Slogan stolen from Tim Gunn of Project Runway. As I mentioned, my new kitchen is not ideal. One frustration was a lack of places to store my pots and pans. I had a cabinet over the wall oven where I could stack pots and pans, but getting out the one I needed was a sometimes…
I’ve tried lots of different ways of organizing my recipes. purchased cookbook notebooks and index cards (which had to be rewritten by hand from the original sources), a 3-ring binder (printing or ripping or writing recipes onto paper), various online recipe savers/collectors (where you have to enter in all the ingredients from a database), a…
I will admit a great fondness for hydrogenated icing from plastic tubs, as I have mentioned previously. It’s a terrible habit I’d love to kick. However I’ve tried making real buttercream icing in several different recipes, but I really didn’t like them. Either they tasted like sugar water paste, or biting into a stick of…
I have never been a fan of cocoa packets added to boiling water. It’s a commercial concoction with so little in common with the original chocolate drink brought over to Europe from South America. While I don’t like spicy at all, so I’ll avoid the original chocolate with ground chili peppers, I think hot chocolate should be an experience that a chocolate lover can truly love.
A review of Forgotten Skills of Cooking by Darina Allen.
This was a busy weekend, and a rather self-imposed one at that. Saturday I had a great burst of energy, and I decided to try out some recipes I have found for various home cleaning products. And I have not one photo to document it all because I never remember until afterwards. *sigh*. Next time.…
I’ll admit it. I like canned icing. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say I much prefer canned icing. I have no idea why I still find it so appealing. It’s in a plastic can that I’d rather not buy, and has a tongue-twisting list of ingredients including partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, high…
Oh ubiquitous mason jar how wonderful to use you are modern clear and older blue crazed with age or shiny new… Ah, the ubiquitous mason jar. A brilliant storage unit that has gone practically unchanged in the last 100 years. Strong, easy to store and organize, and long since proven itself to just about everyone.…