DIY vanilla extract
It’s important to have people in your life who push you to do your best and follow your passions and all that, or at least those who send you three kinds of vanilla beans and subtle hints. For my birthday…
Blooming cocoa powder
You see it all the time in recipes for brownies, chocolate cakes, and pretty much anything else with cocoa powder: the instruction to pour boiling water (or sometimes coffee, or even red wine) over the cocoa powder to “bloom” it….
Egg and hashbrown nests
On the sixth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Six geese-a-laying Five golden rings Four calling birds, three French hens, two turtledoves, and a partridge in a pear tree. For a pretty simple idea–bake hashbrowns and an…
Pie crust: battle of the fats
Last week I wrote a whole post about fats in pie crusts and why they work and which one makes the best pastry and all that jazz. I even made you an explanatory table! But much as I love knowing…
