Tag: cooking
group name: kmapprentice
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February 04, 2009 06:54 PM EST --
It has been quite the winter around here, what with the cookbook coming out, my broken arm, and snowpocalypse! - and that was all last year! 2009 started with floods that shut down my state, . . .
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September 04, 2008 04:12 AM EDT --
W e interrupt the last 24 hours of writing, endlessly in progress, to say
I can haz cover!
Picture Yourself Cooking With Your Kids
Original . . .
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May 21, 2007 11:10 PM EDT --
When I wrote " Ask the Cook " I expected to get lots of questions on arcane and obscure techniques and ingredients, along with a few "stump the cook" queries. I got some of those-including an outstanding . . .
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April 14, 2007 06:11 PM EDT --
Many people, even accomplished cooks, approach yeasted bread with more than a bit of trepidation. While the vision of a beautifully risen loaf of bread with a glossy, caramelized crust lures many a would-be . . .
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July 17, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
Have you ever heard of an earworm? Unlike the little earwig bug, which does not actually crawl into your head and eat your brain, an earworm does just that. It is a tune that gets lodged in your brain . . .
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February 09, 2007 08:06 AM EST --
How much does a cup of flour weigh? Seems like a simple question, but it is actually anything but:
What kind of flour: all-purpose, cake, bread, pastry? (Whole grains just complicate this equation . . .
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February 27, 2007 07:17 PM EST --
For a number of years now, I have been fortunate enough to live in a house that had blueberry bushes in the garden. Right now I have about eight bushes, which having been attentively pruned and tended . . .
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June 01, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
"But we have to have turkey on Thanksgiving!"
"I always have chocolate cake on my birthday."
"If it snows, we get hot chocolate."
People can get downright dogmatic when . . .
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March 03, 2008 07:05 PM EST --
A ballerina floats across the darkened stage, a dying swan en pointe ... feathery light, ethereal... Anna Pavlova, in her signature role of the dying swan...
The Pavlova is one of those . . .
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January 30, 2008 06:04 PM EST --
A new cook has so many things to remember. All those terms (in French, no less); which tool to use for which task; how to take a whole, raw ingredient like a pineapple and turn it into pineapple slices; . . .
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November 14, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
When I went outside the other night to look for the newly dazzling Holmes comet , I noticed a distinct nip in the air and a slight crunch to the grass. Fall was creeping in on little cat feet. The . . .
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