Archive for November, 2008

Pumpkin Creme Brulee!

Thursday, 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 [...]

Vanilla Ice Cream – from scratch!

Sunday, 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 real thing is, [...]

Peanut Butter Chocolate Truffles – finally!

Sunday, 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 [...]