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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Cat Food: 7 — Burrito: 11

You can be all rational and tell me why this was an unfair comparison, and you’d probably be right. Bit still, it’s disturbing that it was that close. (If you can’t see the video, click through to view it on the blog.) You need some recipe cards Those look pretty nice, don’t they? Well they [...]

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How To Make Yellow Cake

Today is the second recipe out of the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. It’s the yellow cake to go with the chocolate frosting. It’s not a lemon cake, it’s yellow. The flavor is actually vanilla and almond, and very subtle. It’s very nearly a blank canvas to support the frosting, so mild [...]

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How To Clean Strawberries

Photo by: Velo Steve Now that we’re approaching strawberry season, I thought it would be helpful to completely gross you out. Oops, sorry, that’s me who was completely grossed out. So now I’m showing it to you. I can’t help it, I’m a sharing person. Click here … but not before lunch. If that doesn’t [...]

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Chocolate Frosting Recipe #1

My wife found me a new stack of old recipe books a few weeks ago. She’s been going through them looking for ideas, and the first one she came up with is out of the Ohio State Grange Cook Book, Eleventh Edition, 1949. I like all the oddball recipes she’s finding. But what really tickles [...]

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Review: Food, Inc.

Documentary filmmakers have lots of options in how to approach a subject. You can turn yourself into an example of the subject and capture your own reaction, like Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me. You can interview lots of different people and show the story in their words, like Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis in [...]

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