MegP's Profile

Two of my favorite things -- chocolate and whiskey! Thanks for this recipe!

You may think it's great to boss grown people around if it makes a party that much more exciting, but not everybody goes to dinner parties to meet new people. I would be miffed if I was excited about catching up with an old friend visiting from out of town, and got seated next to the boss's wife who thinks her children are fascinating dinner conversation to strangers. I think it's okay to suggest seating to people who are hesitating to sit, but to imply your dinner party was boring because of seating may be overlooking the basic personality deficiencies of your guests, and potentially yourself.

I have definitely noticed that one of my burners, while a small one in the back, is the hottest. I only use that one for boiling water for pasta!

My mom always used an electric mixer, and so did I until my boyfriend's mom gave me a potato masher. I never knew how much tastier mashed potatoes were mashed rather than whipped! I have the metal zigzag kind.

Definitely, a wine tasting at a vineyard is the way to go to learn about different grapes and the wine produced from them.

Are these the mothy things that make a puff of dust when you kill them? Then yes, I've had these, and they came from a plastic bag of cornmeal mix.

I agree about other peoples' dirty fridges. Spills, smears, and splatters gross me out. I don't have a regular schedule for cleaning my fridge but if something drips, I definitely clean it up right away!

I second the stock pot. If you could afford only one pan, this would be it. You can cook ANYTHING in it and it can even double as a mixing bowl. You people who can't part with your cast iron skillets must not eat much soup.

I made the chocolate chip cookie dough truffles and the molten lava cakes from the Pioneer Woman's site this month. The lava cakes were INCREDIBLE, the truffle recipe was good but could have easily been halved. Also made a ribeye steak per thekitchn's instructions for Valentine's Day and it came out great!

I have heard this argument before that one can't afford to shop anywhere but Wal-mart, and I think it's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard, akin to "I HAVE to eat fast food, I'm too busy to cook." Humans survived for thousands of years without Wal-marts, and you can too, if you try.

Wal-mart is the world's largest retailer, and also has a terrible reputation, and therefore is under close scrutiny. I was very interested in Greenpeace's report on sustainable fishing practices. Wal-mart stood fairly high in the rankings of stores that stock fish caught with sustainable practices -- and Greenpeace has created an entire SITE devoted to slamming Trader Joe's, which ranked poorly.