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A lot of food groups on Flickr are pure fluff - just pretty photos of food with no utility beyond the visual. Once in a great while I enjoy looking at food, but more often than not, I’m going to want to reproduce it!

I stumbled upon a a few groups whose premise is that each photo must be accompanied by a recipe or a link to a recipe. It combines my love of looking at delicious food with real life reviews and reproduction ability! Recipes to Share, Cooking (recipe required), The (un)official Flickr cookbook, and Food with Blogged Recipes are all recipe based Flickr groups.

One delight that I found through The (un)official Flickr cookbook is this excellent idea of a Lemon-Ginger cookie:

You can find the recipe at the user’s blog, Coconut & Lime.

View my “food” tagged Flickr items to see more yums that yours truly has made or just plain eaten.

I needed a delicious treat, so I pulled out my trusty favorite pastry cookbook (Biggest Book of Cookies - you will need no other pastry cookbook!) and thumbed through until I found this sweet delight.

I highly recommend this option from the book. I shared it with about 15 people and the average rating was about an 8.5.

The cream cheese frosting really made the treat. Half of a brick of cream cheese, half of a stick of butter, and one teaspoon of vanilla mixed together. The recipe says then to add powdered sugar starting with 1 cup and then adding an additional 1 3/4 to 2 1/4 cups, but I found that about 2 1/2 cups total sufficed for me. Of course add more or stop adding to reach the consistency you like. I think the slight less firm consistency of the frosting is what added to this pastry’s draw.

My mouth is watering just looking at it. Seriously, this bar is amazing. So carrot-cake like, yet retaining the hints of pumpkinish goodness.

This afternoon I upgraded the site to use WordPress 2.7. The site was on such an old install - still using 2.2! You won’t see much on the user end, but trust me, the administrative portion is so vastly improved that I’m sure I will be writing more, I almost guarantee it. Isn’t it funny how a nicer environment encourages productivity?

Along with the upgrade, I included the Sociable plugin, which inserts social website sharing links at the bottom of each post. It’s a nice feature if you want to e-mail, tweet, or bookmark something quickly.

I have an awesome pastry post in the works, so stay tuned!

This sandwich is a classic for when I just don’t feel like making anything. Use less honey than in the photos, unless you enjoy a goopy sandwich like I do.

[iPhone] How to make a peanut butter and honey sandwich on 12seconds.tv

Ingredients

• 2 slices of bread
• Butter
• Peanut Butter
• Honey

Directions

1. Toast the bread
2. Butter the bread
3. Spread peanut butter on bread
4. Drizzle honey on top of peanut butter
5. Slap together and enjoy!

You will note that I neatly sliced (pun intended) my bread. I do this as with the quantity of honey that I use, the sandwich is quite rich and I have much difficulty eating it all at once. If I do not have a tall glass of milk, I find it most impossible to finish at all.