So...Cheese is your art? You're just a little bit in love with it?

I wear the cheese; the cheese does not wear me.

I wear the cheese

Well, you do live with a toddler....

Sooner or later, you're gonna want cheese. And the second- the second - that happens... You know I'll be there. With cheese.

"I like to have several kinds of rum on hand, including a nice dark rum, and of course some Framboise, a good quality bottle of champagne..."

What? It's how I live. You can eat fairly well if unexcitingly for a long while on the things I have lying around in my cupboards--I'm big on ingredients, but you can have a rollicking party with my alcohol that'd last days and days.

As long as you know what a cake batter is supposed to look like (or bread dough, or whatever), you can tweak a baked good just as easily as an entree.

Unless, for instance, you take the buttermilk out and replace it with whole milk and are still depending on the baking soda for leavening. All those little rules are second nature for you, but I don't think they are for most people baking.

Well, you do live with a toddler....

She wears the cheese.

And so does the dog.

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As long as you know what a cake batter is supposed to look like (or bread dough, or whatever), you can tweak a baked good just as easily as an entree.

Unless, for instance, you take the buttermilk out and replace it with whole milk and are still depending on the baking soda for leavening.

For all values of "what a cake batter is supposed to look like" which also includes "and the basics of baking chemistry," natch. (Why can't you people just read my mind when I leave important clarifying phrases out of my posts? Honestly!)

I think in general, the first time I try a recipe I follow it as exactly as I can, but after that -- if I use it often I play with it.

I say this despite the fact that sometimes, I take ideas from several recipes to do one dish. Assuming I understand the overall technique.

Why can't you people just read my mind when I leave important clarifying phrases out of my posts?

I, of course, read your mind perfectly. I'm just making sure everyone else gets the jist.

Today is day 1 meal 1 of the great carb depletion diet. Raiding the cupboards has provided me with one pre-workout applicable meal, which is a blueberries & cream (literally--all my milks had too much sugar) soy protein smoothie. It's really disgusting. I need to go grocery shopping to make it through these two days.

From the subpoena article, about stripping Gonzalez' office of the ability to appoint federal prosecutors without Senate approval:

The White House had signaled last week that it would not oppose the legislation if it also passed the House and reached Bush's desk.

Gee, 94-2 in the Senate and he decided not to oppose... will wonders never cease?