The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
Lehman Crumbles pack a lemony filling in a cookie crust with a dusting of toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Bad business - good cookie.
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Here’s how to bring the Brussels sprout back from childhood ban lists: Don’t boil them. Pan-braise the little cabbages in a touch of Dijon cream, and shazam!
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It takes a few minutes to caramelize the sugar with the cinnamon stick, but if this isn’t the best pot of hot chocolate you’ve ever had, I want your recipe.
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Humanely raised heirloom pork from Native Offerings Farm, scored and slathered with crusty mustard caramel, anchors a memorable winter dinner.
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