Ingredients

Expose yourself to a little culture with crème fraîche!

October 29, 2010

What was intended to be a short post with an even shorter recipe has exploded into a mountain of crème. Who knew that something as mundane as dairy could trigger such heated arguments. Debate over pasteurized dairy is near the boiling point, pardon the pun. I discovered that and more in my search for the [...]

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Special Announcement! Penzeys Fall Spices Giveaway!

November 22, 2009

I mentioned I was trying to think of ways to make my blog more interesting, and I thought, “Free goodies!” This morsel of brilliance came to me even before reading Predictably Irrational, which speaks of our irrational tendencies to the “Free!”. Not that I’m expecting a sect of Sugared Ellipses worshipers to pop up or [...]

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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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