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@JSmusic - @JD24's suggestions are spot-on, especially the spray for the knots. Just trying to prime those things is a b*tch. I've painted more than my share of paneling, and I have only one thing to add. Painted paneling tends to look best with lower-sheen paint, no more than, say, satin. Plus, those paints tend to be a bit more grabby to the primer.

I've never put garlic in my risotto either.

A great addition to butternut squash risotto? Put a fat pinch of saffron in your broth as it comes up to temperature. It'll play up the awesome color and add a lovely fragrance too.

The thing that took me the longest to get right was when to add the stock. *imagine stirring away* Look at the bottom of your pot. Is the spoon you're stirring with leaving a trail pretty much to the bottom? It's time for more broth!

I've never had a problem blitzing cubed up bread into breadcrumbs either. Attach steel blade, fill up the work bowl, and pulse till I get the consistency I want. No big deal, and I have the standard, run of the mill KA food processor.

Emile Henry, no question. I've used it to bake things other than pie, too, and it's just amazing.

Specific stand mixer recipes? Are you kidding? :)

ALL your cookies will improve. I'm not going to link to it, but try Alton Brown's "The Chewy". It's a chocolate chip cookie recipe that will blow your mind. One tip - make the dough the evening before you want to bake the cookies. Put the work bowl in the fridge so the dough will firm up enough to scoop easily, and scoop them. You want to use a big disher (mine's about 1/3 c). Put them in an airtight container and put that in the fridge. Overnight is a must, but the longer the dough "brews" the better the cookies will be. :D

An adult should also know that there isn't a u in among.

I totally disagree with #2. My couch is on the low side. If I mounted the TV at the right height, it'd be too low and look totally idiotic. If I mounted it high enough to not look totally stupid, my viewing angle would be whack. So I'll continue to have a living room "taken over" by my TV (her words, not mine... I think wall-mounted TV's are just as conspicuous as ones on a piece of furniture).

I'm w/ @QueenOfTheFall - it's a taste I like. I can't imagine eggs prepared in any way w/o pepper. Sure, over-peppering something isn't good, but pepper (most often black but sometimes white) finds its way into almost everything I make. If there's some variety of chile or crushed red pepper in something, I do tend to omit the pepper.

@ATN654 - I hate to break it to you, but canning *is* popular because it does give (some) people a feeling of smug superiority. When people are going to the farmer's market and Whole Paycheck to procure produce to put up, it's moved beyond frugality and dealing with the overabundance of one's own garden into something else entirely.

Actually, no, luckysod. My bed is right up against the wall, just like I said in my comment.

The design looks just like everything else Layla and her husband have done, eh? What the PW's kids ended up with looks just like every other impractical thing the Novogratz machine has churned out with one notable exception - they didn't paint one wall some hard to look at, oversaturated color.