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More cooking experiments

Thursday, September 8th, 2005

I’ve tried a few new things lately — including a lemon mousse/custard dessert — but I’ve found myself using one particular method quite frequently because a) it’s easy and b) the results have been very good. I’m talking about pouch cooking, which I learned by watching Good Eats episode The Pouch Principle.
The best thing about [...]

Cooking Experiment #123456789

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

I found a recipe on the internet the other day for something this person was calling Crockpot Dal. [Ed. Surely Crackpot Dal by the time I'm finished with it...] I’ve been meaning to try my hand at some Indian cooking for awhile, and this looked suitably easy enough, so I decided to give it a [...]

Cooking Experiments #10 and #11

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

After about a year of not really trying anything new with cooking, I finally tried a couple new things this weekend. This is due mostly to my buying three new cooking books from the bargain section of Barnes & Nobles recently: one vegetarian, one asian, and one low-fat cooking.
Yesterday the girl and I went on [...]