7 things you should make, not buy: Food from scratch. Interested in uplifting stories on the natural world, sustainable communities, simple food, and new thinking on how to live well? Please enter a valid email address and try again! No thanks. Beer and Food Pairings at Epicurious. F or centuries, if you asked a restaurant server in any mid-range to upscale American eatery what drink to pair with a certain dish, he'd bring over the sommelier and a wine bottle negotiation would ensue. But in the last five years, there's been a paradigm shift: Beer has made it onto the menu as more than an afterthought. Beverage directors, chefs, and even wine lovers have learned that beer has an amazing capacity to pair with all kinds of foods. As a result, beer sommeliers have popped up in cities across the country, especially Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Portland, Oregon.
Beer-and-food tasting events have multiplied exponentially—the monthly lists at beerfestivals.org are enormous. Beer may actually be more food-friendly than wine is. Food and beer pairing issues: Complementary or contrasting flavors? Comparing beer to wine Some people say lager is like white wine and ale is like red. Examples: Medium Body Wines: Merlot, Zinfandel, Syrah Beers: Ale, IPA, Bock. That Chocolate Cake [recipe] – Winner of the Scharffen Berger Chocoholic’s Overdose. You know what they say on the Pageant circuit. If for some reason the reigning Miss America can’t fulfill her duties…It’s the same on the TasteSpotting Giveaway circuit…if our original winner doesn’t claim the prize, we give the Scharffen Berger Haul to the next chosen chocoholic…Jean!
Congrats Jean, and to everyone else, thanks SO MUCH for playing along, Stay tuned, we’re announcing more winners from recent giveaway and more new giveaways! On this very last day of January, we’re tying up loose ends in preparation of not only the start of a new month, but a brand (Chinese) new year. We’re cleaning out our queue, which includes a recipe and post for That Chocolate Cake. Wait, which chocolate cake? That Chocolate Cake. You know, That Chocolate Cake from Scharffen Berger’s Essence of Chocolate cookbook. Oh. That Chocolate Cake. We originally baked the cake for National Chocolate Cake Day (January 27), but we had trouble typing up the post with all that frosting on our fingers.
Ingredients: Perfect Iced Coffee. Iced coffee is my life. When I wake up, often around the time party animals on the west coast are just heading home, I start each day not with a cup of freshly brewed hot java, but with a tall, blessed glass of creamy iced coffee in a glass. I’ve been an iced coffee freakazoid for years and years. To say I couldn’t live without it is an understatement. It gives me the tools I need to cope. Iced coffee is a complicated thing, and there are many different approaches. One would think that one could merely pour brewed coffee into a glass full of ice and call it a day…but I find that method extremely flawed. First, no matter how packed with ice the glass is, once the hot coffee hits, some of the ice is bound to melt. 1.
Given the previous set of facts, one would assume that the logical solution would be to brew hot coffee, then transfer the brew to the fridge, allow it to cool, and use it to make iced coffee from there. I start with a big ol’ container. Rip open a pound of ground coffee. Pizza Monkey Bread Recipe. Pizza Braid | Busy Mommy: An Iowa Mom Blog - StumbleUpon. A pizza braid is very kid-friendly, easy on the wallet and extremely simple to make.
My aunt and cousin first introduced me to them and I’ve been hooked ever since. The possibilities are endless of the varieties you could make (check out the Apple Dessert Braid!) , but the recipe below is for a very basic hamburger and pepperoni braid. You could make your own dough, but I prefer the shortcut of using Rhodes rise and bake dough. This is one of my favorite shortcuts to make a nice loaf of bread or use in recipes like this one. As I said, this is extremely basic. The dough takes a few hours to rise, so I take it out in the morning and place a towel over it.
Yes, yes the dough in that photo has not risen fully. Then you spread out the sauce, lay the meats down, followed by the cheese. Then with a pizza cutter, start cutting about 1 inch thick strips down the whole rectangle. Follow the pictures above. A few minutes before it’s done I brush with olive oil and sprinkle with oregano. Oreo Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies « Amandeleine. I wasn’t lying about the Oreos. This is actually a thing.
This is a whole Oreo stuffed inside a very large, very delicious chocolate chip cookie. This is serious business people. I don’t joke about cookies inside of other cookies. I don’t even have good flavour text to go with this recipe. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Make cookie dough. Scoop dough. Smoosh around a double stuff Oreo in its entirety. Bake. Eat. Yeah. So I’m just going to drop this recipe in front of you guys and back away slowly. Recipe from Picky Palate via BonAppetit.com This is not my usual Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, but I suspected that mine would spread too much and reveal its delicious innards prematurely, so I used the cookie recipe included in the original recipe. Ingredients Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Cream butter and sugars together with a mixer until well combined.
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