So, here’s what I got for playing fast & loose with Mr. Keller’s instructions: A large, oddly shaped loaf – because I didn’t rise it in a linen-lined bowl nor bake it on a stone in an oven with steam-generating chain and rocks. And I probably didn’t dock it – make the cuts – correctly […]
… or haste makes waste, or I’m just getting more absent minded the older I get – pick your favorite cliché. On Tuesday (second to last day of October) I had to be at work until about 8:30 at night, so I didn’t go in to the office until about noon. I got about 3 […]
Victoria sponge with pastry cream and berries and cherries. I like the Victoria sponge recipe from Michael Smith’s The Afternoon Tea Book. The WorldCat record has no cover image, so I linked the title to Google Book – but there’s no handy recipe preview, and I have also used this Saveur recipe, which is available […]
On Friday morning I woke up with a sinus headache, so I was glad when my walking partner had forgotten our date, and wasn’t really ready to go. I thought about going back home and getting back in bed, but instead I walked downtown through light snow, almost ice pellets, and got my work laptop, […]
I had a nice little day after birthday party last night, but I took no pictures at all. I meant to … Even though I’ve always been a birthday pie kinda girl – as is my entire family, boys and girls and even the married-ins – I wanted cake this year, so I baked myself […]
Started with a Willy St. Co-op finance committee, after which I got to drive my car out the back exit of the parking lot to Jenifer St. Nothing happened – I didn’t run over any kids or old ladies, or people my own age, houses didn’t crumble to dust. I just pulled out, turned left, […]
Mark went for a walk and I ate vegetable leftovers for dinner, braises, I guess: Molly Wizenberg’s cabbage braised in cream and Splendid Table’s tumeric braised potatoes. We talked about staying in and watching movies on DVD or streamed – with dessert. With thoughts of all the frozen fruit I’ve got downstairs – peaches, blueberries, […]
I joined a virtual cooking club for Dorrie Greenspan’s Around my French Table – French Fridays with Dorrie. The recipe for this week – October 29 – was Marie-Helene’s apple cake. I made two of them for a Saturday morning brunch, for a 30th wedding anniversary. My cakes were a little too thin, because I […]
Last night to use up some too-ripe-to-eat-for-breakfast bananas, I made one layer of banana cake, with chocolate frosting, all based on a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, that was also inspired by overripe bananas. I link to her, and read her often, but I had never used one of her recipes. This one for banana cake, […]
So my edible book contest cake didn’t win anything. There was a critic’s choice – our critic was Raphael Kadushin – and two runners up, plus people’s choice awards in four categories. Come to think of it, nothing I voted for won anything, either. My cake was just a cake, albeit with stuff on top. […]