Cooking
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Croissants and danishes and brioche, oh my!
I recently took a 2-day course in viennoiserie at the San Francisco Baking Institute (yes, the same place I took the pie class). I’ve also taken 2 bread courses there, but I haven’t had a chance to blog about those. This course was taught by the same woman as the pie class and it was…
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Pies, pies, pies! Pie season round up
This past October, I took a 2-day pie baking class at the San Francisco Baking Institute. I learned so much about baking pies! Completely changed the way I do it now. With Thanksigving and plenty of people to eat my pies, I took the opportunity to get in lots of practice. I made over 25…
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Freezer Pizza Recipe and Video!
I made a video! I also made pizza. This is a video to go along with the freezer-style pizza that I make on the regular. I call it freezer pizza because the quality of it is very like those cheap pizzas you get from the freezer at the supermarket. They’re definitely not gourmet, but they…
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More French Macarons
As previously mentioned, I’m obsessed with macarons. Here’s the latest batch: chocolate peanut butter, raspberry chocolate, chocolate with chocolate caramel and plain with chocolate caramel. This was my first time making chocolate meringue (with cocoa powder in the meringue) and I may have to tweak some of the cooking times or temperatures as they came…
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French macarons
The fact of the matter is that I’m currently obsessed with french macarons. I did a macaron making party for my birthday. I made my macaron apron. I have more macaron fabric which I haven’t used yet. I love them. They are cute. They are tasty. The other weekend I made 5 batches (I only…
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Martha Stewart Baker’s Apron
Recently for my birthday there was a macaron making party because I love macarons and I like making macarons even more! So of course, since it was my birthday, I had to be dressed appropriately with a macaron apron. I found this fabulous fabric on Etsy. It’s cotton linen from Japan that is all…
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Organized spice jars make finding spices easier
Here’s a post that I’ve been meaning to do for a while. Had the pictures, but got waylaid by life. Better late than never! Spice jars are one of those items that always seem to end up a crazy mess. Partly it’s because the ones you get in the rotating ones never hold a full…
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New Year’s Eve Kransekake
Time for a food post. For New Year’s Eve I wanted to make a cake since my parents were coming to celebrate with me. I decided to make a Norwegian celebration cake known as a kransekake because we all love the almond-y flavor and it looks cool. I had made one a while ago, but…
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Birthday Tea Party
For my birthday this year, I invited my friends to a tea party. Seeing as I was having a birthday party, I couldn’t very well not have goodie bags. The gold takeout boxes are actually leftover from the candy bar from my wedding over 5 years ago. I’ve kept them that long. I know. I…
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Jerk chicken meatballs . . . well the ingredients at least
I was making meatballs the other day from The Meatball Shop Cookbook. I’ve been quite happy with this cookbook. The meatballs have been delicious. The best part is that most of them are super easy. You just toss all the ingredients in, mix them up and cook. It makes enough for 6 people usually, but they…