The Title Pool Annex

Since Osirus is bragging on my cooking, I though I would post about recent recipe finds ...

A recipe for Pad Thai that actually tastes like Pad Thai. My advice is add more fish sauce than called for, and a squeeze of lime while you're cooking doesn't hurt either. Don't be afraid to let it get dry and stick to the pan a little. NOM.

Bibimbap is a Korean dish that Mamadeb posted about making the other day, and I said that the best part was the crispy bits that stick to the hot stone, and I couldn't figure out how to do that at home. A little research gave me the answer -- in my rice cooker, of course! I'm not crazy about the actual ingredients in that link, there are far better ideas, but the method is very exciting.

You can also make pretty good risotto in the rice cooker, and if you add baby spinach it's very pretty, and if you have the kind of rice cooker with a steamer basket on top, you can also cook salmon filets in that and have a lovely meal with no stove or oven involved. Which is nice when it's 90 and humid.

I also made a lovely stovetop risotto with scallops and mushrooms and garlic and white wine that made us very very happy not to be vampires.

This afternoon, I am making tomatillo salsa with tomatillos I picked up at the Farmer's market for the guests we are expecting in a bit. (Also not vampires. We think. I guess we'll find out!)

So, this is was my problem. There's a fabulous-looking cookie/biscuit recipe which is written for people cooking in Britain. All the measurements for the dry ingredients are in weight, not volume. I can find any number of ways to convert metric volume to something I can understand, but I am also dead positive that a cup of sugar weighs more than a cup of flour, so without a kitchen scale I seem to be unable to make these cookies (without a lot of trial-and-error which I frankly don't have the resources or patience for).

Or so I thought before one final Google-search.

Solution: A conversion thingy where you choose a substance and get the approximate weight per volume. OMG. I really love science a lot. Pardon me while I go make some cookies biscuits.

(Crossposted far and wide for the edification of all.)