Archive for the 'food' Category
Tuesdays With Dorie RESTITUTION – Black and White Chocolate Cake
This is one of those things that turned out so poorly that I’m not even going to try to take a good picture. Look! Gaze upon the disaster. Something went terribly wrong with my white chocolate whipped cream, and it became White Chocolate Creamy Curds. As a result, they were denser than the airy whipped [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie REPLICANT – Perfection Pound Cake
This pound cake turned out wonderfully. A little dry, but that’s poundcake for you. I pounded this cake at midnight on Monday, let it cool on the rack until 2am, and went to sleep shortly thereafter. I am tired. The poun dcake was a smash at work – I always know people really like something [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie RESURRECTION – Hidden Berry Cream Cheese Torte
This was a scrumptious, dense, rich dessert – very much a cheesecake, even though we call it a torte for some reason. The berries are raspberries, and the whole thing came out perfectly. The work unit tore the thing apart.
Tuesdays With Dorie RESIDUE – Brown Sugar Pecan Shortbreads
I did a lot of things wrong, you guys. I rolled these too thin. I didn’t put them anywhere near “apart” from one another on the baking sheets. I’m 95% certain that I didn’t refrigerate them for anything close to the minimum 2 hours recommended. So here they are – shortbreads that melted together into [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie RETRO – Quintuple Chocolate Brownies
Although Tuesdays With Dorie as we know it is quintuple dead, I’ll stay true to my word. I’m going to finish this book, which means doing the recipes that the group originally baked from January 2008 through July 1, 2008 (minus a few that I baked as extra credit during my original run). It took [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie RIP – Kids Thumbprints
This is the type of cookie I would never have eaten as a kid. There’s too much nuttiness going on here. If it had just been peanut butter and jelly, I’d have been there. As an adult, I love these. And true to my promise four years ago, I have not once made food look [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Chocolate Blueberry Ice Cream and Brrrrrrrrownies
This is last week’s “other” recipe, chocolate blueberry ice cream. Chocolate ice cream has never been my favorite (I’m a vanilla man through and through). For what it is, this is good. It’s not something I would go out of my way to make again (especially with my wife’s allergy to blueberries), but it was [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Puffed Double Plum? Tart and last week’s honey-almond fig? tart
This is the puffed double plum tart, or as I like to call it: the puffed pear/prune tart. Plums have disappeared from the grocery stores around here. There were no recommended suggestions, but I went with some red pears just because they would mirror some of the intended color of the plums. This is pretty [...]
Tuesdays With Dorie – Earl Grey Madeleines, and last week’s Normandy Apple Tart
I’ve never been a tea fan and I’ve never been particularly happy with madeleines. This one will not change my mind on either count. I had some bags of Earl Grey left over from some earlier TWD recipe – possibly Far Breton? Anyway, here we are now with tea cookies. This is last week’s Normandy [...]
Casey K: Pizza Hero
If you’re one of the few people that follows my lousy pizza blog, http://pizzashewrote.tumblr.com, you know that I recently had a disaster: my pizza stone shattered into a bajillion (four) pieces. Since September, I’ve been despondent about the whole thing. My homemade pizzas have been the pits and I fell back on the worst things: [...]