Why plating is important

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Y’know what plating is, yeah? It’s making the food look pretty on the plate. Not so pretty that you refuse to eat it for fear of disturbing the magnificent work of art (like that would ever happen anyway) but pretty.

I read this Bean and Corn Salad recipe on Home-Ec101.com and a lightbulb [...]

Interlude: Humiliations Galore

This entry is part 4 of 10 in the series atypicalrelationship

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His parents went to Greensboro for dinner and a hotel room to celebrate a special family occasion.

Which means that we had one of the very few chances for us to have some quiet alone time.

After a full day that involved trying to pull the toilet in my bathroom to unclog it [...]

Round 1 goes to Daniel.

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This morning I made the Sneaky Chef’s Extra Sneaky Chocolate Breakfast Ice Cream. The texture was perfect, the recipe as written was downright awful. With only 1/2 teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder to color an entire 1/4 avocado and a frozen banana, the result looked as if it belonged in a diaper, not [...]