Archive for June, 2009
PPCB Ice Cream
PPCB Ice Cream or Pecan Praline Caramel Brownie Ice Cream. A delicious mouthful…. Ice cream is my favorite dessert, but most of the times I make it at home it is by accident. This particular ice cream happened because of a mysteriously underdone pan of brownies, underdone to the point in which one could call [...]
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Bakewell Tart
The British have a way of naming food that hide any clues of what it they could possibly contain. But as far as a Bakewell Tart goes—June’s Daring Baker’s challenge—the name is at least halfway helpful. It’s a tart. Yes, it could be savory or it could be sweet, but at least one can bet [...]
Filed under: Tarts and Pies | 7 Comments
A preview….
What could these be used for? Fresh from a Saturday morning Farmer’s Market, these cherries would be excellent in pie, jam, a tart..
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The Dip’s It.
To say my family likes hummus would be a large understatement. Of the three cups of hummus made Wednesday night after dinner, by lunchtime today, Friday, not a bit remains. Not a smear is left in the Tupperware, not a smudge. One couldn’t get even the minuscule hummus remnant onto a pita chip, let alone [...]
Filed under: Savory | 1 Comment
Sandwich Optional.
When I came home this year for Thanksgiving, I had one mission to complete—return with large amounts of baked goods. In college apparently, one of the biggest commodities is the ability to produce and deliver home-baked, (or at least hand-baked), goods. As it turned out, the week following Thanksgiving was ‘reading week’ or the ‘dead’ [...]
Filed under: Chocolate, Cookie | 8 Comments
“Cake? Cake?” “Cookies? Cookies?” 7:40 a.m. in the blue morning light, the first sound would be the beginnings of coffee. The fridge being pried open, the lid twisting off a jar, and the cascading clinks of the beans. The delayed aromatics follow as the beans are ground and shook out into the coffee pot. Five [...]
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The great thing about cake, this cake and really any other cake, are the endless frosting and filling possibilities. Sure, the cake is great. This one especially—dense while at the same time being fluffy, chocolaty but not too sweet, tender and moist— it’s a great cake. But really, if one bakes a three-layer cake, it’s [...]
Filed under: Cake, Chocolate | 9 Comments
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