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the Great Recipe Experiment: #8-Romano Zucchini Sticks

It’s been a busy spring. So busy that I’ve fallen behind in my Recipe Experiments. But there’s one thing I never fall behind on: Glee. Yes, it’s true. I’m a Gleek. A huge one, too. But I’m not alone. There’s many of us. We are legion. We are loyal. And we love to throw Glee [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #7-Red Pepper Cannellini Dip

Imagine a scenario, if you will, in which you need to feed a few people. Like, oh, I don’t know, 5000 people or so. On a beach. Near Bethsaida. And like, these people are really hungry, right, because it’s late and this is way back a couple thousand years before the invention of segways and [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #6-Chocolate Thumbprints

You know what you shouldn’t do when baking something, especially for the first time? Read the line in the recipe that says to place the cookie dough on “buttered or cooking parchment- lined 12- by 15-inch baking sheets” and think, “Well, I hate to butter a pan, I’ll use baking spray instead.” This is really [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #5-Asopao de Pollo

This post is brought to you by the letters “Y,” “U,” “M,” “M,” and “Y.” And the number 3. Let’s use those in a sentence. “This meal is 3 kinds of yummy.“ Good! This may actually be my favorite of the experiments so far. Granted, there have only been 5–so far—but this is still one [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #4-peanut butter cups

I don’t know what to tell you about this particular experiment except for two things: I don’t know why I didn’t think of doing this a long time ago Because of this experiment, I found and bought and now have 100 reeeeeeally tiny cupcake wrappers. Like, “Honey I Shrunk the Cupcake Liners.” And, like all [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #3-Peppermint Patties

I always liked Peppermint Patty, maybe because she was a tomboy and I was a tomboy. However, I never liked peppermint patties, because they were made of mint and I did not like the “curiously strong” flavor of mint. This would later be amended to allow for the presence of mint in mojitos which is, [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #2-Cranberry Bars

Or alternatively titled, “Get Shortbread.” The second recipe I decided to try for my Great Recipe Experiment was for the Joy of Baking’s cranberry shortbread bars. Carrie and Sophia both said they’d be willing to sample these for me. I actually would have made them early last week but for the life of me, I [...]

the Great Recipe Experiment: #1-Gianduja Bars

677. Six hundred and seventy seven. A year in the 7th century? Yes, it was. The number of a Boy Scout troop in Washington? Probably. The number of hours that equal 40,620 minutes? According to my desktop converter widget, yes. It is also the number of recipes in my Evernote recipe notebook. Or at least, [...]