Cream

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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In the meantime…how about a tart!

October 22, 2010

So I was slaving away on brioche research the last week and I started writing up a post. Then I took a look at my pictures. Yes! I have a cache of pictures taken with my spanking new Nikon that look…meh. Especially the ones that I took of my “loaf” of brioche. I’m still trying [...]

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TWD ~ Chocolate Cream Tart

April 28, 2009

Shesh, has another week gone by already? Some weeks I’m not all that jazzed about the TWD selection, sometimes I’m in excitement mode, and then there are weeks where I’m neither jazzed nor excited. This week initially started out jazzed, then turned lukewarm. When I initially heard the title, “Chocolate Cream Tart” (selected by Kim [...]

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TWD ~ Berry Not-So-Surprised Cake

January 26, 2009

I had a great plan for this recipe. I haven’t filled you in on some of my AWESOME Christmas presents, but I wanted to use one of these great, vintage, copper-colored, mini pans my Mom ebayed for me. One of these days I’ll get around to taking some pics and showing you what great taste [...]

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