The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.
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Mascarpone Cheese – Vera’s Recipe (Baking Obsession) for [...]
Yesterday, the Garces group opened the Garces Trading Company on the outskirts of the gayborhood. Today, I went. It’s smaller than I thought it would be with a cafe with waiter service in the middle and the food purchase areas around the perimeter in a sort of racetrack around the eating area. Cheeses and charcuterie [...]
Who knew? Crippling snowstorms would fall on the city on Saturdays in the same winter. Shocking. In a near reiteration of the last storm before Christmas, this one dumped 18″ on the city. Most businesses were closed in the neighborhood with the exception of places frequented by locals. The gyms were open, two coffee shops, [...]
The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.
The best thing about this challenge was the side-challenge of the graham cracker recipe. They blow [...]
Why do I fight sleep? Though I have tomorrow off, I’m not off the hook for the rest of the week and still have to workk two 12-hour shifts on Thursday and Friday. So what am I doing yawning yet still flipping through my browser’s tabs trying to find some article I haven’t read yet? [...]
I hate to not follow up on something I had determined to do. I’ve been wanting to learn to make French-style macarons for ages. That was the recipe to make for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge.
I had every intention of doing it, even if I was flying back from South America the day before the [...]
The latest in the sometime list category in which I post things to remind myself of them rather than gracing the world with yet another rant.
With the onset of the new season, food and the new fall menus are being hysterically discussed again in this food-crazed town. Here is where I’d like to eat [...]
The September 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan.
Well, this is it. My first challenge with the Daring Bakers.
The challenge was vols-au-vent, which are [...]
I am so obsessed with food that one of my favorite things to do on my days off is discovering new places to shop for it. In this food-crazed town, there are a lot of places to go. Unfortunately, I live in a part of town more crammed with clothes boutiques and art galleries than [...]
I am obsessed with saving money. I was always the kid who never spent her monetary Christmas gifts but put them in the bank of my own free will. While siblings and friends cavorted around with new trinkets, I went without. I never had a master plan, I just couldn’t bear the thought of spending [...]
I think it rained for 28 of the 30 days of June. I don’t know what the stats are for July, but it had been drier, even though I’ve gotten soaked *to the skin* twice in the past three days. To add insult to injury, both times, I’ve gotten home, showered, changed into lounge wear, [...]
It’s the summer now and thusly the beginning of iced coffee season. I was walking behind a girl today who held a tray of four Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffees. I looked at it and thought of the sheer waste iced coffee is. The little cup holders on those disposable trays hold only about the bottom [...]