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Think you can't cook? Have a slew of reasons why not? There's hope. Find out how and why one 60-year old Brit took inspiration from 101 Cookbooks to make dishes like creme brulee, corned beef hash, and Stilton pancetta chicken. It's never too late to learn, kiddoodles!

got even worse, as we allowed ourselves to indulge in all the ultra-sugary cereals that were denied to us growing up. Then, about a year or so ago, we decided maybe there was something to that whole "wheat allergy" diagnosis, and breakfast became a meal again. Since then we've gone through several iterations on the perfect breakfast plan, leaving omelettes behind when we got worried about the teflon in our non-stick pan (any hints on how to properly oil a pan so you can flip the omelette in a plain steel pan are greatly appreciated, as we can't seem to master that art), so we switched to oatmeal and fruit, leaving that in our wake for steak and eggs (scrambled or fried), jumping over to a protein smoothie regimine--with all sorts of reversions, switchbacks and combinations of those, as the mood has struck us. And in this shift of waking hours, we've discovered we like a nice breakfast at home. We like chatting with the spouse over the paper, we like the stillness of the day, we like our morning tea. So while we won't go so far as to say we're morning people, we will give a shout out to what we feel is the most tranquil meal.

First off, we suppose we should mention July 4. After all, it's only American, right? And everyone has a picnic, right? But before you go off all half-cocked and over-marinated, check out what Biggles has to say over at Meathenge, all right? On the other hand, maybe some of you aren't grillers. In that case, listen to Food Musing's Grandma, who has some good advice on that very picnicky dish, fried chicken. And Celeste has some musings on independence and party planning over at Chopstick Cinema. Lastly, Wayne from 101 Cookbooks writes about his lunch at the White House, which, regardless of your opinion of the occcupants (at any time), is just about as perfect a pairing of the Fourth of July and food as you can get.

, which sounds absolutely thorough with its ingredient profiles. We're still not sure how she turns that into a recipe for home-made energy bars, but it works. Catherine gets this week's nomination for "Best Reason the Internet Needs Smell-o-Surfing" with her olfac-terrific posting about Portobello and Veggie towers. And we're not sure how it smells, or tastes, but it certainly took guts--or not, as the case may be--for Rae to make a completely vegan haggis. And Berkana, well, maybe next time she'll carmelize the onions more. Random vegetable soup fact: Conan O'Brien has said that one of the reasons he chose Andy Richter for his partner in late-night was because at their first meeting over lunch, Andy ordered borscht.