But can you please c&p the America's test kitchen coconut layer cake? I had the recipe and can't find it! Thanks
( my mommy asked me to bake it for her b-day so you'd be doing it for her...)

I canceled my membership. Sorry.

A few PA libraries have subscriptions, according to WorldCat. Might be worth checking...

ABINGTON TOWNSHIP PUB LIBR
BUCKS CNTY FREE LIBR
CARNEGIE LIBR OF PITTSBURGH
MONTGOMERY CNTY, NORRISTOWN PUB LIBR
NORTHLAND PUB LIBR

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

http://www.food.com/recipe/americas-test-kitchen-coconut-layer-cake-434789

I belong to the library, what does that mean? How do I use their subscription? I hate the library because I hate giving books back....

I saw that tru and wanted to make sure it was the real because ATK usually makes people take them down.

Thanks anyway caps....

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that holding is for a print periodical. You'd have to go in...not sure what Caps had, but I'm assuming it was an electronic subscription.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Weird - cant' edit my last post.

Was going to include the catalog record, so you'd have the complete name if you were going to call...



Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

...or you could, you know, click the link to the recipe. Whatever's easier.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Seriously, Appy? It's $35 a year for a subscription. That's less than a single floor mat in your new car.

Who has company at noon on a Thursday? This is what I get for not marrying an old rich person with a really bad heart condition.

BOO!

Its not the money, its the point.

What's the point, then?

What kind of car did you get? Marney wants to know.

So what is this "point" of which you speak? They provide a service that you obviously value. They choose not to accept advertising dollars in order to provide assurance that their reviews and recommendations are unbiased. Is your position that they should be volunteering instead of asking to be paid for their work? Or that they should accept advertising and become corporate shills living off of product placement? Enlighten me.

and yes. You need to tell us which car you purchased.

I'm a bit pissed that they don't throw the online access in with my subscription, and that they carefully disaggregate all the similar lines of their empire into separate sites so that they can charge me multiple times. It feels a little nickel and dimey. Free online access with subscription seems like the fair and decent thing to do. So eff them, I have no online facet any more.

What squid said, and I bought a Noneofyour, the new car by Mindyourown!

I LOVE it!

agreed on the Balkanization of their little territories. That does annoy me.

Chris Kimball looks like the Crypt Keeper and I can't stand him, but they put a lot of work into Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen and it's a lot of useful information. Why not charge a premium for it, if they can?

Or you could just buy a couple of cookbooks. Done and done.

Or, better yet: Occupy America's Test Kitchen!!

What, nobody cares anymore?

Appy appreciates the finer things in life, apparently. Just order it. Anybody that ever considered spending a grand on sheets should have no problem with buying an online subscription.

Yeah PG, I think I was paying $35 each for two sites I hardly ever went to. I'm not sure, the first was $35 (I just google-checked) - maybe there was some reduced price for the second, but STILL! How often do I need a new recipe? Once or twice a month? And there wasn't anything durable about it - unless I wanted to print or screencap. So 2x a month is $17 per! How many back copies of Cook's illustrated could I buy for THAT?!?

Assholes.

Squid, It's $35 a year, not each month, right? So closer to $2-3 a recipe.
I went with the online subscription in an effort to de-clutter, but the truth is that I much prefer clipped, torn, flour-smudged printed recipes to accessing them on a laptop. It does deter me from buying more magazines because I keep telling myself I'll preview them on-line first and I never get around to it, so I do save money.

Appy won't tell because her husband bought a very expensive car and she's begging for an online recipe.

I wouldn't either, I guess.

Anons, judge not lest you be judged.

I guess you all download your music legally , you're all so upstanding and wonderful.

What's that have to do with anything? As if it matters, I buy my music. Always have, always will.

Just answer the question, Claire. Did you work for the money to pay for those earrings?

Or perhaps she knows us well enough to know that we'll criticize her car choice, whatever it happens to be. Hell we'll even criticize her decision to buy a new vs. used car and her decision not to post details. I venture so far as to presume that we would even pick out a nice wreath for her to hang on the front grille. 'Cause that's just how we roll around here.

What funk said!!

You are right PG. Yearly. My mistake. STILL! STILL!

As if you care. Just spill it already.

Ok, how about this - did the salesman open a bottle of champagne after you signed the papers?

Your fantasy of my life is so lover-ly.

You throw it out there? $1,000 sheets. Spa. You don't work.

Isn't that what you're trying to project?

I really wish I would have bought those sheets.

So - yes.

Let's see. You LOVE it. No kids. BMW M3? The terrible Boxster? Please, not a stupid SUV.

650i convertable!

Anon 2:38 made me bounce in my seat and clap.

Me too, Neady. Good quote.

You are an enigma, Appy. Is that Flava Flav in your avatar? It makes no sense!

I'm not sure whether to believe you or not. That's a $90K car.

But that certainly is throwing something out there.

That is the most absurd car on the planet, I would never ever in a million years, spend that on a car. It disgusts me.

Biffy made this avatar for me. Flava-FLAV!

It's not your money, so who cares!?!? Spendy spend spend.

Anon, you know nothing about me or my money. But speculate all you like!

Pfft...the 650i convertible is just a Sebring with fancy tail lights.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I've noticed of all the snooty luxury car owners, BMW drivers are the least courteous and behave as if they own the road.

Its his car, but this is what I wanted him to get: SO CUTE!



course it's green and koren made which has two strikes against it in his book, but I liked it.

Yeah, 'Neady - in NYC, you can always count on:
1.Luxury car owners
2. (To a lesser extent) Livery cabs

to completely disregard a red light. Even if I have a walk sign, and I see one of a car from one of those categories, I always hesitate before crossing.

(Seen on the way to work earlier this week: NYC Traffic Authority van (empty), parked diagonally across one lane, completely blocking an oncoming wailing FDNY truck. The traffic authority driver casually strolled up, stood beside the van, and shooed cars out of the OTHER lane for the Fire Dept. to pass. Weird)

There are not may cars that can get away with wearing that color. I like it. It is cute.

That's funny 'Neady.

Here, it is without question owners of white Hyundais. I have labored behind at least 6 in the past month driving 10 to 15 miles below the speed limit, swerving as if drunk from texting, getting cut off. I realized at some point that they were all (different) Hyundais, and that they were all grey or white.

So my experience set differs from yours.

When I had a BMW though, I most definitely owned the road. So there's that.

Here it is Prius drivers. Am fairly certain that it is not coincidence that Prius appears to be a combination of the words "prick" and "penis". Friends in Seattle report the same findings.

Round these parts it's the lux SUVs, escaldes, land rovers accura. Texting drivers who own the road and two car spaces...

If you think Prius drivers are bad, i got stuck behind a Nissan Leaf today. Huiy.

What's the difference between a porcupine and a BMW?

With a porcupine the pricks are on the outside.


Always loved that one.

Similarly, what's the difference between a Harley and a Hoover?

With a Hoover, the dirtbag is on the inside.

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I always heard your porcupine one with porches, smirk.

Haters.

Haters gonna hate

Squid's right cook's illustrated is a nickel and dime company. And I'm not on board with a lot of Chris Kimball's BS. I think I read he's a history teacher or something. No formal training.

Chris Kimball annoys me as well. The schtick of always having a problem to solve gets rather old. Can't they just come up with an improved recipe without saying that my grandmother's cooking sucked or that what I've been eating is dried-out crap? The honeymoon was definitely over when he wrote an intro that plagiarized this story almost verbatim and attributed it to a neighbor:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/farce/ropedeer.asp
That said, they do have some great recipes and I love it when they go into the science behind a technique.

Both me and my brother own Korean born cars. His is Hyundai, mine is Kia.

SO many extras for the cost.

My bff just bought a Honda Civic and she doesn't have half the cool stuff I have. Plus, she's already had to take it in to be re-sealed. And, my warranty is longer.

Suck it!

I only buy North Korean cars.





Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Tank you Debbie Spenditnow

I wish I had the luxury of pinpointing a particular demographic out there on the lovely highways and byways of California. Alas, I can count on pretty much every single car except my own to be driven as if by a person simultaneously lancing a hemmorhoid.

The Hyundai Veloster: because you don't REALLY need to see out of the rear of your car. Just change lanes, already.

Appy drives a '75 Ford F150 with a bunch of barking dogs in the bed.

and a sticker in the back window that reads "Save a horse, ride a cowboy".