For the sake of transparency, here are all the ways in which I disrespected the official Friends cookbook recipe, due to being overly empowered by Ina Garten's pandemic Instagram, which emphasizes using what you have around the house: I didn't have 12 ounces of a 70% dark chocolate bar, so I just took several half-eaten chocolate bars and chopped them up, then added a handful of chocolate chips. When you’re at DEFCON-5 with a toddler, you just get to mixing and don’t let the details slow you down.

He is in the restaurant waiting for someone to meet him, but that never ends up happening, turning it into an awful disaster of a date that was one of the worst of the whole series. All this to say I trust Amanda and plunged into baking with blind abandon, just as Phoebe plunged into becoming a surrogate for her brother's triplets.So when I got to the part of the recipe that instructed me to brown the butter, let it cool, and refrigerate it for an hour, I instead put the sort of brown butter in the freezer for 20 minutes. Despite looking like chocolate and being branded as 'better than chocolate,' the taste is nothing like it, as everyone who tastes it winds up stating that it is horrible, with both Rachel and Phoebe hating the food, with Phoebe claiming "this is what evil must taste like. In a large mixing bowl or stand mixer, beat butter, both sugars, and vanilla extract until smooth and fluffy.

One of the best aspects of Reservation Dogs, FX’s brilliant dramedy about an indigenous community in Oklahoma, is how it both reclaims and refines the pop cultural depiction of Native American spirits. I don't know much, but I do know that in the episode in question, the big reveal is that Phoebe's grandmother's cookies were just the recipe on the back of the Tollhouse chocolate chips bag. Moments after Mabel peacefully drifts away, Elora rushes outside where encounters the spirit version of her grandma.

She was indirectly mentioned in that installment by Big (Zahn McClarnon) as one of the people he was unable to save. The season 3 episode named after her reveals that she’s definitely that but that she was also once a member of the community herself. Cheesecake might not seem like an amazing piece of food, but when it's shown how the cheesecake is actually consumed then it makes sense why fans remember it so vividly, with this being an incredible moment.