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Paczki Day
Also posted in Article, Bread, Ethnic Cuisine, Food Adventure, Food Culture, Video Tagged CBS, Chicago, paczki, Polish, Steve Dolinsky, video Leave a comment
Guest Post: Carri’s Bacon Truffles
- Bacon truffle presented two ways. Photo by Carri Thurman
Also posted in Guest Post, Pastry, Pork!, Recipes, Technique Tagged bacon truffles, bon bons, carri thurman, chocolate, dessert, ganche, recipe, treats, two sisters bakery 24 Comments
Holiday Cookie Time
Guest post from My Girl Friday, who loves loves loves cookies—M.R. by Emilia Juocys December is here and it is time to bake cookies. It is not as easy of a task as one might think it is. I spend about two days thinking of the combination of cookies that I will be baking and presenting for Christmas. I review classic cookies that I make year round, seasonal cookies, and ones that take a bit longer to make. My labor of love are these cookies. The two dozen that make it in the box to share with friends, loved ones, and co-workers. This is my way to share my skill and love of baking with those around me. This year will be a more meaningful Christmas baking season since my mentor has ...
Also posted in baking, From Scratch, Guest Post, Holiday, Recipes Tagged baking, cookies, emilia juocys, ginger pigs, mise en place, orange delights, recipes 22 Comments
Winter Treats
Also posted in Appetizers, Article, baking, beverages, Bread, Recipes Tagged A to Z, Guardian UK, holiday, recipes, traditions, winter foods Leave a comment
Caramel Apples
Also posted in Article, From Scratch Tagged Caramel Apples, Fall Treats, The Pioneer Woman Comments closed
Chicago, XOCO & Chocolate
I'm such a homebody, I dread book tour trips and typically stress about them, and I nearly always return thrilled to have gone and surprised and amazed by what I encountered. Last week was Chicago and the schedule was so tight that I took a taxi from O'Hare straight to the Chicago Tribune's test kitchen where Monica Eng, formerly a food reporter now on the investigative beat, reverted to her former purview to join me in making an easy Coq au Vin from Ruhlman's Twenty (I forgot how good it was till I tasted it—haven't made it since Donna took the pix). I had time for a quick lunch after across the street at The Purple Pig (pig ears and the artichokes), excellent casual place recommended by a twitter friend.
That night there was ...
Also posted in Books, chefs, Food Adventure, Travel Tagged Brendon Edwards, butcher & larder, Chicago, chicago tribune, chopping block, emilia juocys, John Peters, Nightwood, Paul Kahan, Rick Bayless, Shaw Lash, The Bristol, The Publican, XOCO Comments closed
Snickerdoodle Fix
It turns the stomach, the kind of email Marlene sent me over the weekend. Marlene who runs the cooking site CooksKorner said that one of Ruhlman's Twenty recipe testers, Matthew Kayahara, had done a 4x recipe of the cookies in the book (page 161), the basic cinnamon-sugar cookie, and it was badly out of whack. Indeed, when Marlene checked what was in the book, she found that the published recipe contained three times the amount of granulated sugar it should have. It's a book writer's nightmare. It also reminds me what a great thing an ebook is or an app that updates on your device automatically.
But there is some small recourse. I can announce the error here and publish a correction. Here it is, the tested and true snickerdoodle recipe, based ...
Chocolate Ice Cream
Also posted in Article, Books Tagged chocolate ice cream, david lebovitz, dessert, jenis splendid ice cream, recipe Comments closed
Cheesecake Recipe
Also posted in Article, baking, Recipes Tagged cheesecake, dessert, new york times, recipe Comments closed
Salted Caramel
Been so busy recently have scarcely had time to post. Just got back from taking James to camp :( My chief videographer and dessert innovator. I was in Boston talking salt on Simply Ming. I was in NYC working on confections with Bouchon Bakery head chef Sebastien Rouxel and putting together a pitch for a chef drama with some friends. I came home to find a great new ice cream book from Ohio's own Jeni Britton Bauer! Salt, sweets, ice cream, and an unused photo donna shot for the new book due out in fall: salted-caramel! Of course. Caramel is one of those awesome no brainer dessert sauces that more people ought to do at home. Takes 10 minutes tops, uses inexpensive ingredients, and ...
Also posted in Ratios, Recipes, sauce Tagged columbus, ice cream, James Ruhlman, jenis splendid ice cream, ratio, recipe, salted caramel sauce Comments closed















