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This is a family recipe for me as well. I think we called it "Chocolate Fudge Pudding Cake". I love the gooey pudding that it makes. We used to pour milk over the top of ours. Probably because we didn't often have ice cream in the freezer. One of my favourite desserts!

This is my all time favourite cooking with beer recipe: Beer Braised Chicken Recipe from Claire Robinson. It goes great with egg noodles!

I love it with a little cream cheese on a cracker. Yum yum! It's also yummy on top of a Caesar salad. Mmmmm.

Female here - Interesting article and research. I had never put much thought to it before, but I would have to agree that I find meat to be masculine. I never shy away from ordering a giant steak at a restaurant, but if you asked me to assign a gender to steak or hamburger, I would pick male.

The ideas about why women were in the foraging, cooking roles really do make sense. I would have thought it went way back to the neanderthals but the findings that neanderthal women were hunters too was eye opening.

Thanks for linking to the article. It was a great read!

Hah! I love it.

These totally remind me of Teeny Little Super Guy from Sesame Street!

I think this gets said a lot around here, but I have long since stopped trying to make my child play with toys that please my aesthetic sensibilities. In fact the more garish the toy, the more he seems to enjoy it. Bath time toys, right now, are some tub crayons and an empty yogurt container that he LOVES.

That bike wine carrier is awesome.

Those spoons are really beautiful. The Etsy seller does say that the coloured handle shouldn't come in contact with food though. With the colour going that close to the spoon bit I'd be afraid of getting cookie dough, pasta sauce etc. on the coloured part (hey, I'm a messy cook, what can I say?). I may need to buy them just to display though. Beautiful. Love the Avocado colour she has as well! The creamers are beautiful too.

I have entirely too many small appliances that I never use. What can I say? Got scan-happy for our wedding registry..

I'm in love with our Kitchen Aid mixer, it was a gift so we didn't have to shell out the cash. We don't use it all the time, but when we do it's a lifesaver. We usually make baked goods for all of our neighbours come Christmas time and I think we would spend a lot more time mixing with a hand mixer or wooden spoon than we do now! I can whip up a batch of cookies, loaf of bread or pizza dough in minutes. It's awesome.

I'd love to ditch our microwave (it's currently above our stove as the hood fan and I HATE it) but it's the one appliance that gets used daily without fail.

We never use the food processor or immersion blender we have and the hand mixer only gets used if there isn't enough counter space to bring out the Kitchen Aid mixer. Our blender gets used semi-regularly (enough that I couldn't do away with it). And I have to admit that we do own the Baby Bullet (also a gift!), which was awesome to make pureed baby foods and now is sitting in the cupboard waiting for the next baby.

The slow cooker is slowly getting more use and we have a toaster, not a toaster oven (no need for both). With my oven so quick to heat up and the fact that I'm usually cooking for at least 2 people (if not more) I don't see the need for a toaster oven as well.

We have a Nespresso machine which I LOVE. Since my husband doesn't drink coffee, it always felt wasteful making a pot that would just sit there after I was done. With the Nespresso I can make my own single cappuccino. Great fun when we have guests over. I love playing Barista!

I have a stovetop kettle and an electric kettle and although I love the look of our stovetop one, the electric one is so much faster and holds a lot more water, so it gets more use. We do have an insulated tea pot which is really nice to use when making a big batch of tea. It stays warm all day and I can sip away!

No juicer, waffle maker or food dehydrator here. Never felt I needed any of those. I do have a panini press, but it never gets used.

One of my friends purchased most of her appliances second-hand when she moved out of her parents place since she didn't really know what she was going to use most often. After using them for a while she has now started investing in newer or better quality appliances, but only the ones she uses most often. I thought it was a brilliant idea! Especially if you have very little storage space.

Ok, I think it's time to have a garage sale now after doing that inventory!