Crust vs Crust This one doesn’t get a number because it’s analysis, not baking. I posted my pie crust recipe in the Chess Pie post. The “new” recipe is from The Four & Twenty Blackbird’s Pie Book, which is a present from the crochet group. Considering that they are a well-known bakery, it seems unlikelyContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch”
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Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LI
Coconut Cream Pie This pie served two purposes: Another test of the new crust recipe and getting rid of leftover coconut. Well, three purposes, I suppose: It also got eaten. The first crust attempt was for the Malted Chocolate Pecan Pie. It was not good. For this attempt, I used shredded rather than cubed butter,Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LI”
Building a Castle Wall
The street in front of my house has been under construction since last summer. The street, itself, has been rebuilt. They’re now rebuilding the retaining walls on the far side. (On this side, the houses are the retaining walls; most of them are single-story fronts with walk-out basements in the back.) The old retaining wallsContinue reading “Building a Castle Wall”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – L
Malted Chocolate Pecan Pie It snowed today. I don’t mind snow, but when it wasn’t snowing, it was cloudy and gloomy. On a Sunday, that says “bake something”. I’m not sure what it means that the crochet group gave me a pie cookbook. It could be positive, in that they would like more pies. ItContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – L”
Swedish Meatballs
This is a “before I make it” post because I want to extract the recipe from the video and make sure I have everything. As long as I need to write it down, I may as well write it down here. Thankfully, it’s there in the description for my copy/pasting convenience. Swedish MeatballsFrom: Sip AndContinue reading “Swedish Meatballs”
Irish Potato Candy
It’s neither Irish nor Potato. I stumbled across this recipe years ago. For whatever reason, there has been a photocopy of some newspaper/magazine recipe for it in my recipe folder (a physical folder, not a computer folder). I finally threw it out a few months back. Then I’m asked to bring something potato-y to aContinue reading “Irish Potato Candy”
Leftovers
The Chess Pie resulted in much leftover fondant. What does one do with extra fondant? Why make not-Oreos, of course. I swear I have a blog post about that, already, but I don’t see it now and I’m supposed to be working, so this needs to be fast. A friend is having a birthday partyContinue reading “Leftovers”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch XLIX
Chess Pie I asked the crochet group what sort of pie they wanted for Pi Day. They said “chess”. The picture is the ingredients for the chess part. I used the recipe from The Pioneer Woman for the “chess” part. I used my pie crust recipe. Because I want a copy/paste version with multiple sizesContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch XLIX”
Road 2 Destruction
We went to the Monster Truck thing last Saturday. I’m not sure how I feel about it. The pit pass was neat. I’ve never seen a monster truck up close. They’re not just lifted trucks. The engine is in the middle and the axels are insane. For example, torso-sized (to avoid the metric system) differentials.Continue reading “Road 2 Destruction”
Signal/Noise Ratio Record?
How can such a short article have so much wrong with it?!?! About the only thing clear is what started it all: “a group of middle school students were accused of using artificial intelligence to create nude images of their classmates.” and “the fake images contained students’ faces superimposed onto nude bodies.” The rest ofContinue reading “Signal/Noise Ratio Record?”
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