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A fun mental challenge might be to try to “fix” these horrendous recipes with substitutions of ingredients or techniques. Some of the past entries have lent themselves to this exercise, but for this one, I don’t […]

I’ve made the poached version and the baked version. Liked both. Especially like making it myself because you can control the salt levels and other flavors.

Poached: Totally agree, you have to form the pieces […]

There’s this Indian restaurant in Sunnyvale (Passage to India Bakery) that does a lunch buffet that includes your standard marvelous traditional Indian snack and lunch fare, plus sweet cakes and tea sandwiches! […]

I’ll definitely check out CodeAcademy!

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Roquefort v. Havarti: Hard to pick one favorite from these honorable contenders. But I gotta go with roquefort, based on its range of acceptability from high-end to low-end. I happen to live in a cheesemongering […]

I almost feel the opposite way when reading Charles Dickens – in the context of knowing he released his stories one chapter at a time in newspapers, and that people would typically gather around the someone […]

This may be sharing too much, but I didn’t have any kind of orgasm until I was about 21. It was frustrating as hell for many, many years.  I’d tried masturbating in all imaginable ways, I’d read books (“Our Bodies […]