I know it's been forever since I posted here...and this isn't a real post anyway. But I thought most people on my flist would get a kick out of the following article.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2008/8/15burns.html

I've had an odd realization. I hoard recipes. I love to get new cookbooks and flip through them and think about making this recipe or that recipe. I get several cooking magazines and religiously clip recipes from them that i then file away in a carefully designed filing system. I read several food blogs and obsessively tag any recipes that ( Read more... )

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Just a friendly reminder to all you out there. The federal government offers a program to let people of a certain income level or below file their taxes online free. They do this by requiring every online tax preparation service to have a free version, but it's not well advertised. Here's the government site giving a bit more info and links to ( Read more... )

Since it seems to be going around again:
http://kevan.org/johari?name=starkraving_mad

Evidently a group in Germany are researching how to make people temporarily autistic to increase their productivity/focus. No joke. I'd say this is kinda ludicrous, but from the teeny tiny description they give, I'd totally give that a try. Leave a comment  1 

I made Korean-style short ribs last night from a recipe I found online and despite the recipe being full of everything good and being slow-cooked for hours while still on the bone, it somehow turned out rather bland. The flavor was good, what there was of it, but there just wasn't enough of anything. Sigh ( Read more... )

Rachael gave me truffle salt for my birthday and it's the best thing ever. Seriously. Like instant truffle flavor added to anything. So far I've had it on eggs and I've put it in a zucchini-pasta-ricotta casserole. Love.

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I never thought I'd actually say this, but I had entirely too much bacon last night ( Read more... )