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Cook the Book: The Serious Eats Chocolate Lover's Library
Depends on amount of time available: Rose Levy's Domingo chocolate cake is absolutely wonderful (Cake Bible). If no time to bake & am anywhere near a Neiman Marcus, then get their espresso chocolate cookies. They are closer to a fudgy brownie than a cookie & are lethal when slightly warmed & paired w/ a cappuccino. Yum. :)
Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'
steel cut oats (usu at b-fast), hulled barley mixed w/ lentils added to salad, seven-grain flour mix (from King Arthur) in my bread (w/ aid of the mini Zojirushi - no time to bake manually anymore)
Cook the Book: Sweet Potato Gratin with Onions and Sage
Stand-by quickie lunch or supper: 1/3c edamame, 1/2c green peas (defrost in advance or just nuke them until warm), 2 eggs. Put all parts into a buttered (or oiled) shallow baking dish, season to taste & bake @ 325 until desired degree of doneness. Approx. 12-13' will get you solid whites w/ warm but liquid yolks. Can be done stove-top, but this way the cooking vessel is also the serving dish - min clean-up is a wonderful thing. :)
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
There may be others that I've blanked out, but on one occasion was chatting on the phone while assembling a bread dough & left the salt out - the clean up of the runaway rising dough took quite some time & effort. Since then have made sure to be off the phone until after am certain that all ingredients for a given recipe are correctly measured & incorporated. :)
Cook the Book: The Serious Eats Chocolate Lover's Library
Depends on amount of time available: Rose Levy's Domingo chocolate cake is absolutely wonderful (Cake Bible). If no time to bake & am anywhere near a Neiman Marcus, then get their espresso chocolate cookies. They are closer to a fudgy brownie than a cookie & are lethal when slightly warmed & paired w/ a cappuccino. Yum. :)
Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'
steel cut oats (usu at b-fast), hulled barley mixed w/ lentils added to salad, seven-grain flour mix (from King Arthur) in my bread (w/ aid of the mini Zojirushi - no time to bake manually anymore)
Cook the Book: Sweet Potato Gratin with Onions and Sage
Stand-by quickie lunch or supper: 1/3c edamame, 1/2c green peas (defrost in advance or just nuke them until warm), 2 eggs. Put all parts into a buttered (or oiled) shallow baking dish, season to taste & bake @ 325 until desired degree of doneness. Approx. 12-13' will get you solid whites w/ warm but liquid yolks. Can be done stove-top, but this way the cooking vessel is also the serving dish - min clean-up is a wonderful thing. :)
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'The Elements of Cooking'
A basic important element is using fresh ingredients - no amount of seasoning or technique can compensate for ingredients that are past their prime.
Dinner Tonight: Spaghetti Squash With Butter
Have made spaghetti squash many times & it's a bit simpler if you scoop out the seeds before you cook the thing. Can also speed up the process if use the microwave, though the flavor is a tad more watery that way. Split in half, scoop out the seeds, season w/ salt/herbs & brush w/ oil. Then put upside down on a micro-safe plate (keeps the microwave cleaner) & zap for ~20 min (depends on your microwave & size of the squash).
Cook the Book: 'Pure Dessert'
Love Medrich's books - have bought & used them all, but my favorite dessert to make is still Domingo - a chocolate cake recipe from Rose Levy's The Cake Bible. It's even impressed some culinary pros at dinner parties. :)
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Every time I bake it's a disaster :)
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was making cinnamon buns.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking disaster was my sons first birthday cake that I tried to bake and I forgot the eggs... lol it was horrible flat gummy horrible! Thank you so much for the chance to win!
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I like to try different candy recipes during the Christmas Holidays, so a few years ago, I found a recipe for homemade cherry chocolates. They were easy to make and tasted great, so I made a lot of them, for family and friends. Now, every Christmas they all want more of them, lol, which is fine, with me, they are easy to make and you can make them early in the season. They improve with age.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
my biggest success was making cream cheese pound cake it came out so perfect that its a request every year
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Biggest success is when I make my Candy Bar Cheeskcake. Always turns out perfect. I have never had any horrifyingly bad experiences. So far, so good (knock on wood).
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
Let's just say that you cannot switch Baking Soda and Baking Powder in and out...you must use what the recipe calls for...*bleck*
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was the Baed Alaska I baked for my husband's second anniversary.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success is my amazingly awesome Christmas dinners each and every year! I fix all of the traditional favorites and try 5 or 6 new recipes I have selected during the year for something special.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
baking mix and flour are not the same thing. the hockey pucks disguised as muffins that came out of my oven are proof of that.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success would probably be pound cake and blondies as people always seem to love them. I don't have a big disaster story as I check and double check because I do worry about that. I did make a Scooby Doo cake once though that was adorable and tasty but a pain to decorate, I had never attempted that before.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success was when I took a cake decorating class and made my daughter a birthday cake with a birds nest and a little bird. I think it turned out quite well.
Then there was the time I tried my luck at making roses on another cake and that didn't turn out to well.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
one time I was baking a quiche in the oven and it overflowed all over my oven ...Thats was not an easy mess to clean! I was so upset with myself, that I've never tried that recipe again.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest disaster is when I forget about what I am baki8ng and burn it. It happens about once every 3 months. My biggest success is my cakes. I have become really good at baking cakes and everyone seems to love them.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I have a disaster about once a week whenever I end up burning something.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest downfall was my first attempt at baked beans, as a novice cook years ago: double the recipe and I must have doubled the time--results were hard, dry, and so stuck to the dish that rather than try to remove it I actually threw out the baking dish. And I was poor and never threw anything out, but this was BAD.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
The first time a made cookies in my apartment I used the broiler pan because I did not have a cookie sheet and I remembered my mom using some kind of cooking paper(yes I know now its parchment) I used wax. the wax melted and I tried scrapping it off. There were big black burnt stipes on the cookies. I still brought them in to work for our class bake sell. They sold like hot cakes. All the kids thought it was chocolate stipes.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I recently made my first ever yeast coffee cake, and it turned out heavenly!
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I found a great recipe for frosted sugar cookies and made them brought them to work. Everyone thought the were from a professional bakery they turned out so well!
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
i found a recipe in an old best desserts cookbook for my daughter's graduation party. I was so stressed out! The cinnamon rolls I made were compared to professional ones. It was certainly a miracle!
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I found my go-to dessert that is quick and perfect. I make a key lime pie (only 4 ingredients) and sometimes I layer the bottom of the shell with frozen blueberries or raspberries (they must be frozen so they held their shape while the pie bakes) before I pour themizture on top.
A quick homemade whipped cream and everyone is thrilled.
Nycole K
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
I've had a few disasters. Most of them involve forgetting whether or not I put in an ingredient or how much I put in. Lots of flat cakes.
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Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest success was the first Thanksgiving I held at my house. I made yeast rolls from scratch and they were AWESOME! but also A LOT of work. I have had several requests to make them again but I haven't done it yet.
Cook the Book: 'The Modern Baker'
My biggest baking success is the same recipe as my saddest failure. As a teen I found a brioche recipe that you made teddy bears with and I handed them out for Xmas presents. They were delicious! The next time I made the brioche it was horrible. Usually when I make it it turns out perfect but when my baking falls flat I am usually clueless what went wrong.
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There may be others that I've blanked out, but on one occasion was chatting on the phone while assembling a bread dough & left the salt out - the clean up of the runaway rising dough took quite some time & effort. Since then have made sure to be off the phone until after am certain that all ingredients for a given recipe are correctly measured & incorporated. :)