If you would like to see some very good, quick videos demonstrating how to make the perfect latte and how to do that exciting and beautiful latte art visit this link to see professional barista Jessica Kelly making lattes look just lovely.  Just watching the videos makes me want a latte now! The videos are [...]

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It’s a well known fact that you really can’t put too much garlic into whatever you’re cooking. It’s also a fact that Garlic has a long history of being a medicinal herb, in addition to its use against vampires and such. Now it looks like modern science has some proof (from the Mediterranean Diet:) Great [...]

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There’s nothing like a good [tag-tec]Barbecue[/tag-tec].  The Orcs in Orgrimmar understand this, which is why they have huge bonfires all over the city. For those of us in the real world our BBQing is a little less… energetic. Most of us have the basic Webber type grill, some are a little fancier and have the [...]

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I thought this was rather funny. The Angry Man’s Guide to Patriotic Cooking covers cooking in a manly fashion. Out are the stir-fries and in are 2lb hammers. Hmmm, I wonder what a Dwarf or Orc would use? A clip: Today I’ve decided to answer some cooking questions from our readers. In this short Q&A [...]

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Some of my fondest memories of my grandmother involve baking cookies on holidays. We would cut out sugar cookies with seasonally appropriate cookie cutters and have a great time decorating the baked cookies with colored icing, sprinkles, etc. We would then make up plates of cookies and distribute them throughout the neighborhood. If you would [...]

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Mmmm! Rich, chocolate or mocha, fudgey hot sauce on ice cream – the perfect compliment to a chilled dish of creamy vanilla smoothness! Here are a couple of delicious sauces that are easy to make and that will be the perfect complement to that bowl of vanilla (or other flavor) ice cream, or to pour [...]

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One of the most time-consuming and least enjoyable parts of baking is the clean up. Well, here are some tips to make that unavoidable task faster and easier. Cleaner cookie baking: Whether your cookie, biscuit, bread, or other recipe calls for a greased or ungreased baking pan one thing you can do to ensure that [...]

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The Tauren Chef on the Art of Measuring Flour: Did you know that there are two ways to measure flour and that the method you use will change the amount of flour you measure out? When you measure flour, stir the flour first, then spoon it into the measuring cup with a spoon and level [...]

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I have been somewhat frustrated with the US-Metric conversion charts that I have found online. Some are so detailed that they are confusing (just TMI,) while others are so vague that it’s difficult to understand what they are referencing. From what I have seen around the web there may be differences between the measurements in [...]

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