Holy crap, this is fascinating: how to make sugar into caramel without melting it, and use it for baking. And it has a lower glycemic index! Weird. So I tried it last night--made 4 lbs of "caramel sugar", and then made oatmeal-ginger cookie dough tonight. We shall discover tomorrow what the results are ( Read more... )

You know that thing where, the less often you post, the less comfortable you are posting? Yeah, that's a real problem. So this is a compilation of like three weeks' worth of links that I never got around to posting.

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Be friends with me secretly or get wrecked: The serial swatter is a horrifying tale.

Noted for (possibly much) later: a long ( Read more... )