Keritha's Profile

Shrimp have "feet" and squid have tentacles. I think there is much more horror in eating a chicken or pig that has been tortured for your pleasure than eating an insect full of protein and, let's face it, not much personality. I am sure when we were hunter-gatherers, we knew exactly what kind of insect was best and prepared in what ways.

I use lentils instead of meat in a vegetarian pastitsio. Make a flavorful tomato sauce with lentils (garlic, bay, cinnamon, onions) and layer it with elbow macaroni and a bechamel custard sauce on top to run down and bind it together. I think some mozzarella too. It's the best!!

I think of flax meal as a "fat" rather than a flour, even though it looks rather flour-y. It substitutes for oil in some recipes and I use it to get Omega-3s. I suggest it did not behave like flour in your pancakes.

Um, you can't wait to try the chickpea burgers? You might want to read the article first...turns out I can definitely wait!!

I would so turn that window into a door! when I could afford it, and a large porch or small deck outside!

When my husband (Italian) and I were first dating, I was cooking dinner and apologized for putting in too much garlic. He said with the utmost certainty: "Not Possible!" (If MIL says "Ooh, so much garlic!" Just say "Yes! Yum!")

@sriramalka, zucchini comes in a variety of sizes, from small to enormous. I would suggest weighing them when you buy them and then you know about how much each one weighs.

Those do not look like *my* used spoons! They look brand-new! Cute idea, but a tad expensive?

Bobolink, the recipe says 8 servings, but this is a huge cake and very rich. I just made it for a church potluck and I would say 20 people had enough to know it was very good! (I did make it incorrectly, with more graham crackers per layer than called for, because the 9 x 13 pan holds more than the six.) I can't imagine getting down 1/8 of this cake!!

Long, long ago when the world was young there was a contraption called a "double boiler." It consisted of a larger pan for boiling water, cleverly constructed to hold within it a smaller pan. To reheat pasta or anything, 1) boil water in the big pan 2) put the pasta in the smaller pan 3) put smaller pan inside bigger pan 4) heat pasta until hot and delicious enough. I wonder if you can even buy them any more.