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Chocolate-Jam Pizzelles

December 17, 2013

I do not understand cookies that don't contain chocolate.

It's not that I'm such a huge chocolate person - I'm not - it's that chocolate just seems like a necessary component of a cookie. Sugar cookies, for example? Do not get. (Although the ones I made for last weekend's cookie party - the recipe is coming up later this week - were as excellent as a non-chocolate-containing cookie can be.)

So when I visited my in-laws in Ohio over Thanksgiving and my mother-in-law raved about these flattish, extremely boring-looking waffle cookies called "pizzelles", I wasn't all that excited. And then I tried one just because it was sitting right there next to me, and:

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Kendrick Took The Triple Atomic Challenge

December 6, 2013

OK, so at Quaker Steak & Lube - the wings chain that we stop into every time we drive to Ohio - there's a huge menu of hot wings arranged according to something called "Scoville Units" (hotness. basically). The ones I would consider eating hover around ninety units, because I am a weenie and I don't understand why a person would want to eat things that incur pain.

Triple Atomic wings - the hottest ones on the menu - contain something called "ghost peppers" and have FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND units.

FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND. That is a lot of thousands.

And if you want to eat them, you first must sign a waiver. And if you eat six, you get a t-shirt. Obviously I was not interested in doing this, but for whatever reason Kendrick (and the Man Vs. Food guy, apparently) was.

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Kitchen Essentials

December 6, 2013

Q. What ingredients/cooking tools would you recommend for a beginner, mid-level and advanced-level cook?

- Jeannine

A. I'm going to answer this question from the perspective of someone who's firmly in that middle category: a decent-ish cook who's interested in moving slightly beyond the basics and experimenting a little. My feeling about cooking - beginner or no - is that it should be fun, not fussy...so I honestly don't think you just don't really need a ton in order to create delicious meals, regardless of how proficient you are in the kitchen.

That said, it's definitely nice to have a few little toys to play with.

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Two Things

December 4, 2013

1) After a solid five years of coveting, I am finally the owner of a KitchenAid stand mixer (pistachio seemed like the obvious pick), and it is everything that I dreamed.

2) For its inaugural outing last night, I made the New York Times' Consummate Chocolate Chip Cookies (again), for the sole reason that I wanted to eat the raw dough.

Entertaining

Tea Party (And The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever)

November 27, 2013

Drinking coffee, for me, is about caffeine --> body (quickly, please), but tea? It's all about the presentation. PG Tips and chocolate-chip cookies (recipe below) just taste better when beautiful teacups and vintage lace tablecloths are involved.

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