Archive for the ‘Dessert’ Category
Saturday, December 30th, 2006
There are certain areas in baking that I am not quite ready to attack.And pies would be one of them. But thanks to having no shame in using frozen pies, ala Mrs. Smith, pies are usually a dessert option in my household during the holidays.My favorite since childhood would have ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
What better way to put the newly remodeled (all done by my Dad) than to bake with a good friend? Hang came over and we spent hour after hour in the kitchen working on the chemistry known as baking.He bought measuring cups. Don't ask how, but I managed to do ...
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
...or some creative mess of a name like that.A brown sugar syrup was the byproduct of a botched batch of buttery toffee.Never add water to make English toffee, as it will not reach the appropriate consistency upon cooling. Fortunately, I realized its potential as the sweetening agent in baking, and ...
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
After two weeks since the first concert, the second one came.
And unlike the first reception, we had money left over to purchase goodies for the reception.To get into the holiday spirit meant more than just singing traditional carols and holiday songs about dreidels, mistletoe and snow. It meant bringing out ...
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Sunday, November 26th, 2006
Hooray for chocolate molds and many years of watching Dessert Circus and Jacques Torres working chocolate a million different ways.
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
After dinner I whipped up a small bowl of syrup made from boiling sugar, brown sugar and water, until thick and carmelized, but not to the extent that hard balls form when dropped into cold water.Then I cut up the pumpkin from yesterday.The reason why you should steam at a ...
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Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Courtesy of Apple Fest at NYU, I came home the other night with a pumpkin in my gym bag. Why? Well, because I spent the walk to and from math class carrying it in my hands like a baby, and that felt silly after a while. Hence, gym bag.What do ...
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Sunday, October 15th, 2006
Ian, I 'm scared.
Why? Of what?What is my genoise won't rise again?Well what went wrong last time?I enumerated the possibilities and told all to Ian. This was followed by a new plan of attack. The bain marie.What resulted? Super volumized eggs when they were beaten. Really, a few more minutes ...
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