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kleinbl00  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Grappling with hipster-hate

Palmiers are totally fake but let's be honest: you're not going to buy a roll of puff pastry to blow on palmiers and anything made up mostly of butter and sugar is likely to be pretty good if it's fresh. If you want to know if your Mexican restaurant is any good, order the albondigas. Hard to fake decent albondigas. If you want to avoid food poisoning, order a quesadilla. Hard to fuck up a quesadilla.

I love quesadillas and I'm fond of palmiers. Croissants? Those bitches are execution-dependent.

"Cupping" is the use of glass jars and flame in order to bring humors and bodily toxins to the surface of the skin.





_refugee_  ·  3190 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In terms of baking, though, few things feel better than baking your croissants after 3 days of chilling, rolling, folding, turning, etc, and seeing them actually turn out. (On the other hand, it's a real downfall - not to pun - when they don't.)