I think I'm so desensitized to poor reasoning skills and homphobes hiding behind some twisted corpse of Christ that the thing that bugs me most about the FCC letters is the spelling.

Seriously, it's almost malicious how bad the spelling is.

I think when you cream butter and sugar you are dissolving the sugar into the butter more than adding the crystalliness to the butter.

My understanding was that the crystalline structure of the sugar helped aerate the butter. If agave dilutes the butter (it seems to be more liquid than honey and maybe maple syrup) then it'll be harder to trap the air than if I creamed the butter solo.

And you'd still want the agave distributed through the butter.

Also, in many cakelike recipes that start out that way there is a later step where you alternate adding flour and the rest of the fluids to the batter--those fluids are distributed through the batter completely--I was wondering if the agave was better suited there.

Experimentation will tell.

I'm on a train! (no homo)

One of them has hoped to be a quarterback and now he will turn out gay. I am actually considering to check him for HIV. Thanks CBS for turning my son GAY.

Dear Sir,

Are you sure it was Prince at the half-time show that made your son gay? Perhaps it was the big sweaty men in tight shiny pants hunched over with their hands between each others' legs that made your son gay. We're just sayin'.

Signed,

Everybody Who Is Not A Fuckwit.

I couldn't figure out if that first FCC letter is satire or just sad.

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Googling seems to confirm that you are right, ita. I can't see the physics of it, but that doesn't mean anything.

I have until recently always creamed butter with a wooden spoon. I have to rethink all my cookie making.

I just read this piece in Salon that made me want to try cooking with more obscure grains, like quinoa, spelt, and mesquite.

DH just made a casserole with quinoa last week. It was tasty. He got the recipe in Women's Health.

I can see why a casual observer might look at Prince and go "gay?" though. He's a tiny man who wears a lot of makeup and purple velvet.

Actually I use the example of Prince for why people like Tom Cruise and Travolta ARE gay. Cuz Prince? It's not like there's a lot of rumors going around about him.

(unnecessary no homo)

I thought Prince was bi, back in the day. Or else very comfortable in his masculinity.