How to Stretch: Corned Beef

The art of using up left-overs is nearly just as important as knowing how to make the beginning meal. Lack of ability to feed the entire horde with leftovers can sometime force people to ingest peanut butter and jelly sandwhich, an cruel punishment indeed.

In this case, The Troll was faced with the challange of feeding the horde with leftover corned beef, and the first rule of leftovers is that if you don’t make it good enough to be eaten, it doesn’t count as using up leftovers (because no one will eat it). Left over corned beef, besides the original challenges of being fatty and salty, also smells putrid when simply heated up in the microwave and eaten in the same manner as the night before. A solution must be found. . .

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Chocolate Eclairs

Endless Eclairs

There. I just finished spending an unbelievable amount of time putting together what is basically a photo-essay on how to make chocolate eclairs. Everything has been broken up into small enough steps a child could follow it. Can somebody please make all that time spent worth it by making eclairs this weekend? You won’t regret it. Eclairs are high on the list of top 10 desserts in the world for a reason; they strike the delicate balance of being so rich and flavorful that you want to keep sticking them in your mouth and yet light and un-filling enough that you can keep eating them.

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