gradations of anejo, silver, etc), and they're delicious. The Chileans are pikers by comparison. Try the real stuff, and you'll never go back...

No, no, a thousand times no. No problem with porn, no problems with relationship advice, but I don't want to find either of them here.

Belittling your readers' comments also seems ill-advised, but who am I to judge?

And the recent uptick in typos and grammatical errors: can't you find a recent j-school graduate to underpay, someone who can catch these things for you?

I'm off to Manhattan Nest, or Young House Love, or Little Green Notebook -- not as much fun and variety, but no sudden detours into random topics, either. Sorry, Maxwell. Much respect and appreciation for your hard work, but this was a seriously bad call.

Pardon a bit of Peruvian nationalism, but Chilean pisco stinks. Buy the Peruvian stuff.

glad others have had positive experiences with epoxy grout, but my own was very disappointing. 2-3x the cost of the regular stuff, and it got just as dirty. Loathe it. But I love my new(-ish) granite counters, especially for baking!

Agreed that the glass top can be a pain, but even so, I still love my Maytag Gemini electric double-oven range. I bought the snazziest model available (convection, "warming" area on the stove) and wouldn't do that again as I use only the basic features. But I love this stove and oven. Stovetop is very responsive, for an electric unit, and cleans up relatively well with Barkeeper's Friend (often just baking soda works great). I love the flexibility of having two ovens: I can have two trays of muffins in the top oven while a pot of yogurt is staying warm in the bottom one. Holidays are much, much easier. My range is easily the best toy I own!