Posts Tagged ‘ baking ’

Madelines

Sugar, check. Sugar, check. Sugar, check. Fat, check. OH hell yeah. The only other time I’ve come across these delicious cookies, was oddly in the first Transporter movie in which the French cop reminisces about his youth and daily madelines. These were easy to make but the bottoms got crispy fairly quickly, but the crunch [ READ MORE ]

Profiteroles w/ Chocolate sauce

Mouth Heaven strikes again, and though this dish sounds like some kind of sleep aid pharma drug(pro-fit-eh-roll), it is all of that and more. Easy to whip up and easier to eat. You could even make a batch the morning of a party and freeze/refrigerate them as you can serve them cold with boiling chocolate [ READ MORE ]

Sourdough (white)

Well I put the Mother I discussed in yesterday’s post to work today. I was able to create 2 loaves, each approaching 1 lb. Baking is fairly easy and pays big dividends, the majority of effort is spent waiting, considering this was the culmination of about two weeks of dreams and one week of anticipating [ READ MORE ]

Mother/Bread Starter

  • March 26th, 2010
  • Posted in baking

I know that I have been baking for all of 2 weeks or so but I am immediately drawn to doing things as archaically as possible. For a few reason but mostly because I think there is intrinsic value in doing things yourself rather than buying things. So when I came across a recipe for [ READ MORE ]

Baguettes

I still have some store bought yeast to use before I start baking with some homemade starter and my sous chef of a wife had a craving for some french bread. A quick search and I found a quick and easy recipe that I was able to modify to create 3 tasty baguettes[ READ MORE ]

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