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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I was amazed and amused recently to see a news article about the “World’s Most Expensive Dessert.” This chocolate sundae set a Guiness record, selling at $25,000. It’s called the “Frrozen Haute Chocolate,” and, no, that’s not a typo; it is frrozen with two Rs. It was developed by Stephen Bruce, owner of Serendipity 3 [...]

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I spent New Year’s Eve with my family and a hundred or so of our closest friends in Ironforge and Stormwind, enjoying the fireworks, saluting one another with toasting goblets, and drinking from beer mugs until my screen went fuzzy and monster levels were inaccurate. My (family) team visited the Christmas tree for one last [...]

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Once again it’s time for the annual Blizzard Holiday Dessert Contest! Contestants submit photos of their own Warcraft, Starcraft, or Diablo-themed desserts to see which cake, candy, cookie, or gingerbread house will win. There will be five winners for the best cakes, five winners for the best candies or cookies, and five winners for the [...]

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We had Goblin Deviled Clams as an appetizer before our dinner of Roasted Quail. I used garlic seasoned bread crumbs instead of just plain seasoned bread crumbs, and it was wonderfully garlicky! Of course, I also sautéed a couple of cloves of garlic with the onions, too, as the recipe calls for. No point in [...]

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OK, so I was trying to decide between Roast Raptor and Winter Veil Roast, but I went with a third option: Roasted Quail (in my cookbook that is really roast Cornish game hens) in a cherry-balsamic vinegar baste- delicious! I made one Cornish game hen for each person and served them with wild rice and [...]

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I’m going to be making Murloc Eye pie for Winter Veil. It’s nice that Winter Veil lasts for more than one day. This pie will have a rough country pie crust appropriate to a Horde dish. I’ll post a photo for it when I am done and include it in the next WoW cookbook. I [...]

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My alter ego is the Tauren Chef. I wield a massive solid oak rolling pin and stomp around my kitchen flinging flour and butter everywhere (for which my dogs and cats are eternally grateful.) I revel in grilling, roasting, and broiling hefty cuts of beef and tender, fresh fillets of salmon and halibut. The scent [...]

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