Every now and then I like to send in some of my baking to the DH’s workplace. I like to bake for the experience of it, to try out a new recipe or a new technique. But as much as I like to eat my baking, I also like to fit into my clothes. So I bake…
Crackle-Topped Bubble Eclairs & Things I Learnt Making Them
My online bake-a-long group is making Dorie Greenspan’s Bubble Éclairs from her Baking Chez Moi cookbook this week, and I chose to make them with a crackle topping. They were definitely tasty, and also definitely more of a learning experience than I expected, even with previous éclair-making experience. Things I learnt while making them: If…
Homemade Copycat Oreos: Chocolate, Vanilla, and Mint with Bonus Chocolate-Dip
When I was growing up, I was a Girl Guide (known in the States as Girl Scouts) and we always sold cookies to raise funds for our activities. In Canada, the cookies came in two kinds: chocolate and vanilla. People would buy them buy the dozens and freeze them for future eating. Ha! Future…
BCM: I Can Bake A Cherry Pie! Or at least a Cherry Crumb Tart
This week’s Baking Chez Moi bake-a-long recipe is for Cherry Crumb Tart. In classic Dorie Greenspan style, she starts off the recipe by describing how she came up with the idea to make a tart with cherries after a drive through Alsace, France. As for me, my strongest association with cherries in baked form is…
Making the Most of Leftovers: Easy Pickled Vegetables
Given that I’m not a morning person, I usually prepare the day’s lunches the night before. Tonight I was making Thai spring rolls, and had some sliced green peppers left over. And given that I have a waste not, want not philosophy when it comes to food, you know I had to use them up…