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Lucy Knisley - CHAI!

Lucy Knisley - CHAI!
Oh sweet! I'm totally going to use this, thanks. if you go to middle eastern stores, or even indian stores cardamon is waaay waaaaay cheaper. stop buying ethnic ingredients at chain grocery stores- they over charge!! same goes with pomegranate juice... or figs... or dates. I love it when your comics take a turn to the psychedelic side... Holy cow I'm doing this the second I get home from work. Ok, yeah, definitely making a bigger batch next time. I used to get the best Chai tea from the cafe at Borders when I worked there, for some reason I've never had better! Yeah, they had great Chai...then their cafes became Seattle's Best and the good Chai could never be had again. are you planning to publish a book of the various comic recipes you've been making? Twinings had a nice Indian Spice Chai in tea bags, which is nice. Oh wow this is the coolest recipe ever! Cardamom is a lovely, lovely spice, and makes a fabulous spiced sweetened bread. I can't WAIT to try this recipe now. try Oregon Chai.

7 Steps to Sell Anything to Anyone | It’s astonishing to me when I have a discussion with most copywriters, marketers and entrepreneurs and they desperately look for the best approach to communicate or market a written message – when the most obvious tools are staring them right in the face. What’s even more bewildering to me is that many of them have to look for the “best way” to motivate prospects to purchase their product or services – instead of first understanding what automatically actuates them to act. If you haven’t judged what the most noticeable tools are that’s staring you right in the face, its unconscious psychological devices – more particularly, the thinking habits of every brain on the face of the planet earth. The idea of mind control has always been tempting to copywriters, salespeople, marketers and entrepreneurs. 1. There’s something magical that occurs when you tell a story. 2. Here’s the posture: “You already wish for and own this product and let me explain you what it’s like to.” 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 1. 2.

eat make readCategory: best of 2008 This was originally posted on June 30, 2008. Simple and delicious. This recipe is laced with cinnamon and topped with fresh blueberries. Awesome! When I was stuck in airports a few weeks ago, I ended up buying more than my share of magazines. One of them, O magazine, had a whole article about blueberries and tasty recipes to make with them. This weekend I picked up a pint of blueberries at the market eager to get started on my unconventional focaccia recipe. When I pulled the bread out of the oven it was a beautiful sight. Blueberry Focaccia from O magazine I cut my recipe in half and it worked out well. 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast 2 1/4 cups warm water 6 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup light brown sugar 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 large egg 6 Tbsp. unsalted butter, room temperature Vegetable oil, for greasing 2 pints (5 to 6 cups) blueberries1 In a small bowl, mix yeast and water; set aside until foamy, about 5 minutes.

Giant M&M Cookies This is how you make gooey, chewy, massive rainbow cookies that make everyone in life love your guts. Lookie here! You don’t even need a mixer. Add some super cute rainbow candies… aka mini m&m’s. This is the weird part. Bake cookies like this. Not even joking. While your cookies are baking, admire the adorable slash colorful slash overflowing bowl of mini m&m’s that you opened two bags of m&m’s for just so you could show all of your invisible internet friends what an m&m bathtub looks like. After your cookies bake and cool and you inevitably burn the skin off the roof of your mouth because you’re really a child with no patience, flip it over and look at how pretty it’s cookie butt is. Stack up some giant rainbow cookies and set them by your overflowing m&m bathtub bowl. Talk to your cookies because they are so pretty and perfect. This recipe was sent to me by a reader, Gabrielle (Hi Gabrielle!) Giant Rainbow Cookies makes 18 large or 36 small cookies 2 cups + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

Butterbeer recipe | Chica and Jo UPDATE: I’ve tweaked this recipe based on more research done at Universal. Be sure to take a look at our updated Butterbeer recipe to see the new ingredient! I’ve been a huge Harry Potter fan since the second book came out and my husband brought it home on the recommendation of a co-worker. So we were very excited when we had the opportunity this summer to visit the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. As fun as it was that day, it was also hot. On that hot afternoon, I preferred the frozen version (a slushie consistency) but I liked the regular drink a little bit better overall. The mugs were really cute as well. But how would I make the mug? I picked out some really pretty glass mugs that I wanted to use, making sure that were big enough for my stencil, which measures about 4″ x 2-3/4″. Start by thoroughly cleaning your mugs with rubbing alcohol. Now VERY carefully remove the white backing from your stencil. But wait, there’s more! Huh? It’s easy to do, too. But wait !

Black and White Old Pictures of Pets You are here: Home / Dogs / Black and White Old Pictures of Pets Keep in themselves represent a kind of memories, especially when they are on your pets … especially when you find something like this and these are pictures in black and white from the beginning and middle of the twentieth century … Pets Foto Daily Choose justJENN recipes » Whipped Cream cupcakes I’d heard of this – a cake with no butter or oil? Huh. I had to try it but I didn’t like the way the ingredients were laid out in the recipes that I had found. So I made up my own. It turned out GREAT. ingredients: 1 cup heavy whipping cream 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1-3/4 cups cake flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a bowl whisk together the cake flour, salt and baking powder. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the whipped cream until stiff peaks form – don’t go TOO FAR of you will get butter! Add the sugar and the vanilla. Carefully add the flour mixture until combined. Spoon batter into the liners, filling the cups up halfway. I like these frosted with Coffee Buttercream, and I topped them with cute little Cafe Latte chocolate pearls from Godiva. I love the lightness of this cake and it’s easy to make when you’re out of butter!

Puffy Peanut Butter Cookies with Chocolate Chips I have cookie moods. Occasionally, I crave a paper thin cookie – the only kind my dad really likes – when I’m aching for dessert with a raging sweet tooth that just won’t quit. Other days, when I’m reaching for comfort and sometimes feel like eating my emotions, I look for the perfectly thick, chewy cookie, still gooey from the oven, plucked from it’s baking sheet in pieces because I lack patience. This temperamental relationship I share with cookies proves just what a lunatic I am when it comes to food. Bizarre? Now you know. After scrubbing the kitchen floor last week on my hands and knees, pretending to clean the bathrooms but really just touching up the spots that everyone see, being extensively domestic and cooking four dinners in a row, I was craving three things. So… I made cookies. Many words came to mind with my first bite: warm, gooey, melt-in-your-mouth delicious, ecstasy… but before I recount a trashy romance novel for you, I gotta tell you this: they were puffy. 1/2 cup sugar

Clear Skin From the Inside Out : Green Smoothies Green Smoothie In, Radiant Glow Out Her 5-year-old butt sat firmly planted on the chair, not by will. By force. Psychic mom-force. Giant, wracking sobs shook her body, as she swallowed for air through the hands over her tortured mouth. “Just ten,” the apron-wearing fascist in the kitchen yelled. She was alone. On which was … an entire serving of peas. (“Just ten,” she thought, sobbing even in her brain.) Delicately, as if it were toxic waste, she pinched a pea between her tiny thumb and forefinger. “One.” “Two.” “Three.” Enough to save her, she hoped. “Don’t be so melodramatic! The fascist in the kitchen would never relent. Three days a week. Until one day, she won. Yes. So for the longest time, I was really hesitant to try this green smoothie (or green monster, depending on which part of the internet you’re on) thing, because … sometimes I’m still that little girl, pinching her nose and gagging. This has not happened with a single green smoothie I’ve ever made. Why? Related Posts:

I am an atheist. I don't believe in God by Matt Slick An atheist is defined primarily in two senses: Someone who says he believes there is no God, and someone who simply lacks belief in God. An atheist cannot rationally say he knows there is no God, because he would have to know all things in order to know if there is or isn't a God. An agnostic says he doesn't know if there is or isn't a God. If there is no God as you say, then in the end I lose nothing. Why don't you believe in God? The Bible doesn't attempt to prove that God exists.

Homemade Girl Scout Cookies: Samoas Bars I love the look of the original Samoas Girl Scout Cookies, but making them from scratch can be a little bit time consuming. This is largely because the dough must be rolled out, cut out and then each of the cookies has to be handled individually for topping. The results are well worth it, in my opinion, but we don’t always have time to make a labor-intensive recipe – no matter how bad a craving for Girl Scout cookies gets. Bar cookies are the perfect solution. This is basically a shortcut recipe that still delivers all the great samoas flavor without some of the more tedious parts of cooking making. These bars have a buttery shortbread base that is topped with the caramel-coconut samoas topping and chocolate. The final step is to dip these in chocolate once the topping has set. Homemade Samoas BarsCookie Base: 1/2 cup sugar 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 large egg 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose flour 1/4 tsp salt First, make the crust. Preheat oven to 300. Makes 30 bar cookies.

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