Sour Cream Apple Souffle Cake Cockaigne The title and subtitle are both a bit long – it’s not my fault. Roman numerals just do that and the recipe title is from The Joy of Cooking. Yes, it’s back, finally. No, I didn’t find it a box in the garage. The Laird saw it in aContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXXXII”
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Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXXI
Coconut Cream Pie First, the final result of LXX.V: Still excellent filling; much more stable merrang, although not quite dry; caramelized and tough crust. The crust issue turned out to be simple: I used two tablespoons of sugar instead of two teaspoons of sugar. This was immediately obvious when I started comparing crust recipes toContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXXI”
Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXX.V
Navel Merrang Pie The Mandarin Merrang Pie had three problems: Soggy crust, meh filling, and sticky merrang. Since today is crochet group day, I got up early to make another attempt. To address the problems: Par bake the crust until golden brown, use navel oranges instead of mandarins, and bake it longer to dry outContinue reading “Learning 2 Bake from Scratch – LXX.V”
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”
Bacon Floodies
I’d never heard of them, but the YouTube algorithm thought I would be interested. It was correct. These are easy enough that I didn’t even use the recipe. I made enough for two. The second one is a bit overly toasted on the bottom (i.e. burned) because I was too busy eating the first oneContinue reading “Bacon Floodies”
Cacio e Pepe
A recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. I thought it would make a good first pasta course for the Italian dinner I will be cooking (this coming Saturday). It’s supposedly difficult to get the cheese sauce right. Following the instructions in Cook’s Illustrated, it was not. It’s very simple: Pasta with Pecorino Romano cheese and black pepper.Continue reading “Cacio e Pepe”
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”
Marked Up 