Alton agrees with Brenda. He did an episode with three different choc. chip cookie recipes that addressed this issue. I didn't remember the details, but that's what the Internet is for!
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DebetEsse - Dec 02, 2011 4:33:06 pm PST #9618 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
tommyrot - Dec 02, 2011 4:34:58 pm PST #9619 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A loaf of bread... with a bottle of vodka baked into it.
From Russia, of course.
meara - Dec 02, 2011 4:45:49 pm PST #9620 of 30001
Well, according to my chemistry-cooking book, use butter rather than shortening and cool the dough before cooking. High protein flour will also soak up the water and make it dry and crispier, and darker. Corn syrup (subsituting as little as 1 tablespoon for sugar) will also make a browner, crispier cookie. Use baking soda instead of baking powder.
sarameg - Dec 02, 2011 4:53:36 pm PST #9621 of 30001
Already using baking SODA, butter, chilled dough. This is the first attempt: [link] They're a little too cakey. I want more nilla-wafery.
meara - Dec 02, 2011 4:58:35 pm PST #9622 of 30001
Try the corn syrup--it's the secret ingredient in at least one chocolate chip cookie recipe I really like, to make it crispy.
sarameg - Dec 02, 2011 5:26:54 pm PST #9623 of 30001
Ah jeez. My cousin is getting married Easter weekend and we're using the occasion to do a family reunion. In Omaha. There's no way I can get a flight under $400 NOW. Gnrg. Thing is, it is convenient to the MN immediate family? The rest of us, nsm. Including his sister near me. Maybe should talk to her and see if they are doing a drive to an airport more direct to there than BWI.
Kat - Dec 02, 2011 5:31:24 pm PST #9624 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
What is direct to Omaha?
Who's doing an Advent Caledar this year? We just started our Playmobil calendar last night and Matilda is jazzed about it.
Noah has (two) Star Wars advent calendar(s). One is going into storage for next year. Grace has a wooden calendar with ornaments and her own tiny advent tree.
shrift - Dec 02, 2011 5:34:31 pm PST #9625 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
This weekend? I need to get a new winter jacket. I need to clean like whoa, as the kitchen floor displeases me. I need to start writing Yuletide and also start Christmas shopping. I should login to work for a while. Maybe I'll make a vat of vegetarian chili.
And somewhere in there I want to drink some fancy gin and sleep forever. I guess I'll get started on the gin.
sarameg - Dec 02, 2011 5:34:37 pm PST #9626 of 30001
Nothing?
Grandma Karin always used to send us swedish advent calendars. Spoiled us for advent chocolate, that's for sure. Man, probably haven't done one of those since high school.
Hil R. - Dec 02, 2011 5:37:40 pm PST #9627 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I saw this at the toy store yesterday. It's a box full of rocks. There's also some paint and stuff to decorate them, but seriously. It's a box of rocks. [link]
And, clicking through the links from that page, it looks like there are about 20 different books and kits to teach kids how to paint rocks. I'm fairly certain I painted some rocks as a kid, and I'm equally certain I didn't need instructions.