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I would like to make a beer-butter, specifically a sweet Oatmeal-Stout Butter for some delicious pretzel-style dinner rolls. Usually we have Honey-Mustard Butter which easily incorporates, but it's time for a change. Does anyone have any advice how I can get the beer into the butter? I thought...

Hello, all: I was perusing some of DC's (and others') roasty toasty seasoned and/or candied almonds recipes, and I can't find any Maple Almond recipes. We're making spiced almonds for Xmas and I'd like a unique candied version to serve alongside. Any ideas?

Can I use Pectin as a general thickening agent? Hello everyone. I am helping my brother make non-dairy cream cheese frosting. He tried it last year with Tofutti Better Than Cream Cheese, but the fake cream cheese was too runny to pipe onto cupcakes. He tried adding unflavored gelatin to no...

Does anyone know if soymilk can be used as a substitute when making custards? I am making a bread pudding that calls for heavy cream. I have used Lactaid in the past, but I'd like this one to be richer. I have also seen that some people use coconut milk as a cream substitute. Would that be...

I picked up white pepper this week at Penzey's. It just always seemed like something any good kitchen should have. I used it for the first time today in my Haluski and it made everything stink!! I mean STINK stink.:sick: Stunk so bad that the braising cabbage smell was overpowered. So what's...

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Who else has pics of their furry ones "helping out" in the kitchen?

I've got a slew o' zukes and a pound of pecans so I'd like to make a zucchini-bread-type pecan upside down cake. Googling comes up with ZERO! Can you believe that? I thought I'd just find a nice zucchini cake/bread recipe and pour it on top of some pecans and brown sugar, but I hoped...

Please excuse me for not rotating my images... Our blackberries are as big as my head this year, but they are not ripening uniformly black: You can see that they have the white spots before they even ripen: BF claims that the spotted ones taste "funky." Is this a fungus or disease? Can I...

At a restaurant this week, the chef was featuring his White Balsamic Vinaigrette. Our server said, "Chef says all balsamic vinegar is white before they color it." Mom noticed that I didn't nod in agreement as she expects me to when when people share "food facts." When the server left Mom said "I...

No it's not a hookah! This is reportedly a German drinking vessel of some sort. Apparently you play some sort of drinking game with it and alternate suck-holes as you pass it around the table. I tried to google a bunch of different phrases and can't come up with anything. Any ideas? Those are...

I have several Japanese cukes over 12 inches long now (One is nearly 18"). But even the largest has sharp spiky thorns on it. I assumed the fruits would "tell" me when to harvest by smoothing the spikes into merely bumps, but now I'm not so sure. I read online that if you wait too long to...

note: In an effort to NOT steal Canada Day's spotlight, I refrained from starting this thread on actual Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day (July 1).:smile: So, Happy Belated Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day! What kind of creative flavors of ice cream have you made or eaten? I once ate pink...

I plan to make-ahead country style spareribs in th epressure cooker on the 3rd of July, and then Slap em on the Barbie on the 4th to heat through & caramelize the sauce. I will miss the nice flavor I get from cooking the meat on the smoker and wondered if I could put some liquid smoke in the...

I have a 7 year old darling cat that I love to have sleep next to me in bed (even if BF doesn't love it so much:hammer:). But as he gets older (the cat:cat:) he is getting needier and louder (as cats do). He has this bad habit of jumping all over my head and face and slobbering all over me in...

I got this beautiful (IMO) stainless coffee urn I bought at the flea market. She cleans up nice. $5! I have a question, though. I never used a percolator of any sort. Will the electric type percolator stop on its own or do I have to unplug it to make it stop? There are no switches or buttons...

YouTube - Crazy Calls - answering machine tape TV ad Wait for the beep.. you gotta leave your name, you gotta leave your number... These were the COOLEST! Does anyone even have answering machines anymore? Does anyone even have land lines anymore???

And a Happy Birthday to you, JoAnn! Any big plans? Whatcha eatin?

Happy Birthday Sattie!!!!

I have 2 red currant bushes that are giving me fruit for the first time this year. I have NO IDEA what to do with them. I know I can use them in sauce for meats like pork, and that I can make red currant jam. But I don't have a terrible bunch of them. I have maybe 2 cups harvested and ready to...

Whipped Cream/Berries & Mint for Garnish Raspberry Sauce Mascarpone Whipped Cream Strawberries Raspberry Mousse Lemon Pound Cake Recipe here: Red Berry Mascarpone Trifle

This is old news, but new to me. In China, you get only one trip to the Pizza Hut salad bar, and a very small bowl. So it is somewhat of an underground sport to try to outsmart the Pizza Hut powers-that-be. The trick is to try to construct a large bowl "extension" made of stackable salad bar...

4 Portobello Mushroom Caps 1 Eggplant 1 Zucchini 1 Yellow Squash 1 Yellow Bell Pepper 1 Orange Bell Pepper 1 Red Bell Pepper 1 lb. Asparagus 1...

This is the first year we've yielded a crop from our strawberry patch. It is a relatively large plot for the city yard with 25 plants. I am getting the most beautiful, sweet, large berries. We put hay down under the plants (I read somewhere to do that). But, I will see a pink berry and think...

My niece works in the luxury boxes at Mellon Arena, where the Red Wings and Penguins played in Pittsburgh for the Stanley Cup championship. Sadly for us in Pittsburgh, Detroit won the cup here in Mellon Arena.:cry: That night, my niece was working the suite belonging to the owners of the Red...