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Cupcake meetup 3-5 today at Cupcake, Minneapolis

I tried to blog from the plane, got a post almost dine but then couldn’t seem to get it posted. Just a reminder that there’s a Cupcakes Take the Cake meetup today from 3-5 at Cupcake, 3338 University Avenue Southeast, Minneapolis. I dream about their s’mores cupcake. www.cup-cake.com I’m sad I won’t be around for the opening of Cake Eater Bakery but hear that a very cool artist is doing art for them and look forward to holding a meetup there this summer. See www.cakeeaterbakery.con for the latest news.

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The Stanford University Healthy Heart Cookbook and Life Plan

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“(This book) will serve as reassurance to anyone who thought heart disease carried with it a sentance of culinary deprivation. — Eating Well magazine”The authors of this guide. . . have made it easy by formulating a self-help program to maintain ideal cholesterol levels. . . ” — LA Times”You can’t have a doctor, dietitian, and master chef move into your home, keep this handy reference on hand!” — Low Fat No Fat Cooking magazine

This is a revolutionary cookbook containing more than just delicious, heart-healthy recipes low in saturated fat and cholesterol. It also includes the Stanford University Medical Center’s 25-gram plan as a lifelong guide to good, healthy eating. The recently released guid…
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Watch out Heston!

If life throws you lemons make lemonade they say but it seems that most folk are happier to make ice cream. The “Gelato University” in Bologna dedicated to ice cream has seen a 90 per cent rise in enrolments as high-flying executives laid off in the recession seek to forge new careers producing the country’s beloved gelato. More than 6,000 people attended the £600-a-week courses offered by the Gelato University in Bologna in 2008 but enrolments nearly doubled last year. Students come from all over the world, with budding gelato maestros attending from Australia, China, Sudan, Lebanon and Britain. They have one dream in common: to learn how to make the world’s best ice cream in the institute’s high-tech laboratories and then use their new-found expertise to open gelaterie back home, from Beirut to Brighton. As well as learning how to concoct familiar flavours such as chocolate and vanilla, students experiment with more outlandish tastes, including gelato made from red wine, olive oil, Parmesan cheese and basil. “In China they have experimented with …

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How to Lose Weight and Keep it Off: 10 Rules to Live By

I’ve been browsing a lot of wedding message boards lately. It’s a fun pastime. You take polls. You read arguments that could only happen in America. You learn what preoccupies engaged folks. Which? Besides the usual etiquette questions and endless recaps of Bridezilla , is losing weight. To a certain degree, this is to be expected. It’s certainly a concern of mine. (Those photos will last for-freaking-ever.) But there are a disturbing number of fad diets floating around those boards: cheap pills, single-food fasts, and bizarre old wives’ tales. Needless to day, they’re expensive and frequently harmful, and the results are usually only temporary. Of course, when it comes to successfully losing weight (and more importantly, keeping it off), nothing is written in stone. What works for one person may not work for her twin sister. I certainly don’t know all the answers. But I kinda know some of them. These ten rules have been echoed time and again by medical professionals, nutrition experts, and the media in general. They’re fairly essential to any weight control. Many have worked for me over the years. Hopefully, they’ll help you along, too. If you have more rules to add, I’d love to read ‘em. …

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Critic-Turned-Cook Gives Top Marks To Fall Quarter Fare

Since September, I’ve been prepping in Darlene’s cozy kitchen at the University of Washington, playing a minor role in getting meals out for the 70 perpetually hungry guys at Alpha Sigma Phi . Matt Hansen serving pot roast with au gratin potatoes. [ Photograph: Leslie Kelly ] Finals are over. Fall quarter’s finished. And frat house cook Darlene Barnes has earned straight A’s for her from-scratch fare made with sustainable, mostly organic ingredients. Each week, Darlene posts menus on her blog and on the fridge in the dining hall. I don’t think she repeated a dinner the entire quarter. The Alpha Sigs experienced a season of first tastes. Grits, collards, braised Lacinato kale, beautiful oven-braised short ribs, brie baked in puff pastry and cheese-stuffed figs were just a few of the incredible dishes introduced in the dining hall. While the feedback was mostly positive, the few who had beefs were vocal about it. One kid wanted the return of frozen, processed chicken cordon bleu—basically something like a tarted-up version of a Chicken McNugget. Instead, Darlene made Tyler Florence’s Chicken Cordon Bleu (the secret’s in buttering the panko breadcrumbs) and that flipping bird got rave reviews. It was just one of a long…

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8 cupcake periodic tables of the elements

This period table of elements made with cupcakes has been all the rage of the blogosphere the past few days. It’s by Katherine at Foodie Friday (via Neatorama and she writes: I helped my little sister bake these periodic table cupcakes for her birthday party tomorrow. A periodic table made entirely out of cupcakes. She’s a chemistry nerd, so everything had to be exactly correct. Astute chem majors will notice the color-coded icing for solids, liquids, and gases, as well as the empty cupcake liner for as-yet-undiscovered element ununseptium. (Though when it came time for me to take a picture with the completed cupcakes, she mysteriously could not find her ultra-dorky safety goggles that I wanted to wear for it.) By the time the flour from the day’s baking had settled, we had emptied 2 bags of powdered sugar, 1 bag of brown sugar, 1 bag of white sugar, 16 eggs, and and 17 sticks of butter. And for those who just can’t get enough chemistry cupcakes, here are some more…(yes, some were previously blogged, and there are more on the way, just waiting for permission to post). from the Chemical Heritage Foundation – read more about them here by our …

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Hot Dog of the Week: Thanksgiving Dog

“Thanksgiving dinner on a hot dog bun.” [ Original artwork: Hawk Krall ] Past Weeks’ Dogs 24th & Passyunk Truck Texas Tommy Philly Dirty Water Dog Chicago Dog I’ve been racking my brain, trying to come up with a Thanksgiving-related Hot Dog of the Week, hoping that someone somewhere had concocted a seasonal haute dog. Maybe venison sausage with pumpkin aioli or Kobe beef corn dogs with cranberry dipping sauce? Then a vision of a dog piled high with classic Thanksgiving sides materialized in my mind. “Wow, that would be amazing if somebody did that, ha,” I thought to myself. Turns out Dirty Frank’s Hot Dog Palace in Columbus, Ohio, did. I wrote about Dirty Frank’s earlier this year soon after they opened. Owner Liz Lessner has four restaurants in the Columbus area, all proudly serving Ohio comfort food (and all open for Thanksgiving). For Dirty Frank’s first Turkey Day, they whipped up a wild Thanksgiving Dog. I was expecting maybe turkey chili and cranberry relish, but this is the real deal: a turkey frank piled high with stuffing and a big scoop of fluffy mashed potatoes, dripping with gravy and cranberry sauce on the side. Thanksgiving dinner on a hot dog bun. Dirty Franks’…

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Chicago Smartypants Answers and Winners

1. On what date did the Great Chicago Fire begin? ANSWER: October 8, 1871

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Taste Test: Finding the Best Apples for Baking

[ Photographs: Blake Royer ] It’s astounding these days the number of apples you can find at a market. No longer does the Red Delicious—which I remember as the quintessential lunchroom apple—hold the only place in the supermarket aisle. Pippin, Jonagold, Golden Noble, Winesap, Pink Lady, Schmidtberger Reinette—every name makes my mouth water with anticipation. It used to be you bought a bag of Granny Smith apples when you wanted to bake, and you added enough sugar to counteract their tartness. But now which apples are the best for baking pie? Certainly, not all of them are good for that purpose. There are many great eating apples, whether tart, sweet, mild, or fragrant. But would the same apples I love to eat as I’m walking home from the market perform well under a pastry shell? Check out the results of my taste test after the jump. Taste Test Method For an apple to succeed, it needs to hold its shape after cooking— just enough to remain un-mushy, but still melt in the mouth. It also must have a balance of tart and sweet, a complex yet bright taste, and most importantly, maintain a good “appley” flavor. I tested a variety of cultivars available at my local Whole Foods, …

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Pico de Gallo BSU Style

Ah yes! The infamous weekend arrives. The traditional in-state rivalry between the Boise State Broncos and the University of Idaho Vandals. Too bad the ESPN major stations don’t want to carry it and most of the 60000 fans (combined total of BSU and U of I fans) here in Idaho will be shut out of watching the game. So we made the Pico de Gallo BSU Style to devour during the game, as the Broncos will do to the Vandals. (Yes, we were lucky enough to know someone who has ESPNU) Do you see the Blue and Orange in the Pico de Gallo? There’s a lot of it all through the dish. Do you see any Black and Gold in there? Probably not. There’s nothing left to symbolize the Vandals after they visit Boise. Our Grandson Chris can’t even stay at home to watch the game. He says there is too much “interference” to stay and watch the game with his Mother, Grand Mother, Grand Father and Mac. The blue and the orange represents the Broncos and the red represents what&#…

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