Ina’s Buns

I haven’t gotten around to trying Ina’s Easy Sticky Buns.  But online, I’ve come across folks who have.  And the results are a mixed bag.

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Foolin’

Fool me once…shame on you.  Fool me twice…won’t get fooled again.  Or some such nonsense.
But being fooled isn’t always the same as being foolish.  Case in point, pancakes.  I’ve never been a big pancake fan, unless they were being cooked up by my grandmother, but sometimes I just get a taste for them.  Here on [...]

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Notes on a Recipe – AB’s Overnight Oatmeal

My introduction to the Food Network came courtesy of Alton Brown and Good Eats.  In thirty minutes, he not only presents multiple recipes, but he explains the “why” of it all.  I guess I’m not the only person who wants to understand the how and why of the kitchen.  Did I mention he makes it [...]

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Weekend With Ina

One interesting thing about having the latest Barefoot Contessa cookbook, the one that the current season of the Food Network show is based on, is that I get to see Ina prepare the recipes.  And to be honest, there were some recipes in the book that didn’t get me too excited, but when I saw [...]

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Pecking Order

The ants are back.  Instead of climbing the walls of the building, they are swarming our trashcan.  There must be something irresistible down there to cause this urban safari.  Emerging from a crack in the sidewalk is a steady line of workers on their way to the target.  Mixed into the line are the ants [...]

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Mission Impossible

The beauty of South Beach Phase 2 is that you get to reintroduce foods that were to be avoided during Phase 1.  Sounds easy enough, right?  The catch is that you aren’t getting an even swap.  That cereal we munched on in the days before South Beach?  That’s gone.  Instead of Raisin Bran, you get [...]

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