• News bites

    • 11.17.08

      The best of the second-best bacon

      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)


    • 11.10.08

      Carol Cooks Keller

      “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)


    • 11.07.08

      Cakes we can believe in

      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.


CRASH COURSES: Mortgage Meltaways, the cookie that’s sweeter than a broker’s lies

Try Mortgage Meltaways, delicate lime wafers that are so impossibly delicious you’ll risk anything to try them!

CRASH COURSES: When life gives you lemons, and by “gives you lemons” we mean “fires you,” Lehman Crumbles will ease the ache

Lehman Crumbles pack a lemony filling in a cookie crust with a dusting of toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Bad business - good cookie.

Recipe: Chipotle Velveeta mac and cheese with bacon - Be still my heart

Velveeta chipotle mac and cheese, fortified with sharp cheddar and blue cheeses and topped with crunchy bacon, will set a new standard for mac and cheese.

Recipe: Strawberry shortcake - Celebrate the season

Strawberry shortcake is best with local berries that can ooze tasty berry juice into the welcoming embrace of homemade shortbread like the one presented here.

Recipe: Focaccia - Cooks Illustrated recipe works every time

Of all the focaccia recipes we’ve tried, the Cooks Illustrated version, with grated cooked potato in the dough, has turned out best.