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and burn my house down. Was making dirty rice over the holdiays and turned the burner on under my 7quart oven to brown the meats and realized I had forgotton something at the store. so went to store. across town. Went by brothers house. visited. Drove home, walked in and there it is, dry as a...

audeo et al, listen up. I've spent a fortune one the Scharffen Berger choc.'s this week. 2lbs of semi (for cherries, misc. fruit) 2 lbs of UNSWEETENED...now, I'm thinking of flourless choc. cake, or something else that the choc. is the star of. So here's the challange. Best uses for different...

well I'm doing them this weekend to put on the sweet potatos. I'm also making fresh green bean cassarole w/homemade cream of mushroom soup from Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook. Took someones suggestion, including making the onion rings. Fresh cranberry sauce from Epicurious.com and...

crashed last weekend. can you repost over on desserts? I looked over there and went back to July w/no luck. thanks. (cherries are in the burbon!)

is not confectioners, I know that. I also know that you can grind granulated sugar to get superfine....but not ever having seen superfine sugar, I'm not sure how fine to process it. anyone care to describe the end result for someone who really should know this? I am making an angel food cake and...

I'd like to see what exactly you'd want to do with the holidays if you had total control and a lot of money. from decor to food, table linens to wine. let me have it, please. 2 mains, 6 sides, 4 salads,6 desserts....min.

a couple of weeks ago! My favorite show "Desperate Housewives" Sooooo who would you be??? Although I'm a redhead, I don't have a corncob up my rear, so I wouldn't quite fit with that character. But I am anal about a couple of things like principles and cooking so I can't entirely rule her out...

the top will do reg. and convection. the bottom is a normal oven. after a couple of problems (cabinets cut out too small) they are in place and working. I trust no appliance to do my 'figuring' for me, but the convection has a program where you can tell it what you'd normally cook the dish at...

I've been picking up their dried fruits/spices etc. Has anyone played with these products before? I bought some dried organic cherries and was going to try to use them in audeo's choc.covered cherry recipe. figured I'll rename them bourbon cherrys! (they're dehydrated, so where do you think all...

my sister bought me an apple peeler! I've seen them in the Cracker Barrell resturants, but figured they'd be one of those pain in the ___ things with a thousand parts and would just be a waste of money. so it languished. Last week I bought fresh apples for pie and looked down and there is was so...

girls, boys, 10/10 for the class...need ideas for scavengar party quick.

"A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a whore who looks at her watch." "A gourmet restaurant in Cinncinnati is one where you leave the tray on the table after you eat." "The most dangerous food is wedding cake." "Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."...

now that halloween is over, there should be plenty of leftover candy out there to cure everyone's munchies. I've got about 40 bags of mini m&m's that i'm gonna throw in cc cookies, it's too bad I don't make gingerbread houses. maybe I'll try one this year. anyone have a good use for blowpops?

watche alton brown explain all the pie crust tricks the other night, and I do all that...lard, prebaking etc. and that's fine for single crust pies. What about 2 crust? How does one get a nice, thick, non gooey bottom crust, especially w/fruit pies? I think the trick is the thickener..mine never...

and keep seeing these cool hand made marshmallows in Williams-Sonoma and choc.dipped ones in Pottery barn. so of course I figured I could make them myself. a week ago I flippen on fn and caught the VERY end of someone making the marshmallows!!! I think it was the guy who normally makes all those...

I love crab cakes, and make them when ever I can-but I found a recipe on www.epicurious.com for shrimp and sweet potato cakes that is awsome if anyone was looking for something a little different for the holidays. I made them as appetizers and served them w/the chipolte mayo. very, very good...

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I am a 'good' baker, but have small ovens. I need to feed 50 at a birthday party, do you think I should bake 2 sheet cakes and put them together, or (as my son suggests) make like a wedding cake, layerd thing? also, need good recipes...scratch, hard is ok. especially the icing. problem here is...

I'll let ya'll think about this overnight, but since I've raised my kids on music I was very interested in your selections... they ask me mine, and it's time I thought about it.

I've been trying to duplicate some of the dishes I made when I was first married and trying to do everything 'right'. One of them was the Mccall's recipe for choc. mousse. I have the recipe, but cannot believe that recipe! I remember it was wonderful, but then I was 19 and very thin, if I tried...

Like apples and cinnamon, and allmost any warm spice. like peaches w/the above w/almonds beans w/summer savory itilian sausage w/roasted red peppers. liver and onions/bacon manchango cheese and quince paste tarrragon w/the crab dish,,,try it .