With the pudding and the pop

I'm all down with the new magazine from America's Test Kitchen Cook's Country.

I mean, it looks like it should be totally cracker, but it's not. It has the same general feeling that Cook's Illustrated has - what with the awesome scientific method recipe making and all - but their recipes just tend a little more toward the home cooking, midwest/deep south cuisine - with which I'm all good.

And I totally love the Cook's Country cooking show - even more than I do the Cook's Illustrated show - which is dang near the equivalent of high blasphemy around these parts.

For example, in a recent issue of Country, they had a recipe for something they called stained glass cake which both looks amazing and sounds fantabulous. I just need to figure out a replacement for the pineapple juice ('cause that's all icky - I'm thinking swapping lemon jello in for the pineapple juice/plain gelatin mix.)

And my search for a non-pineapple version of the recipe lead me to this phenomenal site that is practically food porn. It's full of great photos and recipes - many of which aren't even all jello, all the time.

And I'm thinking that we need more jello recipes around The Homestead.

So this weekend, I'm totally making the stained glass cake.