Posted in bread, breakfast, daring bakers, french, recipe comparisons, yeast bread on May 24th, 2009
Someone must have told me “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” at a particularly impressionable age. Either that, or I’ve struggled through learning enough new subjects that I recognize the value of practice. Or maybe I’m just obsessive.
This was my first time making croissants, and it wasn’t perfect, which immediately [...]
Posted in candy, daring bakers, dessert, gluten free on Dec 24th, 2008
This was the caramel recipe that accompanied last month’s Daring Baker cake. I had no intention of making it, especially since I just barely got the cake made by the posting date. But then it seemed like everyone who made the caramels was raving about them, and I had never actually made caramels [...]
Posted in cake, daring bakers, dessert on Nov 29th, 2008
This will be my last Daring Baker entry. I’ve enjoyed being a member for the past year, and I learned something useful from every single recipe I’ve made for the group. However, between Tuesdays with Dorie and the Daring Bakers, the assigned baking recipes are starting to overwhelm me. I came really [...]
Posted in bread, daring bakers, italian, pizza, yeast bread on Oct 29th, 2008
This makes two Daring Baker recipes in a row that were already on my mental to-do list. It’s perfect because otherwise who knows when I actually would have gotten around to making them. I would have been making my standard pizza recipe, too lazy to try this new one which I’ve heard great [...]
Posted in appetizers, bread, cheese, daring bakers, dips, yeast bread on Sep 27th, 2008
This is the first Daring Baker recipe that has not only been from a cookbook I own, but was a recipe that I had planned to make soon anyway. Since football season started a few weeks ago, I’ve made Sunday into a snack day instead of serving an actual meal, which gives me a [...]
Posted in chocolate, custard, daring bakers, dessert, french on Aug 31st, 2008
I was happy about Tony and Meeta’s choice of Chocolate Eclairs for this month’s Daring Baker recipe because I actually have some experience making éclairs, but I haven’t found a recipe that’s convinced me to use it faithfully. And because I’m somewhat confident in my éclair-making ability, I was comfortable tweaking the recipe.
When I [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, daring bakers, dessert, nuts on Jul 30th, 2008
There were a lot of similarities between the Filbert Gateau that Chris chose for this month’s Daring Baker challenge and the opera cake we made a few months ago. This works out well for me, because I could definitely use the cake-building practice. And I don’t know if I’m getting better at this [...]
Posted in bread, daring bakers, dessert, fruit, pork, vegetables, yeast bread on Jun 29th, 2008
Wow, who knew making Danish dough would be so easy? I’d previously considered making some sort of laminated dough, Danish or croissants or the like, but the number of steps involved with those recipes made me think that it would be an intense project requiring the better part of a day.
Not so. While [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, citrus, daring bakers, dessert, french on May 28th, 2008
Lately I’ve become fixated with Bo Friberg’s The Professional Pastry Chef. I don’t want and have never wanted to be a professional pastry chef. But I flipped through this book and I was hooked. (Actually, in my arrogance, I grabbed The Advanced Pastry Chef first.) Page after page of beautifully plated [...]
Posted in cake, cheese, chocolate, daring bakers, dessert on Apr 27th, 2008
My first impression when I saw Elle and Deborah’s choice for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge was that it was going to be a pain in the ass. Then I convinced myself that it wouldn’t be so bad. I figured it would be a valuable recipe to have in my arsenal. It’s [...]
