Mandarin Merrang Pie I need a pie, tonight, for a contest at the dance studio. The Laird happened to buy a bag of mandarin oranges, yesterday. I’ve done both lemon and lime, so why not? The lime was XXXX (should that have been XL?). Let’s see what I’ve learned in the last 30 attempts. First,Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXX”
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Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXX
Cinnamon Rolls Tonight’s potluck (potlach?) theme is “breakfast for dinner”. I asked “sheet-tray of bacon or cinnamon rolls?” Cinnamon rolls won the poll. I’ve had this bookmarked for ages: The recipe is not in the description. He gives it out as he goes, which makes mis en place annoying. Since I had to write itContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXX”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXIX
Plumble Pie Another Four and Twenty Blackbirds recipe for crochet group. Standard crust, plum filling, the same oat crumble on top as the Peach and Cream pie/tart. I have those little crocks due to Nina, one of my coworkers. The odd thing about that story is that I don’t remember why. I just remember thatContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXIX”
Online Speech Contest
The local Toastmaster’s online (i.e. webcam) speech contest is Monday. Last Wednesday, one of my competitors gave a practice run of her speech. It was very good and blew mine out of the water. I’ve thrown that out and I’m starting over. I like to watch YouTube cooking videos, but they’re all edited. I’m goingContinue reading “Online Speech Contest”
Mark & Max V
Placenta Stop giggling (or vomiting); this is Classical Latin so the “c”s are all hard (very similar to how the “a” in Ur-an-us is always short). It’s better than I expected. Sort of a giant sized baclava. On to the recipe… The internal layers (tracta) are a spelt and wheat mix. Max says to buyContinue reading “Mark & Max V”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXV
Ciabatta Having just returned from Rome (and finally over the airplane crud), I thought it would be nice to thank the friend who drove us to/from the airport with an Italian dinner. This requires ciabatta for the bread course. Need to make bread? Who ya gonna call? The Big Dog: Of course, it’s another oneContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXV”
Mark & Max – II
Tiger Nut Cake First, an administrative note: I’m skipping some of the recipes. I may or may not go back to them. The second in the book is Tuh’u (no, I don’t know what an apostrophe sounds like, either), which is a lamb dish. It’s rather difficult to find lamb in January, since they areContinue reading “Mark & Max – II”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXIII
PB&J Shortbread This was triple inspired: My “early out of the oven so it stays moist” peanut butter cookies reminded Kay of shortbread (because they collapsed). Ari wanted me to vet a recipe for shortbread cookies with icing before she went to all the work of making them; I have not seen the recipe, yet.Continue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXIII”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXII
Peanut Butter Cookie Perfection I consider this not only “learned” but “perfected”. I can’t imagine them getting any better. Third time is the charm. The first batch was the original recipe, which was tasty, but a bit dry. The second batch had less flour, which made them less dry (more moist sounds vaguely icky) butContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXII”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LX
Angel Food Comparison I was in the mood for baking on Sunday (it was gloomy and there were snow flurries). I didn’t find a cookie recipe in Grandma’s cookbook that caught my fancy, but I did find five angel food cake recipes. I had been wondering if angel food cake required that special pan. ItContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LX”
Marked Up 