I have a gift. A gift for killing food scales. Not sure why I have this gift, but I am out 5 food scales in the last 3 years alone. Now a days most things are written in cups and tsp, etc and so I held off on buying a food scale this time around. But when I saw that we were making potato bread, and that I need ounces of potato I browsed Amazon.com and found one. This time around UPS helped me out and my food scale came to me mutilated and in pieces. Well crap I thought. I was already to make potato bread and even planned my meal to include it. So I decided I would make it anyway. What was my solution. Well, I stood on my scale holding an empty bowl. I have one of those scales that tells you not only weight, but body fat(oh the horror!), how much water is in your body and so on. So after I weighed myself I went and added some mashed up potato to the bowl and re-weighed myself...till I “gained” a pound. :) It worked. So I sent back my food scale and didn't get another one … [Read more...]
If your reading this….
If you are reading just this tiny blurb we did not get cable/internet hooked up. So I went ahead and did this short little write up. This time around, Mary of Alpineberry, challenged the Daring Bakers to make what is called a Bostini Cream Pie. Similar to the Boston Cream Pie except this one has an orange chiffon cake(which is quite tasty I might add), a custard base and chocolate sauce on top. I chose to make mine using disposable star molds(while I was going through the cleaning out mode). I was able to unmold mine because the molds were made of foil and I could just peel away. Most people made them in glass containers since it really wasn't that moldable. I'm not the biggest fan of pastry cream so I would have preferred less of that and more of cake. But all in all it made for a good dessert. Bostini Cream Pie (from Donna Scala & Kurtis Baguley of Bistro Don Giovanni and Scala's Bistro) Makes 8 generous servings INGREDIENTS: Custard 3/4 cup whole milk 2 3/4 … [Read more...]
Case of the missing bun….
Men. Sometimes they just aren't thinking. Case in point, the Daring Bakers challenge. This time around Marce from Pip in the City chose have us make cinnamon rolls. My husband was very excited about this. His is a pretty picky guy, but he loves him some cinnamon rolls. We were given the freedom to use different spices but nothing was said about nuts and fruit. Well, we like both nuts and raisins in our rolls. So when I made them I made all raisin and nut ones, except for one. I went to bed and when I woke up the ONE plain cinnamon roll was gone. I asked my husband if he ate it(of course he did unless we had some cinnamon roll thief) and he said yes. I asked him WHY he ate the plain one when I made raisin pecan ones. His answer was they all looked the same. Grrrr. So needless to say, I am the rebel Daring Baker this month and did not follow the rules...at least not in my photos. This was an excellent recipe and the dough is truly outstanding....and I hardly say that about a Daring … [Read more...]
“Milk” it for all it’s worth…
The end of the month is upon us(YAY!!! here comes Fall) and that can only mean one thing...Daring Bakers Challenge. We have returned to the land of chocolate...milk chocolate to be exact. Now milk chocolate is something I rarely bake with, why I have no idea. I mean I love to eat milk chocolate and yet I never seem to put it into anything I bake. I should probably fix that. And well this tart is a good start....a milk chocolate caramel tart to be exact. This was a fairly simple tart with my only problem being that my caramel did not set up all that well. I was pretty solid when first taken out of the fridge but if it sat around(like it did for the photos) it began to ooze. Though, is there really anything wrong with oozing caramel...I think not! Many other Daring Bakers had problems rolling out the dough, but apparently I lucked out in that department has no issues there. This is one sweet tart, and you know if I am saying it is sweet, then it is sweet! It is very similar to eating a … [Read more...]
