Last night for dinner I attempted to make those cheesebreads we get at Chima (the Brazilian steakhouse in Tysons). Whenever I go to Chima I have often wondered (as I gorge myself on cheesebreads and roasted leg o’ lamb) how these wonderful little things are made (are they essentially soufflés? is it dark magic?). The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘baking’
Sandwich bread: take two
Well then. On only my second try, I’m pretty happy with my white sandwich bread. It’ll soon be time to branch out. This time I got a lighter, fluffier, still delicious loaf; still on the short side, but if I make more dough that should solve that problem. Here’s what I did: Decreased flour a [...]
Sandwich bread: take one
I have long wanted to master basic bread-baking, and since a coworker got a copy of Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything, which has a lot of bread recipes, I decided now was a good time to try. I’m really happy now with my recipes for risotto and penne alla vodka, but it took a [...]
lavender tea bread
A friend in NY told me she used to have lavender a lot in food as a kid, and that I should look into lavender bread (pursuant my continual rosemary bread obsession). This is based on the first good-looking lavender bread recipe I could find, though, and it’s a somewhat sweet non-yeast bread that relies [...]
beefs
In case you were wondering, Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon IS that complicated. Spelling it right is, too. Kim and I set out to recreate this epic dish and, even starting as a two-person team, it was still about a six-hour process. I also don’t know how Amy Adams had time to fall asleep, because there [...]
Merry Christmas cookies
Christmas (and Hanukkah) cookies! I might have gone a bit overboard with the dinosaur cookie cutter.
apple cake in a skillet, or, how not to set your kitchen on fire
Not long ago, a bunch of medievalists I know went apple-picking, as you do here in the city named after unusually large fruit, resulting in 15 lbs of apples sitting on my kitchen floor. I did what one naturally does under these circumstances while avoiding paper-writing, and baked: first whole-wheat apple muffins with brown sugar, [...]
cinnamon raisin scones + lemon glaze
Help I can’t stop baking! This was today’s. I think the sweetness of the glaze balances out the cinnamon well, and I’m also hoping it will help the scones keep a little bit better by keeping them slightly more moist – they’re normally quite disappointing after the first day (although this recipe is unusually flaky [...]
Sandwiches!
Sandwiches from mostly scratch.
Get That Dirt Off Ya Shoulda – Comfort Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
We all have guy/girl issues. We all dream of the day when we can be perfectly and unconditionally loved for who we are on the inside. We all hope for the day we can finally burst out of our rooms, newborn, not smelling of old clothes, takeout food, and that special kind of pheremone that [...]