Bread

Ride the Whopper Comet…

June 4, 2012 by Peabody · 13 Comments

First off congrats to #41 Lynn G for being the winner of my absent minded cookbook ordering. Please see the contact section of this blog and email me your address and get it out to you! Congrats. To those who are sad about not winning coming up next week (on the blog birthday) there will be some other opportunities. :) Also my first post is up over on Tablespoon. If you would like to show me some support over there that would be awesome. And for those who were wishing I was sharing my cocktail making skills of my youth you are in luck as pretty much every post over at Rock UR Party involves a cocktail of some sort. :D You know you love that. In other news while making this bread pudding I learned the valuable lesson of not putting whole Whoppers into the bowl when the whisk is at full speed. In good news I evented the Whopper comet…which could probably take an eye out. So if you don’t like someone invite them over and put Whoppers into your mixer when they are standing near … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bread, pudding/custards · Tagged With: Bread Pudding, chocolate, Malted Milk, Whopper

Can’t STRESS it enough…

May 5, 2012 by Peabody · 11 Comments

Today while watching some business leadership videos that the UW puts out, they were interviewing the former CEO of Starbucks. He said: “There Are No Stressful Situations ONLY Stressful Responses” I love that. Goes along with my life is 10% of what happens and 90% of how you react to it philosophy. Something we should all be working on to remember. Boozy Banana Bread 1 cup cake flour 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp. baking soda 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/3 cup butter, at room temperature 2 eggs, well-beaten 2/3 cup granulated sugar 1 ¼ cups mashed ripe bananas 3 TBSP bourbon 1/2 tsp. lemon juice 3/4 cup chocolate chips 3/4 cup chopped pecans Glaze: 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips 2 TBSP corn syrup 1 TBSP bourbon Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium-sized bowl, stir together flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In a large bowl, cream butter with an electric mixer (I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bread, breakfast treat · Tagged With: banana bread, Booze

Long week…

April 27, 2012 by Peabody · 20 Comments

Clearly you deserve a better post…but that won’t be today. :P It’s been a long week around here. People who are close to me know that when someone passes in my life I usually bake bread. Not sure why I just always have. Sadly one of our local hockey family, a guy I have played both with and against, passed away on Wednesday morning. He played a game of hockey and said he wasn’t feeling well but still went to his second game of hockey where he played a few shifts. Told everyone he didn’t feel great and was going home. And at 7am the next morning he had a heart attack and died. Life is short people, spend it with the ones you want to, don’t waste your time on anything that isn’t bringing you joy. I did manage to make something…these are kind of healthy muffins…well healthy for me. I was going to make a pretzel topping but never got around to it. Like I said, weird week. Peanut Butter White Chocolate Chip Muffins ½ cup vegetable oil 1 cup peanut butter (your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baked goods, Bread, breakfast treat, Muffin, peanut butter · Tagged With: bread, Fur Baby Friday, muffin, peanut butter

Third times a charm…

March 3, 2012 by Peabody · 7 Comments

Two things, first off a BIG thank you to any and all who donated this is my last post where it is mentioned for a year. I learned this week that while demographically speaking while I don’t have that many men (mostly ex-boyfriends) who read the blog, a large percentage of them donated to me. :) As well as college students which is a big deal as they are giving up pizza and beer money there. So thank you, thank you, thank you. Second, thanks for the encouragement with me and MDP. I can say that my favorite part about coming out so to speak is that I no longer have former students giving me advice such as “show some more boob Ms. G (my maiden name) that’s what works for me”. Though now we have moved onto “yeaaaa, get some Ms. G” so I’ll be honest in saying, not sure which one is worse. I’ll mull it over and let you know. We got random snow this week and that always makes me want to bake with yeast thanks to my mom always doing that when we were kids. Except it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: baked goods, Bread, breakfast treat · Tagged With: Baklava, Buns