How To Make Cookies In Your Car

Why spend the next heatwave just sweating and complaining? Now you can take advantage of the heat, and your car’s oven-like temperatures, by using it to bake cookies. A recipe and technique is brought to us by Baking Bites.

So if you have a car and 2 1/2 hours to kill — you can have fresh baked cookies, and a car that smells better than the finest tree air freshener.

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The Pig and The Potato: Sweet Potato and Pancetta Hash

Sweet potato… The fluorescent orange alternative to its equally boring white, or Yukon Gold brethren. When not trying to be like a regular potato — either getting mashed, or cut into french fry form — the sweet potato can be extraordinary, but needs some help. And as we’ve learned, nothing plays a better supporting role than a pork-flavored sidekick.

Casting bacon in this role would be a mistake — it would just hog the spotlight, and we’re merely trying to complement the sweet potato. Our pork co-star for this installment of Power to the People is bacon’s Italian cousin, pancetta.

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