So today I made two types of scones for tea at Karen’s house! I made some cranberry scones that I got from this recipe on Smitten Kitchen (my favorite food blog!). I also altered that recipe to make a batch of savory bacon and cheddar scones, which turned out quite well. The cranberry ones were [...]
Posts Tagged ‘baking’
Rosemary bread: the sequel
After typing up my old recipe for rosemary bread, I felt like I had to bake something, so I tried the aforementioned un-kneaded rosemary peasant bread. It came out surprisingly light and even of crumb despite the lack of kneading, and lumpy-looking but in that ‘rustic’ kind of way. I got real sea salt and [...]
rosemary bread: an ongoing story
I am obsessed with bread. Slowly yet steadily, and with many lumpy first attempts, baking will yeild its secrets to me, and I will become the greatest baker in Japan create the bread of nationalism yes. The rosemary bread recipe I’ve used in the past is based off of this, but someday soon I hope [...]
Fuck you, red velvet cake.
In high school, I learned calculus without the help of basic math skills, and instead persisted on sheer force of will and my ingrained ability to follow explicit instructions. Similarly, I have learned to bake–nothing pleases me more than a set of instructions without compromise, without leeway, without the intrusion of the human soul. I [...]
Glazed Lemon Pound Cake
The Story of a Lemon Pound Cake and the boy who loved it, in his tummy!
Naan
Naan – was cooked, was good, was eaten, was delicious.
yet more on cupcakes
I was going to comment on Kim’s post about the strawberry champagne cupcakes, but when it got this long I thought it was time for a new post. I made them, too, about a week ago. Here is some trivia about the recipe and the comedy of errors that is cooking in the Bronx (n.b. [...]
Alliterative Dessert
Chocolate-Covered Cherry Cupcakes! I recently saw a chocolate-covered red velvet cake ball, and I was Inspired. I happened to have an excellent chocolate cherry cupcake recipe, so I thought the best thing in the world would be to make a chocolate-covered cherry cupcake.
Full disclosure: I got this recipe from a Nigella Lawson book. She’s prettier [...]