• 27Jan
    Categories: Candy Comments: 2

    The marshmallows were pretty delicious. They took about a day to really develop the right texture and flavor — a little more setting up, and a little drying out. I rolled them in a powdered sugar/cornstarch mixture too:

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    We shared them with some friends, and they commented that they were even better than store-bought marshmallows.

    I thought I’d post the recipe as well…

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  • 23Jan
    Categories: Candy Comments: 0

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    White, fluffy, and sweet — Marshmallows! I saw this book at the library, and had to try my hand at making marshmallows. First, you boil it:

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  • 27Nov

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thanksgiving is like THE food holiday, and since we didn’t drive back home, we had our own Thanksgiving dinner here. It was my first time cooking a turkey, as well as the whole dinner. Everything was really good, except my Caramel Apple pie was invisibly ruined. First, the turkey:

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  • 22Nov
    Categories: Cookware Comments: 0

    This is the Ikea Spice Mill, and it is awesome:

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    You really should buy one of these. Here’s why:

    • Its cheap. Its like $7 at Ikea.
    • Its adjustable so you can grind anything from chunks to a fine powder.
    • Its strong too. I use mine to grind coarse Kosher salt.
    • And, it grinds quickly. A couple of twists, and you’re good to go. Compare that to my fancy-looking pepper grinder, where you can grind for 20-30 seconds to get what you want.

    Here’s the Ikea product page: LINK — They even have the matching jars and you could just move the grinder head to whatever jar you want to grind.

  • 31Oct
    Categories: Vegetables Comments: 0

    Here’s our pumpkins:

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  • 27Oct

    We’ve been pretty happy with our house since moving in a few months ago. The previous owners took great care of it and seemed to do a lot of work to make it nice. One thing that was lacking was working light in the kitchen. The kitchen just has one ceiling light and that’s it. So, I started looking around at what to do about it, and decided to add some under-cabinet lighting.

    Among the many websites I looked at, this HGtv’s HowTo article is what convinced me that it would be easy and make a great improvement. I also learned about the different kinds of lighting: fluorescent is efficient but not great color — something important when working with food; LEDs are very efficient but you pay a lot for that new technology; halogens have great light but get hot; xenon has the same color as halogen but only gets 1/4 as hot. So, we went to Lowe’s and found a nice looking xenon puck light system.

    First, the “before” picture:

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