I don’t understand the toilet paper thing at all. I live in Korea, which has so far been hit much harder than the US* and yet, there is no lack of toilet paper. Everyone can still wipe their bums without worrying where their next bit of double-ply is coming from. Masks are basically being rationed now, but that’s…

I finally got a stand mixer, and the first thing I did with it was make brioche. And then I ate all my brioche, and made more.
Now what I really need are other things that my stand mixer has made possible that really wasn’t before.  Friends, what should I be baking or making now that I have the intense power of…

I’ve made gnocchi a few times at home now, and they’ve never come out as light and fluffy as really good restaurant ones.  Right now they’re on the wrong side of my effort vs. result equation, but hey, maybe that new series could help!

Yeah, I understand you think it’s an important part of America’s cuisine.  I’m quibbling with the idea that all countries have some kind of cream of mushroom soup.

 . . . except for all countries where the vast majority of the population is lactose intolerant, perhaps?  AKA most of the world?

Just about every part of that seems unnecessary and not anywhere near as entertaining as they probably thought when they filmed it.

Friend, I know what soda bread is. I also know what I ate every morning for weeks, and it was a brown YEASTED loaf. Every single person who named it for me called it “brown bread” and was also not the same loaf as what they were calling “soda bread.”  You can pretty easily find recipes for it, including from Irish…

I couldn’t bring myself to watch it after being annoyed by parts of the original Ugly Delicious ~ what did he do?

It may be *a* brown bread recipe, but having been to Ireland, soda bread isn’t the bread you’ll encounter most that is called “brown bread” - I got served a hell of a lot of brown bread, and almost all of it was a denser, darker loaf bread but NOT a soda bread.

Ugh, you are correct - brain fart moment.  

On a pedantic note, clafoutis made with anything other than cherries (and sour morello cherries, if you’re a real stickler) isn’t clafoutis, but flaugnarde. The genre of dessert in general is something like the delicious bastard offspring of a flan and a cake, a three-way of fruity sin between a dutch baby, a Yorkshire…

It shouldn’t be like that ~ they’re certainly an interesting texture that’s uncommon in baked goods, but it shouldn’t be like a disappointing pancake. They’re usually not particularly sweet, and it should be custard-y, not gummy.  
I suggest Julia Child’s recipe myself.

Fruit-to-filling ratio is pretty different.  While a good clafoutis does have a lot of fruit in it, it’s not sitting on a solid bed of cooked fruit like a cobbler usually is.  And the batter really does sit at a very delicate point between cake and custard, which is fun.

The great part about clafoutis is that they’re not usually very sweet. They’ve got an interesting texture, somewhere between cake-like (around the edges) and custard-esque (in the middle).  The best comparison I have is to a very thick Yorkshire pudding or unpuffed Dutch baby.

Yeah, they look rather over-baked and cake-like to me . . . 

Your croissants sound great, but clafoutis don’t have a texture at all like a pancake, unless you’re cooking your pancakes in a very strange way.

I would argue that “right above the comments” at the end of the article isn’t a “prominent” place ~ I think more people would notice and also be less upset about the repetition if the article perhaps started by saying that yet another person was beer dieting for Lent?

Hot canned coffee has long been a thing in Asia. Every single convenience store has a hot shelf full of canned beverages, from coffee to tea to juice and veggie milks. It’s fine, it is not strange. You will not burn yourself on the aluminum can or glass bottle.
The coffee inside is usually pretty bad, but hey, it’s…

I have a reusable silicon bag that seals very tightly in my bag most of the time, for exactly this purpose.

Every part of that is intensely stupid.  All I remembered was a panic over people dying from energy drinks.