your goose is probably only half-baked at this point

Back when the Star Wars  prequels were coming out, my father -- who is not a Star Wars  fan, by the way -- got ALL excited because KFC had a drink-cup shaped like R2D2, and dragged the entire family out for dinner at KFC just so he could get the drink-cup. I didn't get the appeal at the time, and strongly disliked that cup, because one night, when I was wandering around in the dark, scared, with a flashlight, its shadow projected onto the rocking chair in the living room and gave the illusion of a man sitting in the rocking chair, only there wasn't a man and it terrified me and oh by the way I was a complete and utter chicken  when I was younger. Except I still am now, never mind. *cough* So I've now seen the orig-trig and have a deeper understanding of why my dad wanted that R2D2 cup. Artoo is just a little bucket of sass, he's legitimately the only  reason Luke survives half the stuff he survives, and (unlike me) he isn't afraid of anything . He's easily m...

When I was little, my parents got me the Random House book of Short Stories (which must be out of print because I can't find it anywhere - you'll have to trust me that it's a thing). I loved that book so much, loved all the stories in it, even the one about the green knight who got his head cut off for being a knave. There was one (no knights or beheadings involved) in which a dad and his sons made a lemon pudding, if memory serves, for the boys' mother. It was a funny story - the boys got into trouble for eating too much of the pie, so the dad gave them a beating (beat the eggs) and a whipping (whip the cream) to teach them a lesson - and in the end, Mom gets the pie and says that it tastes like a thousand lemons in the rafters, like the full moon in the sky (something to that effect, anyway). This is not that pie. It is, however, what that pie wanted to be when it grew up. I found the original recipe somewhere between two and three o'clock in the morning, bec...

I found  this recipe  on a young lady's blog and decided to give it a go. It's a chocolate pie made with tofu, which is terribly exciting all by its onesie, but the fact that it  is THE chocolate pie is significant. You see, I've made lots of chocolate desserts over the years I've been cooking. Cakes, pies, puddings, shakes, drinks, ganaches, chocolate-covered you-name-its ... all kinds. This blows all of them out of the water. Way, way out of the water. We cut 1/8th slices and they were too rich for us - we'll cut smaller slices next time. Those are really small servings , and yet they'll be satisfying. (Also, it's made with tofu, which means there's a nod to healthiness in it, but don't be confused - this is a sinful, decadent adventure into hedonism that will make Zachary Comstock frown enthusiastically in your general direction see if it doesn't.) THE Ultimate Chocolate Pie Ingredients 16 oreos (you will need 6 more later) 3 ...