Chicken Pot Pie The Laird bought some frozen pot pies and I thought to myself, I thought, “I can do that.” First step: Pot Pie pans. I bought the 4-inch aluminum ones because they only had three in stainless steel and I wanted four. I ran them through the dishwasher, first thing, to see ifContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XLVII”
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Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XLVI
Trifle I have a trifle dish that I’ve never used for trifle. I’ve made seven-layer salad in it twice in ten years. I decided it was time. It’s significantly more work than I expected. It took about three hours. I used the Oreo Cake white layer for the cake. The rest of the recipe wasContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XLVI”
Learning 2 Bake – From Scratch XLV
Pompion Pie This is my first Tasting History dish! I love the videos, but I hadn’t made anything until now. I’m not a big fan of the “measure each ingredient into its own little bowl” mise en place, but I do like the “get everything out of the cupboard to make sure nothing is missing”Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake – From Scratch XLV”
Chicken/Egg Problem
If it is digging up the dirt, how did it get on top of the dirt? I wasn’t watching, so I don’t know.
Beer Fest
Rapid City has one. 2023 was the sixth annual, even. It was great fun, even if I did only make it halfway through. Something to rectify next year. How do you know you’re old? When you say, “I wish I had a notebook to write down the ones I like,” then realize that you haveContinue reading “Beer Fest”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLIV
Cheesecake Both Brian and Erin (pardon the familiarity toward people I don’t know) have great cheesecake videos. I went with Brian’s because I’ve never made a cheesecake that is so deep/tall. Much to my surprise, it turned out great – although I haven’t tasted it, yet. Lessons learned: Blueberries (and/or raspberries) do not boil downContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLIV”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLIII
Deep Dish Pizza Don’t go grocery shopping while hungry. Does anyone not already know this? I watched Brian Lagerstrom’s Chicago Deep Dish Pizza (v 2) video the other day. Guess what I bought? To be fair, it was also in the 20s all day and using the oven seemed like a good idea. I alsoContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLIII”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch LXI 2
Biscuits The biscuit saga continues so I left the roman numeral the same. Because I’m me, all sorts of things changed. They were larger in diameter because I made them egg-ring size, not biscuit-cutter size, to make bacon, egg, and cheese biscuits. I decided to “go big” and hammer them with leavening. 120 g HungarianContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch LXI 2”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLII
Danish It’s pastry season and I’ve not made Danishes, yet. This recipe at Sugar, Salt, Magic looks good. It is filled with helpful tips, but the recipe, itself, is just: 226 g unsalted butter (2 sticks), coarsely grated and very cold390 g flour1 cup milk – cold2 1/4 tsp instant or active dry yeast (1Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch XLII”
Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch – XLI
Biscuits I made buttermilk biscuits with regular milk. Needless to say, they didn’t rise much. I dislike my biscuits, so I’m starting over. Here is an extremely simple biscuit recipe: 1 cup flour1/2 Tbl baking powder1/2 tsp salt3 Tbl butter1/3 cup milk They were also hockey pucks. The recipe is quartered, so there is roundingContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake – from Scratch – XLI”
Marked Up 