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Steve Jobs Cheese Head Feeds Your Next Geek Party [PICS]

When you really need those hors d’oeuvres to impress your geek friends, look no further than the Steve Jobs Cheese Head. Upon witnessing the photographic evidence you may be hungry — or you may be just plain disturbed. But if you’re brave enough to give it a try for your next cocktail party, check out the full instructions on The Cooks’ Den . Tags: apple , cooking , Food , steve jobs
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Trim and Prepare an Artichoke Properly [Food]

Artichokes are, like mangoes , pineapples , and avocados , not inherently easy to cut up and prepare for eating. Serious Eats suggests getting some lemons, water, and a sharp knife ready, then digging in to pull out every single edible piece. More
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Learn to Cook Steak Sous-Vide for Perfection Every Time [Cooking]

Sure, throwing a steak on a fire-hot grill feels pretty manly, but don't pretend it's easy to cook it just right. Cooking steak in a sous-vide water bath is all the rage now, and will get you perfectly cooked beef every time. More
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Make Potato Chips in the Microwave Without Sacrificing Crunch [Food]

Microwaves have gotten a bad rap with some people because they just don't cook some things as they should be cooked—food blog Savory Sweet Life attempts to squash this misconception with a lesson on cooking potato chips in the microwave. More
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Cook En Papillote for Efficient, Healthy Meals [Cooking]

Yesterday Lisa showed us a easy, full meal cooked on one baking sheet . Want another meal you can pull off with little fuss and hardly any cleanup? Cooking "en papillote," or in wrapped packets, is healthy and fairly foolproof. The method behind cooking en papillote is to put some or all of the components of a meal into a wrapped packet of some sort—pastry dough, banana or bamboo leaves, aluminum foil, wax paper, or whatever you've got that's oven-safe. Moisture-rich food will steam itself in healthy fashion, but end up infused with other ingredients you toss in
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Make Scrambled Eggs and Bacon in the Oven [Recipes]

Scrambled eggs and bacon are a hearty, heart-warming way to start a day, but they require a bit too much stove-top work and dish dirtying for a typical morning. Not so if you follow this oven technique, which keeps your eggs fluffy. The TipNut blog's recipe calls for 12 eggs, but that's a number you can easily break down into smaller portions. Add a good bit of milk and a bit of butter, add the mixture to a greased pan, place in an oven warmed to 350 degrees, and then: When eggs begin to set (after cooking for about 10 minutes), take a spatula and push the eggs from side to side to scramble them (you'll notice the edges are where the eggs first start cooking), make sure to scrape the bottom and sides well. Continue cooking for approximately another 15 minutes, stirring every 5 minutes or so to scramble as the eggs really start setting up.
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Turn Left Over Mustard into No-Waste Salad Dressing [Food Hacks]

If you hate waste and it seems a shame to throw away a jar of spicy or exotic mustard without getting the last bit of flavor out of it, this clever trick will turn that left over mustard into salad dressing. At MarthaStewart.com they're big fans of lists and galleries of clever and trendy things you can do around the house. In this week's "40 Good Things" list they share a great tip for using the mustard left after the last sandwich is made, to create home made dressing: Have a tiny bit of mustard left in the jar? Toss in a few ingredients, and shake a tangy Dijon vinaigrette right in the container
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Make 17 Meals from One Chicken [Cooking]

Food blog Cheap, Healthy, Good is all about stretch food frugality very, very far, while keeping the meals tasty and leftover-friendly. An older post illustrates how one roast chicken can make 17 meals for a total of $26. Blogger and serious home economist Kristen Swensson bought a 7-pound Purdue roaster chicken for $6.92, less than $20 worth of other supplies over a week, and gave herself some rules for cooking dinners and lunches. Swensson went for no repeats or very similar dishes on the menu, used as many pantry goods as possible, and tried to add as little fat as possible to the plates. How'd it turn out?
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Use a Smartphone Car Mount as a Kitchen Helper [Clever Uses]

Most smartphones have one or two great cooking apps, and while using your pocketable device to help out in the kitchen can be more convenient than finding a place for your laptop or wasting paper, smart-home blog Unplggd has a clever suggestion: Our new apartment has some pretty archaic kitchenware. So old, we can't quite figure out how to use the timer on the oven. While we could just look at the clock and determine how long something needs to be on the stovetop or in the cooker, we tend to get distracted easily and realize only too late that we've been cooking for too long. In order to keep from burning all our meals we now use an iPod Touch and a car mount. It's sort of like a tinkering third hand but for the kitchen
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Bake Homemade Granola Bars [Cooking]

Whether you want to make fully organic granola bars, you can't find bars without ingredients you're allergic to, or you can't find granola bars anywhere with dried mango in them, making your own granola bars lets you get it just right. Over at the design and household blog Wit and Whistle they've detailed how to make your own homemade granola bars. The ingredients list is simple—I'm not a baking hobbyist by any measure and I have every ingredient but wheat germ in my kitchen right now—and making them is even simpler. Just mix everything in a bowl, making sure the granola mixture is evenly coated. Dump it all in a 9x13 pan, bake for 20-30 minutes at 350F, and cut the bars while they're still warm
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