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Just not with this guy:

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Gingerbread Kama Sutra and other recipes you can try at home. I admire their skills but feel sure that this crowd could come up with even more creative options. Perhaps we should have a CG Erotic Bakeoff?

It’s a lot more complicated than you think.  Geometry is involved just to get in the door.  Stick with this one for a bit…

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Katy has won concert tickets through KBCO twice.  The first time it was to Big Head Todd the weekend we were in PDX, so we couldn’t use them.  Yesterday she won tixz to… James Blunt.  James fucking Blunt.

They also sent her some tax forms because she has to declare all this as income

On Sunday I was trapped in the house all day while the snow and ice fell. I was craving warm, chewy chocolate chip goodness, so I decided to do some baking. The cookie recipe I grew up with produces cookies of the light and puffy variety, whereas I wanted thick and chewy and gooey with chocolate chunks. So online I went to search out the best recipe. I found Alton Brown’s Chewy Recipe, and trusting that this dude knows what he’s talking about in the kitchen, I mixed up the dough. (more…)

Or, rather, that’s what I thought that this article was going to suggest.  Actually, it ended up being more interesting than I thought.

Researchers studied a group of Masai who live on basically a diet of red meat and milk, a diet that’s 60% fat, half of which is saturated.  They have really low cholesterol.

They followed Masai who moved to more urban environments, and found that their cholesterol skyrocketed.

It turns out, the whole “Saturated Fat leads to heart attacks,” is a theory that was put forth in the 60’s because scientists noted that people with higher fat intakes have more heart attacks.  They would have had to delete the Masai data point if they had known about it.

“In the nutrition field, it’s very difficult to get something published that goes against  established dogma,” says Mozaffarian. “The dogma says that saturated fat is harmful, but that is not based, to me, on unequivocal evidence.” Mozaffarian says he believes it’s critical that scientists remain open minded. “Our finding was surprising to us. And when there’s a discovery that goes against what’s established, it shouldn’t be suppressed but rather disseminated and explored as much as possible.”

At any rate, the article made me happy in that it doesn’t do the, “if you want to avoid heart attacks, do this,” but it’s rather an analysis of research studies. 

Make me want to die inside.

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(Via Cynical-C)

Guess the definition of words at freerice.com, and feed the hungry. Snopes says it’s authentic.

Someone on a forum linked to the biscuits and gravy recipe, and I just got sucked in from there.

http://thepioneerwomancooks.com/

The recipes are great, the pictures are good, and the humor is a nice touch. The recipe for butternut squash puree was hysterical (it’s on the main page, halfway down). I think the cinnamon rolls are going to happen soon.