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Christmas Recipes: Baklava | Submitted By: NEONWILLIE —14856 days’ago’
A Greek favorite that makes everyone think you are a master chef and is sooo easy to make!! I taught a Greek friend how to make apple pie and she taught me this fabulous recipe. The phyllo dough for this recipe is found in the freezer section of most grocery stores. Add a little lemon zest to the sugar sauce, if desired.


Easter Recipes: Broiled Scallops | Submitted By: Gail New —14856 days’ago’
My husband thinks these scallops are better than any we have found in any restaurant.


Halloween Recipes: Chocolate Mint Candy Pie | Submitted By: MARBALET —14856 days’ago’
A batch of brownies is baked up to form the crust. Then comes a delicious mixture of cream cheese, marshmallow cream, chocolate-covered mints, whipped cream and instant coffee crystals. Pretty amazing.


Hanukkah Recipes: Cheese Fritters | Submitted By: Rachel —14856 days’ago’
Whip up these sweet and creamy fritters for your holiday table. Cottage cheese is blended with egg, cream, flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and nutmeg. Fried by the spoonful and dusted with confectioner's sugar, these are great served with jam.


4th of July Recipes: Red, White, and Blueberry Shortcake | Submitted By: Bert —14856 days’ago’
Let your colors fly with this easy shortcake. Pretty blueberries and red strawberries get a fluffy white frosting.

Finnotan's Read

What the F***? – Why we Curse. —14856 days’ago’
Steven Pinker in The New Republic The strange emotional power of swearing–as well as the presence of linguistic taboos in all cultures– suggests that taboo words tap into deep and ancient parts of the brain. In general, words have not just a denotation but a connotation: an emotional coloring distinct from what the word literally refers [...]


Republican rats scrabble to take over the sinking ship —14856 days’ago’
Gerard Baker in The London Times This year it’s different. While the Democratic race is, as I noted last week, turning into an extended coronation for the Sun Queen, the Republican contest is a fog of competitive chaos. This is all the more striking because the polls suggest that the party is on course for a [...]


The unbridgeable gap between law and science —14856 days’ago’
Steve Connor in The Independent It is always amusing to see how the legal mind treats science given that both aspects of human activity are about the search for the truth. The trouble is, the law, like politics, is about certainties, whereas science is as much about what we don’t know as what we know for [...]


Gore Wins the Nobel. But Will He Run? —14856 days’ago’
Eric Pooley in Time For the past year, Al Gore has gone about his considerable business without showing much interest in running for president. While picking up an Oscar and an Emmy, publishing a very smart book and playing host at a global concert for the planet, he’s never done more than tease the idea. And [...]


What has Al Gore Done For World Peace? —14856 days’ago’
Damian Thompson in The Telegraph So Al Gore is the joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Admittedly, he has to share it with the United Nations’ climate change panel – but, even so, I think we need to declare an international smugness alert. The former US Vice-President has already taken over from Michael Moore as the [...]