Author Archives: Garrett Wollman

Chocolate tasting: week 1

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As I mentioned a few posts ago, I wanted to organize a chocolate tasting. We have a small group of chocolate-lovers in CSAIL, and next Tuesday will be our first of at least six weekly tasting sessions. During this time, … Continue reading

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Debugging a weird network problem (or: IPv6 privacy addresses, just say no)

All you folks who followed my blog for food porn are going to want to skip this one. The past ten days have been pretty horrible for me at work, thanks to the combined effect of five different network issues. … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Joanne Chang’s brioche au chocolat

Having made Joanne Chang’s brioche dough a couple of weekends ago, I was faced with the enviable task of deciding what to do with the second half-batch. Between her two cookbooks (Flour and Flour, too) she gives half a dozen … Continue reading

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Organizing a chocolate tasting

I’m thinking about organizing a chocolate tasting at work, and hoping other people out there will have done something similar. This is just intended for fun, but I still want to run a proper taste-test protocol, and actually determine the … Continue reading

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Really simple recipes: chipotle chicken salad

I often by prepared chicken salad at Whole Foods. The taste and quality are pretty reasonable, and the cost is not horrible compared to the effort required to actually make it myself (cooking chicken breast, chopping vegetables, etc.). But although … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Joanne Chang’s brioche

It seems that one of the recipes nearly every home baker needs to try from Joanne Chang’s cookbook Flour is brioche. Not only is brioche a rich, buttery, wonderful treat on its own, but Chang also uses the dough as … Continue reading

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Added some Joanne Chang recipes to my pointer page

I went through Joanne Chang’s Flour cookbook the other day and marked all of the recipes I though I wanted to try. Now I’ve made those bookmarks electronic, on my “Recipe Pointers” page. (You’ll still have to actually buy the … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Jeff’s Spicy Turkey Burgers (from Flour, too)

A few weeks ago, I went through Joanne Chang’s cookbook Flour, too marking recipes that sounded interesting. I’m not a huge fan of turkey burgers in general, and after doing the nutritional computation on these I became even less of … Continue reading

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Nutrition facts formatting

I made some changes to the blog’s CSS so that the nutrition information looks more like the FDA recommendation, and learned a bit about WordPress.com’s CSS setup in the process. Unfortunately, I can’t do much about the fonts: WordPress.com allows … Continue reading

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Other people’s recipes: Serious Eats’ plum sorbet

A week ago, @SeriousEats tweeted: The article by Max Falkowitz included several tips and techniques for making a sorbet that’s neither too icy nor too sweet, and provided several fully-worked recipes, including one for plum sorbet. I had a quart … Continue reading

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