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Display Name:	KatieG
Member Since:	1/24/08

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Basil! Apartment Therapy The Kitchn \| Thursday Giveaway: Power Plant Mini from Prepara Flag this comment	5/22/08 12:52 PM
Cadbury eggs . . . they are a complete dessert on their own. Adding anything to them -- or them to anything -- would be sacreligious. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Holiday Giveaway: Win a Big Basket of Easter Candy Flag this comment	3/20/08 11:17 AM
Chili with Rancho Gordo Beans. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: Crock-Pot VersaWare Slow Cooker Flag this comment	3/13/08 10:40 AM
Hard boiled with a pinch of salt. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: Eiko Egg Boilers from Vessel Flag this comment	3/6/08 7:11 AM
Plain seltzer, straight out of a can. How refreshing! Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: Soda-Club Seltzer Water Soda Maker Flag this comment	2/22/08 4:32 AM
it's all about the cinnamon. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: tsp spices Sweet Heat Package Flag this comment	2/7/08 8:39 AM
Medium! Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: Two Pounds of Ugly Mug Coffee Beans Flag this comment	1/31/08 10:18 AM
Sounds great for simply melting, but for tempering chocolate, it's not ideal. The problem is that once you take it off the heat source, the water around the pot is still hot so you can't make the temperature go down very well without pouring out the hot water and adding cooler water to the pot. With a double boiler, you can just take the top pot off the bottom pot to cool it down. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Hot or Not: Double Wall Pot Flag this comment	1/25/08 5:58 AM
I just made my first set of chocolates the other day with a bittersweet green tea ganache enrobed in milk chocolate. I was successful enough (despite a bit of uncertainty about the tempering) that I'm already dreaming up a new, even more delightful concoction. My ambition is to use up the Andes Candies baking chips that have been in my cupboard since Christmas. My dream goes like this: A bittersweet ganache infused with mint leaves that surrounds a layer of Andes chips. I will pour the ganache -- created with cream, butter, corn syrup, mint leaves, 73% bittersweet chocolate -- into the pan in two tranches, putting down a thick layer of Andes mint chips in the middle. Andes Candies buried in minty bittersweet ganache! The glory of it! The ganache hardens as a mint-chocolatey Andes sandwich, which I will cut into 1" squares and dip in 41% milk chocolate. Could anything be more divine? If only I had some green transfer sheets, I could top them with a leafy green pattern to make them look the part. But if I can just get the chocolate to stay tempered while I dip (quite a balancing act, I've discovered) they'll look--and taste!--fabulous anyway. If I can pull it off, these might become my brother's birthday present . . . if I don't eat them all first. Apartment Therapy The Kitchen \| Thursday Giveaway: ChocolateChocolate and Scharffen Berger Baking Goodies Flag this comment	1/24/08 10:30 AM