Monthly Archives: November 2008

Pumpkin Creme Brulee!

Posted on November 27th, 2008

Oh my – was I excited about this one. Here’s the next installment of SOB starring Charity of Sweet Charity Pie and myself :) It was my pick this time, and although we both already did a creme brulee for Tuesdays with Dorie, and although we had just done a vanilla sauce for the ice [...]

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Vanilla Ice Cream – from scratch!

Posted on November 16th, 2008

In our third SOB installment, Charity (of sweetcharitypie) and I bring to you vanilla ice cream! I was surprised about a few things – 1. I had NO idea how many egg yolks went into ice cream 2. How bad for you the-real-thing-from-scratch ice cream really is for your arteries 3. How cream colored the [...]

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Peanut Butter Chocolate Truffles – finally!

Posted on November 2nd, 2008

Like most things I attempt for the first (or second) time, the results are mediocre. Sometimes I get lucky, and sometimes I get persistent. The latter was the case with the truffles. You see, Charity and I had chosen truffles to kick off our SOB baking bonanza. I did the first batch exactly according to [...]