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I made some carne guisada two weeks ago and it came out great - really tasty. I also tried making a lowfat vanilla bean cheesecake and completely boched it - it came out kind of browned and scrambled. What a waste of two vanilla beans :). After studying I better understand the science of making...

Hi, I am fairly new to cooking so I'd like some advice. I'm making a flourless chocolate cake for Christmas and want to glaze it with a peppermint flavored chocolate glaze. For my glaze I use about 6 ounces of bittersweet chocolated and a tablespoon and a half of butter melted and mixed...

I figured it out. The solution is actually simple - I just needed to add more water to the recipe until the dough formed properly. I was just setting it and walking away before. I guess my bread machine needed more water than some of the recipes I tried specified.

I have been trying a few soft/fluffy white bread recipes for my bread maching and it seems to always turn them into a lumpy mess - it never gets the ingredients to a dough state so it never forms a loaf and barely rises at all. I dump out a lumpy inedible mess out of the bread pan at the end of...