I don’t normally even like to talk about “Dieting” in general and so-called dieting drugs in particular because I don’t think they’re a good idea. As for the word “Diet”, your “diet” is what you eat, EVERYBODY is one one kind of “diet” or another. The problem is that most are on some pretty poor [...]
I’m not normally into alcoholic drinks but there’s a little story behind this one. The other day my wife and I were watching the Scripps national spelling bee and one of the words was “Advacaat”. What caught my attention was the definition given for the word looked very much like a recipe for something served [...]
Back when I was a kid there was a dish that Mom made once in a while that we knew only as “Porcupine Balls”, mostly because that’s what Dad always called them. Since then I’ve figured out that they were most likely a form of sweedish meatballs. This is another recipe that could use ground [...]
This is an easy to make fudge brownie recipe that I found in a collection of diabetic recipes. I think that the main reason it was in that collection was because it doesn’t use refined sugars. Honestly though, diabetic or not, if you let yourself get too friendly with these brownies they’ll exact a price [...]
Albumen isn’t exactly a commonly used term that I’ve noticed, but it’s shown up once in a while in recipes written by cooks that I think are trying to make their recipes sound more exotic than they really are. Albumen is the white of an egg. Al dente is one of those terms that you [...]
