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• 12.12.08
  Thursday Night Smackdown: Put a little puddin’ in your pop smackdown, sweets | (13)

  I think you all should know that I just saw a commercial for Pizza Hut's new product, the "PANnormous Pizza." Which leads me to believe that there is some kind of law of thermodynamics stating that as Apple devices grow ever smaller, franchise pizza products must grow proportionally larger.* None of that has anything to do with these warm lemon pudding cakes from Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America. Which apparently would rather have you pay $30,000 to attend their baking and pastry program than actually bake at home, because this recipe? Kind of sucked. *Exhibit B: The ...

  Tagged: baking, cake, citrus, cooking, culinary, dessert, food, lemon, pudding
  
• 05.18.08
  A Fuzzy Navel, please – baked, not stirred. baking, fruit, sweets | (34)

  When I'm good, I'm good. Long before I became fully immured in the foodblogosphere, I was addicted to the archives of Sugar High Friday over at The Domestic Goddess - we're talking over 3 years worth of sugary, buttery, sticky smooth sweet silky goodness from around the world. Have an excess of figs? Check out #35. Love ginger? Try lucky #19. Wanna get fancy-pants about it? Sugar art, #26. Feeling po-mo? "Desserts in shades of white," #31.* Dead dentists everywhere are creating elaborate underground tunnels from all the rolling ...

  Tagged: baking, cake, canon, citrus, cooking, food, fruit, powershot, sugar high friday
  
• 03.31.08
  Fish balls, fish balls; eat them up. Yum! condiments, dips, fish, grains, sauces | (34)

  Did you know: If you want to take your fish balls out to the movies, you DON'T HAVE TO PAY to get them in! What a deal! Say someone challenged you to come up with a dish involving your choice of seafood, lime and coconut. You'd probably come up with something a lot like this, I'm sure: coconut rice and yellowtail suckers with a trio of spicy lime dipping sauces. Because when people think "fish," they think "lollipop," right? Okay, I know, it sounds freaky and maybe a little bit gross. It's just that the ...

  Tagged: appetizer, canape, canon, citrus, fish, fruit, powershot, tropical
  

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