So after about only, what, 10 years, I finally made my first friends-chosen recipe: Zucchini Salad with Tomatoes and Basil Vinaigrette. Pictures and ramblings!

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I have far too many recipes bookmarked from online and I have no clue what I want to make next. So I'm asking my friends to help! Make a comment on this entry with the following ( Read more... )

Kind of an interesting device here: the neti pot, used to cleanse your nasal passages. I'd probably be more interested if my allergies were seasonal ( Read more... )

Don't think my recipe came out. I think I used the wrong bread crumbs. Dang. I used my precious supply of mint-chocolate chips on this one, too. I better take it out of the oven.

Book meme, ganked from Greysil.
# Grab the nearest book ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot more success in baking ventures lately than I have with stovetop-cooking ones -- probably because I tend to veer off cooking directions a lot more, with not always great results, and probably because now I know the "little" quirk of my oven being 100 degrees higher than what you put the knob at ( Read more... )

...that all the pictures we see in cookbooks are actually fake plastic food made by Japanese manufacturers that has only the vaguest resemblance to what the food REALLY looks like.

So I tried baking these little buggers today. Suffice to say my cookies came out almost NOTHING like how they look in the picture. About the only thing that looks the ( Read more... )

When I started cooking, I used to compare myself to Akane. Now, I'm comparing myself to Orihime(For those who don't get it, remember that wonderful Leekspin.com? That's Orihime. And she's spinning, well, a leek. And *that* scene was when she had one of her wonderful cooking ideas. Ah, Leekspin chose just *such* a beautiful picture because I think ( Read more... )