I like to think of myself as someone who embraces challenging recipes… and I think I usually am that person. But this latest edition of SOB that Charity, of Sweet Charity Pie, and I bring you had me seriously procrastinating. I was scared of laminated dough. I mean really scared. So I just put it [...]
Chocolate peanut-butter macarons, to be exact
This was the very first time I’ve ever attempted parisian macarons, and I’ve wanted to try to make them for a long long time. In our latest SOB installment, the pick was mine and I jumped on the chance to make these. Charity was game from the get-go, [...]
In our latest SOB installment, Charity chose – and lemon curd it was! I won’t point out for too long that this was chosen around November or something (??) but with the holidays and other craziness, I just couldn’t get on the ball. But the New Year is well underway and we’re back!
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I alluded to it in my last post – this so called buddy baking project. HOW EXCITING! Charity, as you’ll soon meet, is my new blogging buddy, and together we’re going to work our way through Sherry Yards “Secrets of Baking“. This is a *fantastic* baking book with loads of useful instruction. The best part [...]
Is there a flavor that more defines fall than pumpkin? I think not. I think I’m often more excited about pumpkin than Christmas. Sure, the gifts are nice, but the taste and the smell of pumpkin is nothing short of amazing. To kick off the fall season, my new friend and blogging buddy, Charity of [...]
