Yum! :( no more bacon

I also make popovers, they're yummy.

I think I need to drag out the kitchenaid mixer (cherry red) and make some brioche, all this baking talk has got me in the mood for some domestic activity. Look out arteries, brioche takes a pound of butter......in the dough, forget what I slather on when they're hot from the oven.

What a trip - must be the altitude. I didn't realize it would have *that* big of an impact!

For anyone interested, the 1996 edition of the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook has at least one Jello-O recipe (though it's called "Berry Salad" and the only way to find it would be to read every page of the salad section, or to look up "gelatin" in the index and learn that there's a hint to how to unmold a gelatin salad on p. 441--must be a recipe that involves that, too!).

Instructions for how to prepare gelatin remain, though. It gets almost a whole column in "Cooking Basics."

And Barbeque is now called "Grilling."

Two different things, technically. Grilling is cooking meat or veggies relatively quickly over high, direct heat on a grill. True barbequing involves slow cooking over lower and/or indirect heat.

Not according to Better Homes & Gardens.

I love cooking from scratch.

I don't do enough cooking these days though. When I get my own place again I'll be cooking up a storm.

I made a veggie-rice gratin last night.

I substituted every ingredient in the recipe except garlic (which I doubled the amount of).

Do you need the special popover pans to make popovers? I don't have one, and I'm not sure I'm willing to invest in one either.

I got my special popover pan at Bed Bath & Beyond (it's in the "Beyond" section). It wasn't too expensive, it just takes up some space.

I don't think you do (although I, too, have popover pans) If you have parchment paper, I would use a muffin tin and grease it (butter) and then line it with parchment paper so the popovers have a place to rise.

That said, popover pans are reasonable (I think I paid $10 for mine) - I just do not use them too often.