Alton Brown did a Good Eats recently on Popovers. He claimed it to be the most versatile or useful recipe ever. Or something like that.

So I whipped out my "Baking with Julia Child" cookbook this morning and made some. The recipe is really easy - flour, milk, eggs, butter, salt. You mix it up in a blender. You can bake them in muffin tins.

You'll note the absence of sugar. They are like a roll with giant air bubbles purposefully baked into them. You can add butter, honey, molasses, or whatever you want in the middle.

In the end our verdict was "what's so great about these?" Bland savory dough with very little substance. Meh.

I like to cook. Mostly I like to bake, but time in the kitchen where you can create something that is good is always rewarding. I just spent my lunch hour going through a handful of blogs that I like to read. One is the 37Signals "Signal vs. Noise" blog. They had a link to a cool cooking site: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Their recipes aren't lists and paragraphs. It's a chart of sorts. You'll have to go check it out and see what I'm talking about.

Are there any flavors that just go together for you - like chocolate and peanut butter? I have one that got started by chance after a meal - probably something from Sonic. They give you peppermints with your food, you see.

So my flavor combination is peppermint with Diet Coke. It's to the point now that if I have a peppermint I have to have a Diet Coke. The carbonation in the Coke makes the peppermint come alive!