Jaden's Steamy Kitchen is giving away fancy knives. And the post has some nice useful pictures of the honing process too.

I've been thinking of getting myself a Santoku, so I couldn't resist entering. Disclaimer: Oh, and by blogging about it, I'm more likely to win something. Ee! Such fun.

I brought homemade challah bread and honey butter to a couple of gatherings last October, and a couple of people asked for the recipes. The challah recipe is skyethebard's, although I've made at least one small change, due to my deep and abiding bias against margarine. You'll find details below. The honey butter is Alton Brown's, and you can get that here:

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These are a work of art.
Gorgeous, off-the-wall, and utterly covet-inducing.
I must have some of my very own!
Apple Frangipane Tartelettes With Cheesecake Ice Cream
~drools~

Read below to find out what happens to choc chip cookie dough when you fry it, boil it, toaster it, or microwave it.
Cakespy: How not to make Chocolate chip Cookies

Ok, I might have to break my Fish In Restaurants Rule(footnote 1).
I know the top looks like a photo blog, but read further down for the drool inducing scallops recipe.
Use Real Butter: A Break~ponders~ What would I feed Bitmonger while I'm at it? Should be something nice to compensate him, I'm thinking. Maybe something he likes that I don't ( Read more... )

Nova's Chickpeas

I first got this recipe from an acquaintance named Nova, who cooked these at my 2nd (I think) Pennsic, back when Lease ran the mealplan. so that's how it's titled in my recipe book. I believe there's an official name for this dish, like in another language, but I've got no clue what it is.
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The Food in My Beard: The Great Gnocchi Debate of 08

Highlights:
I prefer tomato sauce on my gnocchi, but she likes cream... well the whole thing really just continued to snowball and in the end we ended up making four types of gnocchi with two flavors and three sauces...

whew!

TastespottingI like the new look, so that you can see more than one picture on the main screen ( Read more... )

Tastespotting has been taken down. Nooooooooos!
What will I do? I guess I'll have to go look at the archives and indivdually subscribe to the food blogs I liked or sumthin. ~grumble~

Earl Grey Tea Ice Cream

Splash Dipping Bowls