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Taste Science and Baked Oatmeal

In The National Culinary Review for November/December, Laura Taxel discusses the Science of Taste. Here are a few snippets I thought were interesting. What do you think? Interesting? or boring? -We typically eat and drink items in combination which can effect perception. We become temporarily less sensitive to a dominant compound as we consume it which is why a pleasant tasting dry wine suddenly becomes sour after a few bites of a sugary dessert or a vinaigrette dressing on our salad inhibits our ability to detect tart notes in a wine making it seem flat. -There are four common [...]

By Joanne|2012-11-27T12:30:41-05:00November 27, 2012|Breakfast ideas|3 Comments

Unmatched and Panettone Fruited French Toast

The back roads were covered in snow and the challenge of running through car tire tracks resulting in uneven, packed, sometimes slushy snow got the better of me. The Parkway wasn’t safe since the side walks weren’t cleared. Shane and I were out early trying to cover as many of the 15 scheduled miles as we could. We eked out 9 miles, and by mile 8 my legs were calling it quits. We got home, Shane was packed with icy sludge on his belly. He was cleaned up, my clothes were traded from long winter leggings to shorts, we went [...]