Posts by paulraphael@ear

You can get bowls for $20 from the KA outlet store online (they're "factory refurbs," which just means there's a chance it will have some cosmetic blems). If they're not in stock, they probably will be soon. it's at...

that sounds like an interesting cake. have you tried it with real chocolate? in my experience it's not possible to come close to the depth of flaver of good chocolate with cocoa powder.

sure, i'm interested in taking a look. although past a certain point better isn't about better ... it's about the particular qualities you happen to want. the recipe above is fantastic. it's just not the exact thing that i'm going...

I'm fanatical about chocolate desserts, but don't know enough about the chemistry involved to get what i want all the time. this warm chocolate torte recipe turns out very well, but it's not quite what i'm looking for ... it's...

although, ironically, Joy of Cooking has a recipe for 'possum. with an illustration on how to skin it! this is reason enough for me to recommend it. but my favorite book to give home cooks ... experienced and experts alike ... is...

I have a few variations on brownie recipes; all of them are better than any that i've tasted elsewhere. And they're all simple. think of them as cake. the things that make a light/fluffy cake are all things you want to...

I have a couple of dessert cookbooks that I like very much--particularly Pierre Herme's Chocolate Desserts and Alice Medrich's Cocolat. They both have excellent recipes and some guidelines on technique, but what's missing is the...

My main question is the simplest: what's the ideal internal temperature for a whole cooked chicken? I just compared cookbooks and other sources; some say 140 degrees (James Peterson, who I normally trust with my life, but this seems...

I want to scream out this book recommendation: James Peterson's Essentials of Cooking. Peterson is such a great teacher and cookbook writer ... he has a nack for writing books that are useful to beginners and professionals alike....

Have to agree .. i discovered them, of all places, in boulder, colorado, at a little bar. really, really good.