Archive for September, 2008
Tuesdays With Dorie: Creme Brulee
I promise that brevity will not be the norm. However, I’m in the process of starting a tough new job, and over the next few months I’ll be spending a lot of off-time studying. Look! Here be my creme brulee!
I used the broiler method, which proved to be successful enough. Half of my custards caramelized, [...]
Read More..>>Sometimes I wish the Internet didn’t exist.
Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to Internet and he’ll masturbate for a lifetime.
Information has never been more available, and it has never been more portable. We are living life On Demand right now. Socialization has given way to the Facebook, friendship to the blogroll, and appointment [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie - Dimpled Plum Cake
I’m in a bit of a hurry this week, but I’ll show off the goods.
In-pan: looking okay.
Out-of-pan: flavor explosion.
I think my plums were too big, which created too many dimples. Therefore, when the cake came out, it came apart. Science.
Smell you later.
Tuesdays With Dorie - Chocolate Chunkers
In deference to the many honorable ladies and few honorable gentlemen of Tuesdays With Dorie, I have decided to bake all future recipes fully clothed. It will remain this way until Ugly Food for an Ugly Dude becomes a pay site (or until I become a Handsome Dude).
I made a few changes to the recipe [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie - Chocolate Whopper Malted Drops
These cookies came out boringly well! I guess that’s a good thing, but it’s almost embarrassing how little I have to say about the cookies. I was happy to see that there is far less butter than the previous week’s recipe. The batter was great, and the cookies came out nicely. I liked the crunch [...]
Read More..>>Tuesdays With Dorie: Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chipsters
Yesterday did not seem like Monday, so I almost forgot to do my baking. It just seemed like a little extra slice of Sunday. Luckily, common sense prevailed and I put myself to work baking Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chipsters.
These cookies, they are good.
After my previous disaster run of cookies (the tremendous Granola Grabbers), I [...]