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Ben & Jerry's briefly had a flavor named 'Strawberry SNFU' which contained white fudge/chocolate covered pop rocks! It was one of my favorites from them.

I hate tile countertops! For all the reasons people have already mentioned. The unevenness is the worst part for me, if a cuttingboard is even jiggling around the slightest bit without a towel under it, it drives me nuts.

Silicone canele molds don't give you the exact same product as the metal ones, but they are leaps and bounds and universes beyond cheaper than copper, which are upwards of 25 - 30$ PER PIECE. Buying a set of those is a lifetime investment.

Statigram is fantastic.

I've wished for years that wine & beer makers were required to list all ingredients. Someone just bought me a questionable six-pack the other day that made me cringe wish I knew what went into the product.

The "To have a long list makes it look like anti­freeze," snippet is completely unfounded, considering the long ingredient lists on other food stuffs that people have been consuming for 50 years or more.

It's "hear, hear."

But that aside, I can relate to wanting to cook things the way you'd like to eat them and selfishly not compromising dishes for the benefit of others, but I make exceptions for food preferences and dietary restrictions on a per serving basis if it's possible, because I want to feed ALL of my friends and I want my guests to be happy but I also want to still serve certain dishes the way they're supposed to be served.

Oh yeah, I also did turmeric in white chocolate (with a few drops of vegetable oil to thin it out), and when the little bit of it was eaten with the cake I couldn't taste it at all, and I used quite a bit of the spice.

Yeah, yikes. Put them directly on the rack with a pan on the one under it.

Second the tip to not blanch for too long, then you're just boiling - they should still be almost crisp and vibrantly colored. I've never timed myself, but I don't usually leave anything in the water for more than a couple minutes.

If you want them to stay REALLY vibrant, shock in an ice bath directly out of the blanching water.

Just last night as we were eating dinner my darling boyfriend started talking about something which involved the use of the words "pig shit" and I butt-in immediately with, "really, honey? Eating."

Health problems, dietary restrictions, and food guilt and definitely big appetite killers for me.

Though we did attend a nice sit down dinner a few weekends ago where we all talked about IUD's and women's health for most of the evening, because that's what most of the people there do for work, and it didn't feel inappropriate at all.