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Cooking conversions, owl cake pops and fried chicken top Tumblr food posts
A poster on volume conversions for precision cooks that includes the number of dashes and drops which go into a teaspoon is the most popular food post on Tumblr this week.    

Hot cereal add-ons
Think of this list as a working plan for mixing and matching ingredients in a saucepan of hot cereal — see the accompanying recipe — or for topping a steaming bowl.

‘Top Chef’ Dale Talde opens Park Slope restaurant
Talde has opened his namesake restaurant on Seventh Ave., an eatery with an Asian-American influence and a cool Brooklyn feel.

How to use your leftover egg whites
Last year my colleague Jane Touzalin wrote a wonderfully useful blog post on how to use your leftover egg yolks . Since then, we’ve had quite a few inquiries on just the opposite: what to do with an excess of egg whites. Read full article >>

Make it sweet, honey
IS there anything more beautiful than a golden jar of honey?

A Warm Bowl of Cereal? You Can Top That
Special to The Washington Post

Cold morning? Find comfort in hot cereal
Presented with splashes of hot milk or embellished with dried fruit, raw nuts or seeds, hot cereal can be so much more than a bowl of oats.

Old favorites Queso de bola spread
In my family, Christmas was always marked by two things, Chinese ham and edam cheese. For me, Christmas brings back not memories of sweet, sugary cookies or spicy fruitcake but the savory, salty flavors of edam and the smoky, salty, tangy scents of really good Chinese, cured ham.

Matt Preston cooks Middle Eastern lamb chops
All purpose spice mix: Baharat lamb chops and roast carrot salad. Subtle flavours: Maha chef Shane Delia.

Adding nuts to diet has health benefits
Could a food that sounds like it's bad for you actually be good for you? That's nuts, said June Puett, University of Tennessee Extension agent.