TasteSpotting

www.thekitchn.com

helpful stylistic and formatting hints on how to write a recipe like a professional, you know, for those of us food bloggers with plans to land a (cook)book deal ;)

blog.kingarthurflour.com

i thought i was doing well enough by "making" Egg McSarah's at home but...king arthur has you baking the english muffins, too

www.scrumptiousphotography.com

turkey meatballs with melted havarti cheese and tomato sauce . healthy, so you're allowed to ruin it with dessert

www.eatmedelicious.com

someone get me a bottle of super spicy hot mustard for these home baked soft pretzels STAT

www.saveur.com

you never think to make mashed potatoes in summer, but if saveur is doing it, why the buttery creamy hell not? OH yeah. butter and bikinis don't mix. (but i have been told they will emulsify!)

www.thestylephile.com

if i had the money and the physique to wear a roberto cavalli dress, i would. but i can't! so i'll make do with a cavalli-designed bottle of Coke Light (btw, had no idea there was such a thing as coke "light")

www.perpetualkid.com

robot bobble head timer for when i'm cooking at my sister's house. double duty "time out" timer to keep niece quiet while cooking with kitchen timer!

www.thedeliciouslife.com

TASTESPOTTING TOP 12 from *last* last week ending 7.26. check back later after i crunch data all night for this past week ending 8.01 plus some thoughts on what makes a submission "clicky"

thepioneerwoman.com

best use EVER of a pop can of crescent roll dough and, uh, a can of pop? apple dumplings with MOUNTAIN DEW.

bentobjects.blogspot.com

the reality is, cupcakes *wish* they could be as good as a muffin, but without much substance, they *have* to get all that frilly frosting "work done" [cupcake clique and other cuteness at BentObjects]

rosylittlethings.typepad.com

even when it's not pink and red and baked, it's still beautiful from posie [chicken tikka masala, recipe from america's test kitchen]

5typesofsugar.blogspot.com

yes, july is over. yes the daring bakers are done with their filbert gateaus, but i couldn't let this one from 5 types of sugar pass...

lemonbasil.blogspot.com

"Good food doesn't have to be expensive, time consuming, or only for special occasions" [eggplant, tomato, cabernet sauvignon honey-mustard vinaigrette, goat cheese, pine nuts, and cilantro]

www.thewednesdaychef.com

"flummery." try not to say it out loud and smile. the wednesday chef's blackberry version of a simple pudding

www.101cookbooks.com

ricotta cheesecake recipe that serves as a good base on which to build...heidi did zucchini, but suggests olives, sun-dried tomatoes, chives, spices, spinach, corn...anything really.

209.85.171.104

cream filled take on sachertorte that can be ordered online. doubt they deliver overseas, but still love reading the english translation of the cake: "in love cacao is the best escapes from the nose"

www.rachaelraymag.com

probably going to foodie hell for linking to rr BUT when you're short on ideas or time, it's not a bad idea to decorate cakes with everyday items like...teddy grahams (huh?) and red licorice whips.

www.dizzy-dee.com

chocolate cake from scratch that bakes in five (5) minutes in a coffee mug (pig design optional).

209.85.171.104

if breakfast sets your mood for the day as lolita muses, then i may have to eat yellow and pink every morning

www.italianfoodforever.com

not a huge fan of mussels (unless it's moules frites, in which case i only eat the frites), but Deborah's Puglian breaded mussels could change me

www.outblush.com

Pizza Pro, because cutting AND serving slices with one hand is essential! (we really should be keeping track of the stupidcoolest kitchen gadgets ever, shouldn't we?)

blog.evite.com

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it's not the end of summer. YET. but given all the materials you need and the instructions, you might want to get started on the watermelon keg now [via Ho ...

www.nytimes.com

plugs, 60-item touch screen menu, orders delivered to table, Buddakan, Balthazar and Rosa Mexicano...i might go to JFK's JetBlue Terminal 5 just to hang out

www.johnnycupcakes.com

baking up...a t-shirt store? Johnny Cupcakes opens the first west coast store today in LA, and while most of the t-shirt designs are a little too edgy for me, i love the black bakeware handbag

www.perpetualkid.com

first slip into that bacon bra (#11535) then pop a couple bacon mints and you're on your way to a sizzling evening of pork. (oh, did i go there? i did)

www.cb2.com

lucky lucky bay area...cb2 opens in san francisco today, so you can get subliminal etiquette dinnerware to use tonight: "clean your plate" and "use a napkin" dishes, "don't slurp" bowls

cookbookcatchall.blogspot.com

totally charmed by cookbook catchall's zha ziang mian, chinese street food of pork and black bean noodles (i know it as korean-chinese, jjia jiang myun)

www.latimes.com

perhaps i've been stubborn. maybe a little snobby. but keeping it "pure" by washing greens the old fashioned way is a waste of time. zyliss makes LA Times' highest rated salad spinner

www.sfgate.com

korean again! ok, so there's chinese dan dan noodles, japanese soba and ramen too, but 2 of 5 recipes for asian cold noodles (heat relief!) are korean, one of which is a favorite, naeng-myun

www.dailymail.co.uk

are you a GASTROSEXUAL? new generation of men pursue cooking as a "macho" hobby and use their kitchen prowess to seduce women (but no increase in doing dishes, which is what turns ME on)

inventorspot.com

looking for unagi-nobori because it's 'eel drink' season, and found this awesome list: 10 Weird Japanese Soft Drinks, with #1 Okkikunare, which "makes them bigger" ("them?" you guessed it.)

www.epicurious.com

maybe better than the hush puppies of my grade school memory...from red lobster. maybe. [indian spiced crab hush puppies recipe]

www.wallflour.com

for all that mayolkiness, they really should be called evil-ed eggs, don't you think? but if they're tiny, it's probably okay to eat a few [recipe: deviled quail eggs]

www.amazon.com

one of the greatest foodTV shows ever, Two Fat Ladies, has only been available on vhs, but all (only?) 24 episodes are on dvd, released TODAY. bubble and squeak, baby. [via: food & wine]