I bet you were thinking I was going to miss this weeks Tuesday with Dorie. Almost did. Though it had nothing to do with procrastination. See, I bought the wrong kind of pumpkin. I went to grab the pumpkin puree, but instead I got the pumpkin pie puree. Ever have that happen to you? And I didn't want to throw it away, I just didn't know what I wanted to make with it. This weeks, Tuesday with Dorie choice was Crème Brulee (chosen by Mari of Mevrouw Cupcake), I figured that this would be my chance to use up that pumpkin. I of course did an inspired by so that I could give you a recipe, so I made crème caramel, which is in the same family as crème brulee. This is where the almost missing TWD came in. See I have to make this recipe 3 times to get it right. I am just not used to working with the canned pumpkin pie, it is runnier than just pumpkin puree, and already has some sugar in it. So the first batch was super runny. The second batch I didn't add sugar because I thought … [Read more...]
I was doing so good…
I was doing so good. Really I was. I hadn't even clicked on Amazon.com for awhile. And then like a fool I went on, and even more foolish, I looked at my recommendations. The evil geniuses at Amazon once again pulled me into the black hole that is the myriad of cookbooks I didn't know I needed...but of course now need. I broke down and ordered a few (bastards). They arrived and I did my initial run through. When I get a new cookbook I immediately go through it. First, if is a book with few photos, I go searching for those. Then I skim through looking at the titles of all the recipes. Then if I have time I will read the ones that sounded good. And when I have time I sit down and read it from cover to cover, just as if it were any book, not just a cookbook. The book I fell in love with this week is Baked. Baked is a bakeshop in Brooklyn that has a frontier theme...very odd, but I think it works for them. There are soooo many things I want/need to make from this cookbook, it's not even … [Read more...]
Rice, Rice, Baby….
There isn't much in the food world that I haven't at least tried, unless of course I am allergic (which rules out quite a few things). Yet there was one food item I had seen time and time again on people's blogs that I had never tried but always wanted to....rice pudding. I'm not even sure why I have never tried it. I mean it is a lot of people's go to ultimate comfort food, and I love me some comfort food. I was at the grocery store and I saw a container of Kozy Shack rice pudding and decided that enough was enough, I was going to break down and make some. I was however determined that it would be bland for some reason and so I felt the need to make it a sauce. I also searched for a recipe using arborio rice as it gives off a more creamy texture. When all was said and done I stood there looking at it, it's not all that pretty by itself, then again neither is bread pudding and I love that. I scooped my spoon in and into the mouth (cue the romance music). Yeah, I get it. Big time. … [Read more...]
If you’re happy and you know it….
I have a friend who is what I call a life sucker. Do you have one of these? You know the kind of person who would complain, even if they won the lottery. Nothing is ever good in their life (even when it totally is). The person that when you get done talking to them you feel like you need a nap because they sucked the very life out of you with their negativity. I am fortunate enough that this person lives in another state (I moved) so the life sucking has slowed down but it still makes me sad. When I was trying to point out the good things in her life to her last time we talked she said to me, “of course it is easy for you, you have a happy life”. Do I? I find it amusing for the fact that our lives are not that much different. Yet how I see things is very different. When LS ( Life Sucker) had to pay for health issues for her dog you thought the world was coming to an end. She feels about her dog how I do about mine so we both would spend a small mint to make sure they … [Read more...]
