Guess what I just got in the mail. My Good Cook Book Club enrollment shipment. I just joined and check out my booty!
{ 0 comments }
Posts tagged as:
Baking On A Budget
When it comes to making shopping trips for something specific Murphy’s Law is always in overdrive for me. If my purse strap just broke and I need a new one, I can go to every store in town and find nothing but candidates for the ugliest purse of all time award. Shoes, let’s just say that when I do find a pair that I like and actually fits I buy at least two. Clothes end up getting treated like Holy relics in my closet so they last as long as possible.
Despite Murphy’s predominant power over my shopping life, amazingly enough I went shopping the other day and actually found what I was looking for. I recently acquired Martha Stewart’s Cookies
{ 1 comment }
My kingdom for a … food processor/standing mixer??? I’d be hard pressed to make a decision on that one, if I had the money. Not to pick on the noble blender, but when it comes to performing tasks the right tool can make all the difference. I am a baker on a budget. My budget being virtually nonexistent, I actually made my first pie crust with the attachments from my hand mixer. While getting my MacGyver on can be a thrill, sometimes it’s just a plain drag.
For example, when the Plum Tart with Walnut Cream recipe called for walnuts to be ground into a “coarse powder” I had to entrust this task to my poor, overworked blender. As anyone who’s ever tried it can tell you, chopping nuts into a powder regardless of how coarse it might be isn’t easy to do with a blender. Nuts have a habit of becoming more like a paste on the bottom and large-ish chunks on the top. So what really was a simple recipe that could have been whipped up in a matter of minutes in a properly equipped kitchen, ended up taking me over an hour(s?). Click to continue…
{ 2 comments }
