What I choose to bake is often a subconscious expression of how I am feeling. When I feel bold I come out swinging with elaborate, multi-stepped recipes. When I feel brave I try a new genre or cuisine. When I feel sad I eat a lot of butter. When I feel angry or confused I [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 24, 2009
Puddle it up
It’s a brownie puddle, people. A dense buttery chocolate pie with holes of chocolate ganache.
What the fuck else can I even SAY? What do you want to hear from me? That it’s easy to make? Well, it is. That you probably already have all the ingredients to make it? I don’t know your shopping habits, [...]
October 21, 2009
On taking sage advice
Like many of you, I was upset to hear that Gourmet magazine has been cancelled. I mean, not upset like fetch me a pint of ice cream upset. But upset like, whyyy? Why must the things I like continuously be cancelled? So when I had this bunch of fresh sage and I didn’t know what [...]
October 18, 2009
You you you autumn know
Hey! Check it:
Yes, I decided to repeat my apple-stacking accomplishments from my favorite Apple Crumble post. There were several non-believers last time. All, you taped them together, right? Taped them? Come on. This time I’m giving myself extra points for 1) variety of apples and 2) seemingly incompatible shapes and sizes of apples. What I’m saying [...]
October 15, 2009
Rolling in it
Wow I am not even kidding, readers. Don’t even MAKE these. You’ll watch yourself put in 2 whole sticks of butter and end up with like…2 dozen cookies. Most of which you’ll eat yourself, god damn it, despite telling yourself to STOP. STOP THIS. IT’S EASY. JUST DON’T PUT ANOTHER ONE IN YOUR MOUTH. but [...]
October 12, 2009
Noodling
I had this whole post written out, and I had reread it, and to be honest, it was really terribly written in the way only I know how to do. As is exemplified yet again in this newly written post’s very first sentence. Run on, too many commas, self-centered, and, and, and.
And. Then I read [...]
October 9, 2009
Toast is good.
Life. It repeats itself. Even the bad parts. There exist days when it seems like ONLY the bad parts repeat. But you can take hold of the good parts and make sure that they repeat themselves as well.
Like this cinnamon raisin bread, for example. I’ve made it before, I’ve eaten half the loaf by myself, [...]
October 6, 2009
Fucking CHIFFON and shit
The first thing I should note about today’s recipe, a Gingery Pear Chiffon Tart, is that the preamble to the recipe states that it is ideal for a “gala dinner.” Well, I don’t know about you, but I am 26 years old and I work for a nonprofit and I live in the 2nd most [...]
October 3, 2009
Under Pressure (that burns a building down, splits a family in two, puts people on streets…um ba ba beh, um ba ba beh, ee deh da)
What, do you not like Queen? Come on. Freddy Mercury? The man could SING. Oh friends, I believe I just thought of the perfect transition here. Under Pressure –> Queen –> Fat-bottomed girls –> Black bottomed cupcakes. Oh Trina. (you can’t call me that, by the way) How Do you Do it?
The real reason for [...]
