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Polenta in the rice cooker

The one thing I hadn´t tried in that Gourmet article about rice cookers I go on and on about was the polenta. It seemed too good to be true, but I needen´t have been so mistrusting. It works a treat. You put the cornmeal and the water and a bit of salt and in a short while there...

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lobstersquad — 5 days ago

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15 minute emergency brownies

I don´t want to start with a tiresome cliché about how brownies are the little black dress of chocolate puddings, so I won´t. I will say, though, that they´re an endlessly useful recipe, because everyone seems to love brownies, and they go with everything, and they ...

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lobstersquad — October 27

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Bread, II.

I´m on a bread kick. It happens to me every year, but I would lie if I said it led to my making all the bread I eat. Usually after a few weeks my interest peters out.But maybe this time it won´t. My last two loaves were so stellar, they may just have hooked me.I made two, by the old h...

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lobstersquad — October 18

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Master mojito recipe from "Taste of Cuba"

Ah, Cuba... still as shabby and as gorgeous as ever. It was great to be back, even though the tropical summre heat knocked me flat.Being deeply in love with Mad Men I was in a swoon over all the beautiful modernist architecture. We also went to Trinidad, a beautiful town that has managed to retai...

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lobstersquad — October 11

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Off to Cuba

There´s an exhibition of drawings from the book "A taste of Cuba" at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana. If you care to browse a bit of the book, here´s a link. I´ll be back in a week, and report faithfully. ...

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lobstersquad — September 28

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The bread post

So, here´s what I think is the problem with bread: If you want to buy bread, you are lost between either industrial, cheap, pre-frozen or plastic stuff on the one hand, and artisanal, wonderful, insanely expensive things on the other. If you want to make bread you find things that look ea...

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lobstersquad — September 24