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Pro kitchen tools for the home chef, all under $10.

Peanut Butta Cups

Crunchy peanut filling covered in milk chocolate.

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Easy-to-make, impressive candied flowers.

Mexican Native Herbs

mexican native herbs

Can anyone recommend a nice restaurant (mid-range to pricey) in the Upper West Side area that keeps their kitchen open late?

Does anyone know of a place in the city that serves brains? I vaguely remember seeing brains on the menu at a Southasian place years ago, when I was too timid to order it...

I was taught to clean my pastry/basting brushes like fine paintbrushes: dribble a few drops of dishwasher detergent on the bristles near the metal band, then trickle some warm water (a few drops) over that, and massage the...

you cook 'em- With a soft paintbrush or pastry brush , give the 'shrooms a brush to disloge dirt from the nooks & crannies- before cooking, fill your sink (or a pot) with cold, salty water, dumb the mushrooms in, aggitate...

and meringue-powder mixture (or egg whites if eating them is not a concern). With a small, clean paintbrush or pastry brush, paint entire flower with eggwhite mixture Hold the flower over the bowl of granulated sugar and sprinkle...

a (separate) coffee grinder works fine for spices. after each use brush spices out with a dry pastry brush (or a little cheapo paintbrush from the hardware store) then wipe it with a slightly damp paper towel.

Upscale dining in Astoria... any recommendations?

and no baby squash swelling behind it) and using a paintbrush to pollinated the female flowers. Or just wait for the bees to get going. Or are these fully mature squash that are rotting on the ends?

. You use a small paintbrush to paint your designs on the cookies before baking. Never tried this, but her recipes are pretty foolproof and the cookies look just charming.