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Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
Doughnut holes becuase you are eating a hole.... if that makes sense.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
The first time I had tapas there was to many to remember, but I do remember the experience! So many flavors! So many foods and wines to try. That is the best way to eat!
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Since I was first introduced to chicken nuggets in my first happy meal - I've never been able to stay away from them
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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
a classmate at school using baking soda rather than cornstarch in pastry cream
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
Doughnut holes becuase you are eating a hole.... if that makes sense.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
The first time I had tapas there was to many to remember, but I do remember the experience! So many flavors! So many foods and wines to try. That is the best way to eat!
Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Baron VonFunburger's Haunted Castle Cavalcade
Since I was first introduced to chicken nuggets in my first happy meal - I've never been able to stay away from them
Cook the Book: 'Seven Fires'
Without a doubt my favorite South American dish is the strong flavored Brasilerio feijoada
Sorbet Recipe - without an ice cream maker!
@cybercita Thats exactly what I am hoping others will do. As I said, this is a just a guideline of a technique for one to use at home with the best fruits they can find.
@orchidgirl that is a brilliant color on your frozen dessert, but I myself would consider it a granita.
Sorbet Recipe - without an ice cream maker!
@thepirateking you don't need the banana. It is there to help to create a creamy texture. You can certainly follow the procedure without the bananas. Another idea would be to use a little yogurt. This is basically a guideline of a technique that you can use with whatever fruits you can find that are above par.
Sorbet Recipe - without an ice cream maker!
In that case many of us pastry chefs who use pacojets are not truly making sorbet.
This technique was created in hopes of making a full flavored fresh fruit frozen dessert at home.
Cook the Book: 'Modern Spice'
Indian food becuase the way spices are blended within that cuisine is amazing!
Cook the Book: 'Rustic Fruit Desserts'
It is the perfect time right now for strawberry shortcake. Ofcourse with FRESH whipped cream on a BISCUIT!
Cook the Book: Eugenia Bone's 'Well-Preserved'
I'd love to do apricots. They never stay at their peak long enough for me and I'd love them further into the year!
Cook the Book: 'Tacos'
After a night spent eating a tasting menu and drinking at the bar at a famous NYC restaurant - chicken tacos at 5 am are very memorable.
Cook the Book: 'On the Line'
To me my favorite way to eat seafood always sashimi! This is the only way to enjoy is true flavor. Isn't flavor what it is all about?
Cook the Book: The Essence of Chocolate
A very simple warm chocolate cake with fresh raspberries and whipped cream that was made for me by my ex girlfriend a few Valentines Days ago. She never spends time in the kitchen but on this day she spent a good 2 hours making it for me and it was worth the wait.
Cook the Book: 'Osteria'
Any kind of piping hot soup and warm buttered bread!!!
Cook the Book: 'Baking Unplugged'
Watching Pastry Cream boil all over the stove becuase baking soda was mistaken for cornstarch!!!!!
Cook the Book: 'The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook'
Yay for hummus!!!!!!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
The Cheddar from Grafton Village Cheese.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
The first piece of pork belly I ever had last year
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Boneless Heritage Ham
Simply brie and an over easy egg on sourdough is perfect!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage
Blue Ribbon in Arlington, MA
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
A proper pain au chocolate!!!!
Cook the Book: Jamie at Home
white bean soup with an over easy egg on top and some toast
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Ribeye is my true favorite!
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box
Giving up being a strict vegetarian becuase I missed pork. The first thing I ate when I stopped was an amazing piece of pork belly!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
i completely botched a pineapple upside down cake. too much butter and too much pineapple led to a buttery pineapple mess... too bad cause i know its a good recipe.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
I don't bake, baking scares me. One time in high school I decided to overcome this fear and suprise my mother with a pan of brownies. I hate nuts in my desserts, but she loves them so I figured I'd take one for the team and throw in the bag of walnut pieces I found in the back of the pantry. Well, she takes one bite and makes this face because apparently the nuts were rotten and the whole pan of brownies was ruined. I still don't trust nuts in baked goods and haven't thought twice about baking something since then.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
My most recent baking mistake: Making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies and forgetting the oatmeal. It took an embarrassingly long time to figure out what was missing!
Not baking, per say, but the olive oil story reminded me of a time when I tried to make Annie's mac and cheese without butter. I substituted EVOO instead thinking it would taste the same (stupid). It was hands down the most disgusting pasta I've ever had.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Cakes and dogs--never a good combination. How many of us have left the celebratory creation just a tad too close to the edge of the counter, only to come home from the big meal out, mouths set for sugar, to discover that fido has once again proven his real reason for being, i.e., to grab all the available food whenever you're not looking?
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
French Bread. It never rose, it smelled weird and ended up baking into a puddle. Ate it anyway.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Anything I bake is probably a disaster, but that I why I let my wife do all the baking.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
We ordered a store-bought cake when my mom received her masters degree in writing. As we were putting the candles on, we realized it read "Congrulations!". We decided the misspelling was highly appropriate for the celebration...
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
I have given up on baking. My last disaster was a loaf of rock solid rye bread with a gooey center. I can't dance either.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
I was making a batch of biscotti, and underbaked the dough the first time. So after it came out of the second bake...I had stale, rock-hard biscotti. stale, rock-hard INEDIBLE biscotti. I haven't tried attempting to make them again.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
I was so proud, as a teenager, to make my first unassisted loaf of bread... and discovered what happens when you leave out the salt. You just can't add it once it's baked...
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
After our first child was born my wife made me a birthday cake. She left the completed cake on the kitchen counter and went to tend to our barely 2 week old daughter.
Upon returning to the kitchen she saw the remains of the cake being devoured by our 1.5 year old Basset Hound.
My wife sat down and cried, then proceeded to make another cake.
It was a horrible happening but a memory we always share.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
A friend and I worked our way through Martha Stewart's peach and creme fraiche pie (it's delicious: http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/peach-and-creme-fraiche-pie?), but when the pies were done baking, my friend accidentally flipped it upside down and it landed, splat, face first in the bottom of the oven! Good thing we made 2.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
making a vegetable oil pie crust
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Now everytime I'm in the supermarket, I look for cakewrecks. It's amazing how many are out there!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Using olive oil in a brownie recipe. Definitely not a good thing.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
The cobbler topping of my apple cobbler wasn't getting browned, but the apples were bubbling and good to go. I was impatient so I turned on the broiler. But then left it in there for just too long. Totally burned the topping.
At least the apple was still good when I scraped off the topping.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
My friend and i were making chocolate cupcakes and right when i was about to put the pan into the oven, i tripped and i got chocolate cake batter all over me and the oven. So we had half a batch of cupcakes and after we frosted them, and put them all in a nice container, they all fell over and we had a big chocolate frosting/cupcake glob in the container
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Haha, easy -- three weeks ago, I put too much (by a LOT) Sambuca into an otherwise lovely pear cake and ended up with an inedible, chokingly-alcoholic brick; the other day, I somehow wrecked beyond repair my snickerdoodles and ended up with one paper thin layer of snickerdoodle that I cut into slices. At least those were still tasty.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Our family's classic cake wreck story: my brother's graduation cake was ordered from a bakery that was also hired to create our wedding cake. The graduation cake arrived and we tried and tried to cut through it, but we kept hitting something hard. Trying not to tear the cake up, we carefully cut away cake to find a LARGE serrated knife had been left in the raspberry filling layer of the cake. No discount was given for that error, but my Mom did get to keep the knife as a souvenir!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
intricate butter icing and hot, humid weather do NOT go together. i spent 2 hours icing spongebob and dora on my 2 year old cousin's birthday cake. by the time i arrived and unveiled my creation it looked more like a square sun with a purple, pink, light brown blob. at least it tasted alright.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
....a quick cake need....to find I was half a cup short of flour with everything else ready to go
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
no, baking powder and baking soda are not interchangable. doh!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
all i'm saying is that salt does not equal sugar in a cake recipe
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
I once made pumpkin bread with my cous and was reading out the recipe out to her step by step, but when I got to the "mix dry ingredients" part, I totally forgot to tell her to add the baking powder. The result? A lifeless piece of pumpkin-y poo.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Cake Wrecks'
Still no idea what went wrong, but I had a pound cake that was heaving and boiling and overflowing the pan.
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a classmate at school using baking soda rather than cornstarch in pastry cream