Whoa.  My primer on the 10 most common spatulas (and how to choose the best one for the job) is the lead story on Gourmet.com! My favorite is the home baker’s best friend.

Photo: Ryan (Metrix X)

Too bad there’s not 12 days of Easter, because if you ate a different type of egg each day, it would take 12 days to explore Gourmet’s list of unconventional eggs. There’s iguana eggs, dove eggs (I don’t just mean the chocolate kind), and biggest, baddest egg of all. Do you dare try all of them?

My favorite way to use chicken eggs is in flourless chocolate cookies and Valrhona chocolate pavlova.

Speaking of Easter food, I heard through the grapevine that Peeps are very good toasted, because they have an extra layer of crunchy sugar. Why not take it further and make Peep s’mores with bittersweet chocolate? I was going to try them and report back, but I couldn’t justify buying a whole pack of Peeps just to make one s’more. (I don’t eat Peeps otherwise. They’re too sweet.) I’m just putting it out there: if you have too many Peeps, try making some “sandwiches.”

Beth, a blogger at CookiePie and a soon-to-be author of a dessert cookbook, tagged me for this meme. Since she was kind enough to think of me, I’ll take a break from my regular food posts and disclose some personal details.

What were you doing 10 years ago?

Practicing for my driver’s license exam.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Working at Court TV (now called TruTV) and dreaming of the food world. Lo and behold, I’m now at Gourmet.com, building web pages, updating the news headlines, pitching food products for the weekly newsletter, and (woohoo!) working on an article for April.

Five snacks you enjoy:

1. Granola and yogurt
2. Fruit
3. Chocolate
4. Peanut butter anything
5. Anything else that’s sweet

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Travel to Dubai, all 50 U.S. states and some other cool places
2. Donate it to charities that fight hunger, AIDs and global warming
3. Buy an apartment around Union Square in New York
4. Treat my family and friends
5. Go to Per Se or some other fancy restaurant

Five bad habits:

1. Spending too much time on the Internet
2. Eating too much chocolate
3. Slouching
4. Not getting enough sleep
5. Being unsure of myself at times

Five things you like doing:

1. Cooking/making dessert
2. Socializing online
3. Yoga
4. Watching the performing arts
5. Talking to my mom

Five things you would never wear again:

1. A neon green parka that I wore for St. Patrick’s Day in high school. “Ouch! You’re hurting my eyes!” people said.
2. Anything yellow (it’s a little too close to my skin color)
3. 80’s-style leggings
4. Ill-fitting shoes
5. A tube top (I’ve never worn one before and don’t plan on it)

Five favorite toys:

1. Food processor, because it can make almond macaroons, hummus and chocolate-hazelnut butter
2. Ipod
3. PC (no Macs!)
4. Canon digital Rebel camera
5. Oven

Now I tag Jessie at Cakespy, Niko at Dessert Buzz, Anita at Dessert First, Anna at Cookie Madness and Yoko at Virtual Frolic to participate!

Today is World Nutella Day, my favorite food holiday of the year! It’s a day to cook with, eat and fantasize about chocolate-hazelnut spread. Try making your own or putting some in babka. Don’t forget to vote for my chocolate-hazelnut butter in Culinate’s Death by Chocolate contest. Everyone who votes can win a free trip for two to Napa’s Chocolate Festival on Feb. 23.

For more Nutella recipes, see the roundups, part one and two.

Wow, is it 2008 already? Hopefully, we won’t have as many bummers as last year, like Crisco chocolate and poisoned food from China. I could go for more frozen yogurt, but not necessarily Pinkberry, because homemade is best.

For more headlines, check out Chow’s Year in Food–Vegansexuals, tainted dog food, greenwashing: the people, events, and trends that shaped our diets. Yup, I wrote three blurbs for them.