Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Oct 6th, 2009
Have you ever had a recipe go haywire and just not be able to figure out for the life of you what went wrong? You review the recipe again and again, thinking, “well, it certainly looks like I did exactly what I was supposed to…” One of the best parts of Tuesdays with Dorie is [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, french, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Sep 8th, 2009
I’ve noticed lately that some of the fanciest desserts are actually the easiest to make. Crème brulée? Mousse? Molten chocolate cake? There’s nothing difficult about any of them, and the same can be said of chocolate soufflé. You really just melt chocolate with sugar, then stir in milk and egg yolks. Whip some egg whites [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on Aug 25th, 2009
Oh, how times change. I had kind of thought that last year’s lemon cream tart would be my first and last citrus cream experience. Seriously, that is a lot of butter. But apparently, my attitude toward rich foods has slowly evolved from ‘this is way too fattening for me to indulge in more than a [...]
Posted in alcohol, cake, cheese, custard, dessert, freezer friendly, fruit, summer on Aug 23rd, 2009
My brother became known as the family cheesecake maker early on. I think we were still teenagers when he started getting cheesecake cookbooks. In one of those, there was a recipe for amaretto peach cheesecake that became a family favorite. I’m guessing it’s a Kraft recipe that’s widely available on the internet, but, frankly, I [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, freezer friendly, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Jul 29th, 2009
I haven’t been as interested in ice cream the last few years (I demand butter and flour and the stand mixer and the oven!), but that wasn’t always the case. When Dave and I started dating, we lived near a great frozen custard place. We’d go probably once a week, normally just for a single [...]
Cooking, to me, isn’t a competition. It’s about sharing and exchanging ideas. Cooking for someone is like offering them a bit of a gift, and competition adds intimidation where there should be none. Plus, whether someone is more or less experienced than me when it comes to cooking, I’m sure I have something to learn [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, gluten free, tuesdays with dorie on Jul 21st, 2009
Sometimes I have a hard time motivating myself to make certain things. Or, what I should really say is, I’m going through a cookies and cupcakes phase. Blancmanger is neither of those. So what is it? Basically fancy whipped cream. First, you heat milk, ground almonds, sugar, and in my case, a ridiculous amount of [...]
Posted in custard, dessert, fruit, gluten free, summer, tuesdays with dorie on Jun 16th, 2009
It seems lately that ice cream isn’t really my thing. For one thing, it hurts my sensitive teeth. For another, when it comes to making desserts, I really want to use the mixer. And the oven. And butter and flour and leavening. The blender and the stove? Pbbth! That’s for cooking, not baking. Although watching [...]
Posted in citrus, custard, dessert, fruit, pie, tuesdays with dorie on May 14th, 2009
You know how a lot of citrus recipes warn you to be careful not to get any of the white pith when you zest the fruit, because it’s bitter? Well, guess what? Bitter is good. This was my first whole lemon dessert, where everything but the seeds is included. It was simple. Blend sugar and [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, dessert, tuesdays with dorie on Apr 28th, 2009
Chocolate cream tart seems like an appropriate way to cap off this month of chocolate, with a bitter chocolate crust and rich chocolate pastry cream balanced by lightly sweetened whipped cream and topped off with decorations of pure bittersweet chocolate. It’s a good thing that I don’t get tired of chocolate or have problems with [...]
