I grew up eating packaged, store-bought English muffins, and I loved them. I was in my late twenties when I had my first home made English muffin! In the many years since that delicious discovery, I assumed that you needed special equipment or ingredients to make them and never thought to try until my cousin recently sent me a picture of some English muffins he made. Many dozens of muffin experiments later, I’ve settled on an easy, low sodium recipe. It’s a no-knead, overnight dough that looks a

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I grew up in a large Italian family in New York, and I grew up eating homemade marinara sauce. We had sauce at least once a week – on Sunday – and at every family gathering. I didn’t discover pink sauce until I left home for college. I hope I don’t upset the great cooks in my family when I say I...

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The Woolworth Building was the tallest building in the world from 1913, when it was completed, until 1930, when 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building were built. It had 57 floors and was 792 ft (241 m) high, and had a widely acclaimed design. It was the headquarters of the F. W. Woolworth Co., known for "five and dime stores" when I grew up.

Until this week, I had no idea that Jimmy Fallon grew up Catholic. Then I came across this interview from 2012. As it turns out, Fallon…

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My very first passion was for dinosaurs. I had an imaginary Saltopus friend that followed me around, and in first grade I was very proud to say that I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up (I’m sure my parents were just proud I could even pronounce the word at 6 years old). Now, eons later, I’ve excavated a knit top that brings together my first love and current passion with knitting (as well as my constant desire to live that cozy life) in the Stego Sweater! WHAT YOU’LL NEED Needles US5 (3.75 mm) circular needles (or size needed to obtain gauge). Varying cable lengths are recommended to accommodate yoke, body, and sleeve circumferences. (Optional) Set of 4 or 5 double pointed needles in same size as main circular needles for small circumference knitting (sleeves). (Optional) Circular needles up to 1 size larger for colorwork section only (to maintain gauge). US3 (3.25 mm) circular needles or a set of 4 or 5 double pointed needles for collar, body hem, and sleeve cuffs. Notions Tapestry needle 5 - 7 Stitch markers 2 Stitch holders or waste yarn (Optional) Row counter YARN & YARDAGE Yarn Two highly contrasting colors in DK weight yarn. Sizes for this garment are shown in the pattern as 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)(7, 8, 9, 10). Sample uses Yarnaceous Fibers Bronto DK base (85% superwash merino wool and 15% nylon; 246 yd / 225 m per 100 g) using colorway Hold Onto Somebody (off-white speckle) as main color and Zircon (rusty red) as contrast color. https://yarnaceousfibers.com/ Length Required (Includes 10% Excess) MC: 732 (810, 900, 1010, 1112, 1224)(1346, 1480, 1628, 1790) yards 669 (741, 823, 924, 1017, 1119)(1231, 1353, 1489, 1637) meters CC: 328 (360, 396, 436, 472, 498)(524, 566, 612, 660) yards 300 (329, 362, 399, 432, 455)(480, 518, 560, 604) meters SIZING & GAUGE Gauge Stockinette: 22 stitches x 26 rounds = 4” / 10 cm after blocking worked in the round. Ribbing: 26 stitches x 28 rounds = 4” / 10 cm after blocking worked in the round using smaller needles. Sizing Finished garment chest circumference: 29 (33.5, 38, 42, 46.5, 51)(55.5, 58, 62.5, 67) inches / 73.5 (85, 96.5, 106.5, 118, 129.5)(141, 147.5, 159, 170) cm Yoke depth: 9 (9, 10.5, 10.5, 12, 12)(12, 12, 12, 12) inches / 23 (23, 26.5, 26.5, 30.5, 30.5)(30.5, 30.5, 30.5, 30.5) cm Total body length from underarm (customizable): 16 inches / 40.5 cm Sleeve length: 18 inches / 45.5 cm Recommended positive ease is 2” - 6” / 5 - 15 cm at the chest based on personal preference. If sharing your progress and finished piece on Instagram or other social networks, please use the hashtag #StegoSweater so I can admire your beautiful work! Happy knitting, friend!

Hooray, Purim is coming! Another chance to eat great Jewish food, this holiday is a gold mine of dough-filled delights called hamantaschen. Although you can now buy them at other times of the year, when I grew up, they only appeared at Purim, with fillings of all types peeking out from a cookie-liked dough triangle. My favorite hamantaschen fillings are poppy seed – not too sweet and definitely made from scratch, not with that horrible poppy seed filling sold in grocery stores - and chocolate, a modern variation but truly delicious surrounded by the buttery dough on the outside.Fooled you! This post is not about hamantaschen at all, but about kreplach. I’d heard of kreplach before, but had never eaten or made them until last week, when I went looking for traditional Purim recipes. To my amazement, 3-cornered hamantaschen are not the only surprise-filled Purim treats. Kreplach are their savory cousins, filled with meat, potato, or in some communities, turkey. You can float them in chicken soup or serve them as a side dish with a meat or vegetarian meal. If you search for kreplach in cookbooks or online, you’ll notice references to them as Jewish wontons or the Jewish version of pierogi, ravioli. agnolotti, tortellini, or empanadas. Suffice it to say, every ethnic group that cooks with dough has figured out that putting filling in it and cooking those small “packets” is a great idea.

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