Archive for the ‘Sweet’ Category
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Innocently enough, Frangelico is bottled in a very monk-like bottle, complete with a thick piece of rope for his outfit.Frangelico was the first thing I recognized when my brother and I were browsing for liquers. Thanks to many food network episodes of Emeril, I knew offhand what Frangelico was-- hazelnut ...
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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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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
What do you do with leftovers that you would like to distribute as evenly as possible?Invest in a small package of cellophane bags and the possibilities can come to life.Mini-cupcakes, small candy canes, holiday Kissables, butter cookies and candy from yestereve are grouped and bound together.
Hopefully, it will help bring ...
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2006
Continuing the chocolate-learning process, I decided it was time to whip up some candy to make holiday treat bags for Middle C club members at school.To avoid disaster, I tried to pick things that are nearly foolproof.Like almond toffee.
Toffee is like caramel, except there is no cream. There's butter and ...
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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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Saturday, November 11th, 2006
I'm in this club at school that does concerts and I always feel that food and music are very much correlated. After a concert, we always have a reception for our guests.
So what do you do when the club only has a limited amount of money and you have a ...
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Friday, November 3rd, 2006
The reference, of course, to Oregon Trail. (I can't begin to tell you how many times I had typhoid, low food supplies and risked drowning by not caulking my raft when fording the river...) If you're still wondering if I really do have oxen in the city...no. None at all.So ...
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