White chocolate apricot almond bars2 cups plus 2 tablespoons flour ( Read more... )

Sweet Onion Jam6 slices good bacon ( Read more... )

Riddle me this: why are Dear Margo and Dear Prudence answering the exact same letter?

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Just parental pride at its finest. Damn, she's so cute.

The Cake1 and 1/4 c. flour ( Read more... )

Recipe time!

1/2 cup olive oil
1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1 Tbsp. honey
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1 Tbsp. minced caramelized onion

Dead easy: throw everything together and whisk. Yummy stuff.

Genuinely serious question: how many calories are in a bag of microwave popcorn? A box of microwave popcorn gives two different calorie counts: one for the unpopped kernels and one for the popped corn, with calories per serving listed for each. According to the box, there are 160 calories in 2 tablespoons of unpopped kernels (which yields ( Read more... )

No, college fencers do NOT read a lot of Ayn Rand.

I've been meaning to write this post for several days now, and since it's the long weekend, I thought I'd finally finish it.

Derek Walcott, a winner of the Nobel Prize for literature and widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living poets, failed to be elected as the Oxford professor of poetry* last week. The honor went instead to Ruth ( Read more... )

I think I can safely say that I will never, ever, ever go see Observe and Report. (Trailer and commentary here.)

I am actually nauseated from watching the trailer. The rape scene described in the review is even depicted in the trailer, and apparently the whole scene is meant to be really funny. As in the funniest part of the film. Regrettably ( Read more... )