So as I was slaving away during my 3-hour-solo-dinner challenge the other night, I figured, I've already got the phyllo dough out and thawed, why not make baklava too? While it was good in principal, and actually ended up being pretty tasty, it could have been a disaster. You see, the recipe calls for 1 to 2 teaspoons of ground cinnamon in the filling. That, my friends, is cayenne pepper. I don't think I even need to say what happened here. Poor Taylor, still on the floor, heard me start swearing in the kitchen and panicked thinking I cut myself. Nope, but I did just dump in a boatload of cayenne into the freshly ground nut filling. I hadn't stirred it yet, luckily, and managed to skim off 'most' of the offending spice. Reground some more nuts, and hoped that you wouldn't be able to taste it in the final product. You couldn't. In fact it was a decent baklava. I used the recipe I found here, using maybe 2/3 almonds (some regular and some marcona), and then the rest walnuts, because I

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