So I had a rather disappointing week this last week. I discovered that a non food blogger has been ripping my site off and posting my blog word for word(picture for picture) on their site. Now, they are not claiming it as their own but copying word for word is pretty much blatant stealing....especially because it is eating my bandwidth. Everyone in the food blogging community has been great about this so I am not talking about you. I love when places like Slashfood feature my food porn....but they don't copy my post.....they LINK to it. Link away I say. But don't be so lame as to even steal my post about saying I wont be in town for a couple of days....because that is just sad. We've contacted the thief and let them know that we find it unacceptable and I had to add an outline to my blog under usage. Unfortunately if it continues my husband and I have discussed that we will go further with the matter in the legal sense. I hope nothing like this is happening to any of your … [Read more...]
Mi Amour
I thought long and hard about when my love affair with cheesecake started and more like a typical male(sorry guys :) ) I could not remember our "anniversary" of the first time we met. My mother didn't make cheesecakes at home(not sure why... she still doesn't) and so I only ever got it going out. I'm sure my first experience involved the no-bake Jello cheesecake version that was so popular when I was a kid. But I suspect that I fell in love at a restaurant taking a bite off my mother's plate. No doubt it was New York cheesecake with the then obligatory blob of cherries on top...for years this is the only way I thought it could be offered. Fresh from all my pastry learning, I worked part time(I was a full time teacher) at a little bakery that sadly no longer exist(Phoenix is over run by commercialism now). I decided that I wanted to make the cheesecakes(among other things). Now you are probably thinking that I chose that so I could eat all the cheesecake I wanted....WRONG. I took … [Read more...]
I lived….I lied.
So I know I said that I would be making Walnut and Huckleberry jam cookies...well I lied. I had every intention of doing so until I opened the jar of jam that I had recieved. It looked a little more chunky than what I wanted to deal with for a sandwich cookie and when I put it in my mouth to taste test it was pretty gritty. I did however(so as not to be a complete liar) make one for a photo. On a positive note, I was not killed in the middle of the night by angry and rejected sugar cookie dough, nor did I dream of it either. I was at my friend's housewarming the other day and her dad came with a big box of hazelnuts. I tried to convince her to give me some of them, but she did not like that idea :( (I really must work on my begging). Which made me sad since the second I saw the box I thought, oh, I want Linzer cookies. Since I did not go home with hazelnuts that night I needed to pick something else. Traditionally linzers are made with either almonds or hazelnuts...two nuts … [Read more...]
RIP….death to my everlasting cookie dough
If you read my blog and don't just look at the pictures(all though feel free just to do that....but then of course you wouldn't be reading this) you know that I made a batch of ever multiplying sugar cookie dough. I made this sour cream-apple tart a couple of days ago in hopes of putting a dent into my cookie dough. Dent it I did not, and it just came back stronger and more determined to form a coup and take over the fridge. So today I had to make the decision. Throw the dough away or freeze the remaining. There just isn't enough rental property in my freezer for the cookie dough to occupy and then later on overthrow. So out it went. I imagine I will have nightmares of the cookie dough getting larger and larger until it becomes a 3 foot blob rising like a phoenix out of the dumpster and coming to suffocate me with all it's buttery goodness in the middle of the night. But it had to be done. Now the recipe I give is the original one that I made oh so long ago. So if you are going to … [Read more...]
