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25Jan
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24Jan
It’s a surreal twist of fate that has placed the best chocolate chip cookies in Dupont, not at Teaism with it’s Cakelove-created baked goods, and not at Marvelous Market or Firehook Bakery, lovely tho their other products are. The best chocolate chip cookies in Dupont are at Joe Muggs caf -
21Jan
Pepper is a wonderful spice, single- handedly causing bloody trade wars in the Middle East, and allowing Europeans to eat taste-disguised rotted meat in the middle ages. Carrying on that great tradition A whole bunch of protestors at yesterdays inauguration got themselves pepper sprayed on Pennsylvania Ave . We hope everyone’s alright.
Picture from NYTimes.com. I know, I know, if pepper spray actually has any pepper in it it’s probably the other kind of pepper. Forgive, its hard to come up with a pun in a hurry. -
21Jan
While dandruff is just fine for making Maple Syrup Candy, I prefer snow. Making candy is easier than shoveling, and you have to get rid of it somehow (the snow, not the dandruff, for which shoveling should only be used for the most extreme cases). When you’re snowed in this weekend thanks to weather-induced metro shutdowns, you can crunch away on this stuff comfortable in the knowledge that you’re doing your part to keep the walkway clear.- Fill a large flat tray with well packed snow
- Pour about two cups of maple syrup into a saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly
- Test if it’s hot enough by pouring a dollop on the snow. It should stay on the surface, hardening into a pretty amber squiggle. If it sinks into the snow you have a snow cone. Tasty, but it won’t get you out of shoveling.
- When the syrup starts staying on the snow’s surface when you apply it, pour the rest out in long thin strips. As soon as it cools, remove and dry the pieces.
- Fill a large flat tray with well packed snow
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21Jan
I’d like to take a moment for the really odd strings that readers enter into search engines to get here. Just from this last day or two, a couple of my favorites:- Is soho a train
- Fire Marshall Bill
- babies cooked in china
- girls in white shirts
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20Jan
Well, I finally got to meet “Good Eats” host Alton Brown, and boy, did I make an impression on him! The man finds me -
20Jan
Oh no! Not tofu! Everyone’s favorite food to hate no matter how many times we’re told it’s healthy. Just think of it as an edible sponge that soaks up flavors – well -
19Jan
Each of the Food Network hosts attracts a certain type of fan. There are the housewives who think Tyler Florence is hot, the couples who find Emeril’s “Bam!”s and “Another Notch!”es zany and enthusiastic rather than phoned-in and phony. And there are those who can manage to get past Rachel Ray’s saccharine and excessive use of the term “E.V.O.O.” to enjoy her quick-and-easy recipes.
“Good Eats” host Alton Brown doesn’t attract fans. He attracts disciples.
You know the type: they tape his episodes and have the remote control at the ready as they prepare their turkey on Thanksgiving, ready to pause as Alton guides them on temperature, amount of time and amount of thyme. They ONLY use kosher salt when cooking, and proudly display theirs in an Alton-inspired vessel. When their kid is suffering from a fever, their digital meat probe’s probably more at the ready than a normal thermometer.
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19Jan
The worst thing that can happen to your body, barring bus collisions, falling off a cliff, or using any product from the Body Shop, is to live next to a Chipotle. But right up there at # 2 is knowing that Jandara of Woodly Park is on your way home from work every day.
I am not even gonna try to be unbiased here. In a city of mediocre Thai restaurants, Jandara is tasty and fast. In an area of touristy, food, Jandara is cheap and incidentally very pretty. One evening you look up after picking your plate clean to discover that these factors have brought you back there every day for a week.
After much research entirely in the name of culinary inquiry, I suggest:- Chicken with green curry – Actually, get this just for the chili coconut sauce. I
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18Jan
On Saturday, I got ventured to fellow F
