From where do you obtain the recipes you prepare? Mostly from cookbooks. I enjoy going to a restaurant and then trying to come home and recreate what I had. I find recipes from other people's blogs as well as from websites. I also subscribe to Bon Appetit and have since I was in college(12 years now...yikes!) How often do you cook a new recipe? It depends. My husband is such a picky eater. I try to do new recipes if we are going over to someone's house or if I go to Book Club. Where do you store your favourite recipes? My cookbooks are in a cabinet just for them. My magazines have yet to be organized and it is my big project for July. I also have a lot of recipes in a file on the computer. How large is your recipe pile? Is it organized? If so, how? My cookbooks are very organized and are arragned by baking, entertaining, everyday meals, fancy don't make that often(like The French Laundry), fruits, veggies and other. What is the oldest recipe in your “to … [Read more...]
No Comparison
Growing up I don't ever remember eating anyone elses baking except my mothers. She baked for all the neighbors. So when I would go over and play with the neighbor kids I was either eating my own mother's cookies or store bought ones. So I really had no comparison. So I went off to college and quickly choose banana bread one morning for breakfast. It tasted nothing like my mother's and I chalked it up to just being bad cafeteria food. We had many local cafe's and so one time while on a coffee run I bought a slice of banana bread. Nope, didn't taste like hers. I repeated this process many times until I finally broke down and told my mom that no one makes banana bread like her. She just smiled and said that is because I make mine with Graham flour. What the heck was that I thought. My mom explained that it was a wheat flour that she could not actually find in Arizona so my aunt would have to send it to her(which is why we didn't get banana bread all that often). You can find it quite … [Read more...]
Nice reminders
Reading other people's food blogs is one of my favorite past times. Not only for the obvious reasons of oogling good food but it always reminds me of recipes I already had and forgot about or cookbooks that have collected a bit too much dust on the shelf. I swear that the The Candian Baker has all of my cookbooks. But one cookbook I do not have is All the Best Muffins and Quick Breads by Joie Warner. She had made a chocolate muffin that looked yummy and so I thought I would give them I try. I had a few changes to mine. I only had a half a cup of buttermilk left so the other half was cream. I did add 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips and I baked them at 350F as the Canadian Baker suggested. Also be warned, this batter(or at least mine) was like tar...thick and sticky and kind of a pain to get into the muffin tins. Chocolate Intensity Muffins 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 1/4 cups sugar 1 tbsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp … [Read more...]
Going Bananas
There is something about going to Costco that makes me go a little bananas. I have to full intent of just going in and getting a few things and then next thing you know....a cart full of crap...but discounted crap. Let us take my last impulse buy...bananas. Now, there is no way I can eat 4 pounds of bananas. I don't like freezing them, they are not the same to me...but I can not pass up 4 pound of bananas for $1.30...I pay more than that for 3 bananas at the grocery store. So as they started to get black I had to figure out what to do with them. I didn't want banana nut muffins and we did have banana cake at our wedding, so I thought I would give that a try. This is nothing like our cake at our wedding, but I wasn't going for that. I made a simple cream cheese frosting to go on top of it. It made for a very moist cake. Oh and I used butter instead of shortening. Banana Cake presented by The Olde Square Inn Ingredients: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking … [Read more...]
