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Butter cookies The first cookies I baked this year were some regular butter cookies. Unfortunately, I only found unicorn sprinkles in my local supermarket so this is the unicorn butter cookies edi...
Cinnamon roll cookies This year, I tried something out that I wanted to do for a long time: making cookies that are closely related to cinnamon rolls. Contrary to regular cinnamon rolls which are ...
I mostly use my multipot as a pressure cooker, but today I used its slow-cooker function to make soup. The manual says that when using it as a slow cooker, leave the pressure vent open (not closed...
Can you please ID this dish? It's from Shang Palace in H.K.. I see sesame seeds and carrot slices. But I can't figure out the other ingredients. Thanks.
I chanced upon the answer while viewing other pictures. This is 柚子涼辦蟲草花沖繩海參. Another pic
I'm guessing these are snips of red, orange, green peppers? But then what's the white liquid? Openrice page for Shang Palace in H.K..
In my personal experience, without resorting to something like injecting the marinade or making cuts for it to get in, it really only affects the outside of the meat for a short distance, even when...
While beans are often canned with calcium chloride to keep cell walls strongs and salt for flavor, all of the starch that leaches into the water is inherent in the beans. It just needs to be let ou...
Vegan cheeses, as already mentioned, vary considerably in melting characteristics. All the various ones I have experience with do not melt at similar temperatures to cow cheese, or to the same ext...
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...
"Macaroni" in common usage in the US specifically refers to "elbow macaroni", the kind of dried pasta you are talking about. The US has a standard of identity: (b) Macaroni is the macaroni product...
One of my anodized nonstick pans[1] has developed a fractal-edged region of a slightly different color than the rest. I suspected that I had accidentally been seasoning my pan[2] and a seasoning la...
Without a dehydrator, one typically returns to procedures for drying things out that predate the common availability of specialty tools. Assuming you have an oven and a baking sheet (rimmed might ...
Neither of these is going to help with cheeks, but for anyone just with eye sensitivities: A friend introduced me to the concept of "onion glasses," which are apparently transparent lenses with pa...
This question appears to be trying to create controversy. If you want to make a specific style of food, you may need specialized equipment. Certainly, specialized equipment makes certain things ea...
I am making cheese and as a byproduct I have a decent amount of almond pulp. About 2 kilograms. I soaked and skinned the almonds, blended them and strained them with a nut milk bag. The recipe I'm...
My parents eat this FROZEN lobster meat from Maine weekly. Each plastic bag of frozen lobster lasts 3 servings for them. But they're too lazy to put 1/3 of the frozen lobster meat into, then fre...
I have mixed powdered milk and hot chocolate in a Nalgene before to celebrate climbing mountains/rock climbs but it has been a while and I don't remember how much of each it takes (I think it was a...
The good news: PLA itself is non-toxic, and is often used in molded applications for food-safe tools. Everything else is pretty much bad news. Your intuition is correct: The print resolution is go...
What's the point of Step 2 below? It feels like too much work! Why "Put the butter onto a sheet of parchment paper and roll into a small cylinder"? Why the "parchment paper and roll into a small c...
I don't understand how to proceed from Step 2 to 3. In Step 2, the bones are under the fish flesh. Then in step 3, how do I "Take hold of the bones at the head end"? In Step 3, how will t...
This is the first time that I've heard that stuffing fish with herbs and lemon is "pointless, as almost no flavour will be imparted from these trappings." I'm nonplussed! Many cookbooks recommend t...
Except for the special case of a swim bladder, bloating is caused by gasses produced by the decomposition process. In other words, it indicates that lots of bacteria and/or fungi are present, and ...
Periwinkles are much smaller and harder to inspect than the other examples you give, so it's difficult to identify if one is bad. Generally you would be able to tell right away if some of your scal...
4 Remove the lid and stir up the cornstarch mixture, add it to the pant and continue stirring until thickened. Transfer the clams to a serving dish and garnish with cilantro. Serve immediately....
