October 2008

TWD ~ Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes

October 28, 2008

Here I thought, finally a recipe I’m really looking forward to! I should have known that this week would end up being a let down. Yep, this was a New Year’s Eve recipe. I’m not sure if any of you have experienced this. What happens is you get a recipe built up in your mind [...]

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Recipe Round-Up – Fresh from the web!

October 25, 2008

I had this idea where I’d try and highlight recipes that have caught my eye over the week and “Recipe Round-Up” was born. The original idea was to post this on Fridays, but I wasn’t able to get to it yesterday. Bringing this all together has been a larger task than I expected, but I’ve [...]

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It’s raining men! Er, I mean cookbooks!

October 23, 2008

Guess what I just got in the mail. My Good Cook Book Club enrollment shipment. I just joined and check out my booty!

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TWD ~ Pumpkin Muffins

October 21, 2008

It’s Tuesday again and we have another recipe that I probably would have never made on my own. I’m not sure if anyone else has this type of issue. I’ve noticed that when it comes to certain ingredients it’s hard for me to think outside the box. Apple = Pie. Raisins = Babka or Oatmeal [...]

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Baker’s Joy… Truly a gift from the Heavens

October 21, 2008

“Generously butter pan and dust with flour.” You’ve all heard it before. The same required instructions that are supposed to magically render *insert baking item here* from pan without stickage. And yet though it promises much, it delivers little. It never fails that when I’ve tried the butter and flour method of pan preparation I [...]

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Brown Butter Madeleines…

October 16, 2008

Aren’t they pretty? Madeleines have to be one of, if not the prettiest cookies out there (although, that seems to be a topic of heated debate). So I’ve been bitten by the Madeleine bug. I have to tell you though, I think about 90% of my inclination to make dozens of them is just to [...]

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My first Tuesday with Dorie!

October 15, 2008

*Squee* Sorry, I was really excited to become part of this group. So this Tuesday was the Lenox Almond Biscotti. Truth be told, I’ve never been a big fan of biscotti. My mouth always felt like a bunch of shrapnel ripped through it after I ate one. I was pleasantly surprised with this recipe because [...]

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I think I burned my butter… Secrets of brown butter revealed

October 14, 2008

Here we go again. I wonder if I will ever be able to bake something without having a step go horribly wrong or dropping something on the floor. Yesterday I was trying to make those Brown Butter Madeleines I mentioned in my other post. I read through the directions at least twice. I got all [...]

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Eau De Powdered Sugar…

October 12, 2008

No, I’m not making a perfume recommendation here. Unfortunately when I was making the Orange-Cardamom Madeleines the other day I became aware of the fact that the large tub full of confectioners sugar I have has a perfume aftertaste. I wish I had something more concrete to tell everyone, but this is all I got [...]

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A French baker and a Polish King walk into a bar…

October 8, 2008

Stop me if you’ve heard this one… But seriously, according to one tale a French baker and a Polish King would collaborate in bringing to the world one of the most beloved French confections … the Madeleine. There’s as many theories about the origins of the Madeleine as the origins of the Universe, though not [...]

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