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  • Work the butter into the flour mixture with your hands or a pastry blender until it resembles pea-sized crumbs.

    Cornbread -- how sweet it is | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2009

  • Often, they'd be up in arms about hygiene, whining that the park is sea of urine within an island of excrement, when the only thing that ought to be flushed is their ideology, which exists as testament to their ability to skillfully rationalize their rampant greed and modify it into substitutes palatable for public consumption and their own pea-sized consciences.

    Michael Woods: Zuccotti Park Day 54: No Smell of Urine or Feces Michael Woods 2011

  • Idiot (since you like to start off by name-calling) – what part of “leave the tax rate cuts for the lower - and middle-classes in place because we need to spend our way out of this recession” does your pea-sized brain not understand?

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: January 22, 2010 2010

  • I'm sure the "Obama doctrine" is way too complex for her pea-sized brain.

    Palin blasts the 'Obama doctrine' 2010

  • And there are so many unexpected steps, so many things to keep in mind with even the most mundane products: they must remember to smell each oyster after they open it and hold each pea-sized mandarin orange segment up to the light to check for seeds.

    The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011

  • Working quickly, cut butter into the flour with a pastry blender until mostly pea-sized pieces of butter remain a few larger pieces are okay; do not over-blend.

    Memorial Day Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Katherine Wheelock 2011

  • To make the dough, sift the flour and salt into a large bowl and blend in the butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until it resembles a coarse meal with pea-sized butter lumps.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • To make the dough, sift the flour and salt into a large bowl and blend in the butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until it resembles a coarse meal with pea-sized butter lumps.

    Chicken Empanadas with Chorizo and Olives 2009

  • Pulse until the mixture starts to come together and form little pea-sized crumbles.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • People who put Sarah Palin down are pea-sized minds and big sour grapes .... and anti women ....

    Second Palin book due in November 2010

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