It’s been a while since my last post, but I haven’t been idle; mead-making has been taking up most of my creative cycles. However, after hearing about the relative success of Operation Pantry Clearout, a friend recently unloaded the contents of her freezer on to me, which included a sizable …
I’m on a quest to use up pantry items and free up some space, while making tasty things while I’m at it. I have my eye on clearing out the space currently used by applesauce, because I honestly don’t use it that much on a day-to-day basis. Growing up, apples …
Invariably, after making an angel food cake, the pressing question becomes “what do I do with all of these yolks?” Usually the answer is some form of custard; for me, it’s David Lebovitz’s vanilla ice cream recipe. This time, I didn’t have the cream on hand to make ice cream, …
Forever ago, I found a chart that listed all of the readily available non-wheat flours and their properties, for the purpose of helping people bake gluten-free things more easily. I can’t find that chart, so I’m looking around for other options now, and here’s what I’ve found so far. Between …
For the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about Southern food. It started when I found a smoked pork hock at my nearby grocery store, which was unusual enough for them to carry that I took notice of it the next few times I was shopping and finally bought after …
Today the fridge decided not to work. This was a situation no doubt aided by the fact that the edge of a block of butter had prevented the freezer from closing completely, leading to the fridge’s cold air intake frosting over. After getting all of the perishables into a cooler …
Hey, come on — don’t laugh at me. I know that all of the with-it food bloggers have moved on to newer, hipper, underexposed sources for their recipes, but this is my recipe book, not a place to prove my hipster cred. A long-time friend introduced me to these cookies …
This year, the russet apple saplings I brought to my parents seven or so years ago finally bore fruit. I needed a pie crust recipe to turn some of them into my dad’s favourite dessert, and Deb’s recipes at Smitten Kitchen hadn’t steered me wrong so far, so I decided to …
Just a quick entry this time. I made these cookies in parallel with J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, since I wanted to try a little something different from the usual. The cookies turned out just fine, but I think my personal tastes run toward something less sweet …
I’ve been craving cookies for weeks now, but didn’t get around to making them for a good long while. Others would tell me to just go buy some, but I have a rather strict rule when it comes to baked goods: if I’m too lazy to make them, and a …
