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”
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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”
Snacklebox
The Laird showed me a meme about charcuterie being dead and a snacklebox being the new hot thing. Interestingly enough, not much later, I was asked to bring a charcuterie board to a party. What happened next should be obvious. Fleet Farm has a very large tackle selection. The tackle-box choices are much more limited,Continue reading “Snacklebox”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch
Павлова I don’t often do “cute”, but sometimes I can’t resist. These are amazing! The texture and the taste are both excellent. There will be more Pavlovas in my future. I’d never even heard of it. I stumbled across the recipe while searching for “why is my meringue collapsing?”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XXXX
Lime Merrang I had two goals: A crispier crust and non-collapsing merrang (I’m starting a trend, not misspelling). The plan was to use the leftover crust dough from the Lemon Merrang, but it was already dry and dried out even more in the refrigerator. I made a new 2/3 batch of crust. Yay, metric system!Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XXXX”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XXXIX
Lemon Meringue Pie I don’t know why The Laird wanted pie, let alone lemon meringue, as his birthday cake, but he did. I liked the tone of the Sally’s Baking Addiction recipe, so that’s what I used for the filling. I used my pie crust recipe, which needs just a touch more water for theContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – XXXIX”
Marked Up 