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Lassi is great.

This is a recipe my father used to make when we were sick as children, with clogged noses and painful throats.

Mug cakes tend to be dry, this one succeeds at being reasonably moist and tasting like… Chocapic breakfast cereals?

This recipe produces a very nicely moist chocolate cake with rich chocolate flavor.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.

"[E]ach computer attends only to one equation or part of an equation.

This is a summer favorite.

Okonomiyaki, which roughly translates to “anything grilled,” can be described as a Japanese cabbage and seafood-flavored pancake.

Shrikhand is an Indian, Gujarati and Marathi, dessert made primarily with yogurt and cardamom.

I am usually against knife sets; they tend to contain useless knives and suboptimal versions of useful knives, but I absolutely love this set of paring knives1.

This is my current lazy-day meal.

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Like most puff pastry recipes, this recipe feels like cheating.

I have always been a big reader.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked When I affirm that something is safe, good, or necessary, how much of it comes f…

“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall.

“Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.” — Dale Carnegie In my early engineering school days, I was lucky to intern with a team of biologists who were really good at presenting their ideas (be it for conferences or internal meetings).

This is pretty much peak cheesy toast experience1: it is crispy, cheesy, very flavorful, yet filling like a generous slice of a savory cake.

I am a consulting mentalist.

“La répétition fixe la notion.” — Anonymous I have been using mnemotechnic techniques for about a dozen years now (they are definitely the one thing I wish I would have known when I was a student with important exams coming up), but I recently became enam…

I am an engineer with a specialty in applied mathematics and computer science.

As a kid, I knew that there were wolves in the dark.

This is an easy pasta dish that has a surprising depth of flavor.

I absolutely love this recipe.

A failure of imagination usually refers to a bad outcome which, despite being predictable, is not imagined and thus not planned for.

“We are now inclined to make much of this distinction between amateur and professional, but it is reassuring to know that these words first were used in opposition to each other less than two hundred years ago.

The one thing one should do with old bananas.

This recipe will produce something flavorful, buttery, garlicky and tomato-y within minutes.

Naans are very easy to make, go well with any curry or thick sauce, and make for a nice change of carbs.

While this is a quick way to pimp up cheap instant noodles, turning them into a pasta dish that feels fancy, this buttered gochujang sauce can also be used to elevate any kind of pasta.

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

This recipe is simple, surprisingly delicious, lets the apple shine through, and yet can be done with flavorless leftover apples.

Jim started digging at the crossroad.

Let’s be frank.

This is a recipe for a basic yellow mug cake.

This text, written in collaboration with ChatGPT, is not about an AI taking over the world.

This recipe is simple, tastes good, has an interesting texture and, more importantly, looks extremely weird making it a fantastic party dessert.

“As an artist I have knocked about among all sorts and conditions of people.

Those cookies are very worth doing.

“Back in my religious days if you independently rediscovered an idea already uncovered by some rabbi 400 years ago it was a big deal and great honor, the whole class would celebrate you.

This cake feels light yet very buttery, delicious and fully decadent.

This is a great pie dough for most open-style pies.

Kougelhopf is the quintessential Alsacian cake.

Hokusai is considered one of the greatest masters in the history of art.

“The most important thing I’ve accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people.

Yitang Zhang was born in 1955.

“King Solomon once searched for a cure against depression.

I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . .

What is it about?

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is surprisingly both a very faithful rendition of the original story and a very Del Toro movie.