How to Eat Extremely Well
Dessert served with your own fingers No cutting, plating or garnishing, these peanut butter cups are already a beautiful serving. And far better than a peanut butter cup you buy once a year on Halloween to give away to children. Easy to make, the PB cups take less effort than
Making cocktails that quench but don’t inebriate At least three elements of flavor in a drink makes me feel like I’m having a cocktail, even if no alcoholic beverage is in the glass. And cranberry juice is bitter enough that it feels like alcohol. Why would I worry about making
– No Molasses — but just as Ginger A Small Ginger Cake This cake is intense, and I want to make it small — for our little family. So all I need is 2.5 cups total batter. Choose a large enough beaker for an immersion blender that will hold at
Not From a Sack of Tortillas Steuart made a coarse cornmeal, flour and water mixture that turned into something like a corn tortilla you could buy in the grocery store. His tortillas that he used as a base for vegetables and as a nice lice were: mostly corn, round, thin
I want a moist cake that will come out of my beautiful Nordicware cake pan. I trust David Leibovitz for desserts although I always cut his sugar measurement in half. His Double Chocolate Cake sounds great but I’m on my last block of Callebaut chocolate. I have the dutch cocoa
Making a fragrant staple I used 1/2 cup of dried Pakistani rose petals purchased from Savory Spice Shop because I haven’t loved them in cooked dishes like the curries I’ve tried, where they were a last minute garnish. The dried petals became a brilliant rose red when put in 1
Steam, bake and shape trials The Pork Steamed Buns turned out okay. The project convinced us that there was a place for steamed bread in our repertoire, but not exactly the way we made them two weeks ago. Steuart had left over dough in the freezer. Thawing that and making
Bao Buns Bremner Style Sunday, May 17, 2020 What’s wonderful about WonderBread? I asked myself as we tried to make bread with small consistent air holes from a sweet dough. The steamed buns Steuart made this week used a dough that reminded me of Wonderbread, and I tried to
When we go out and stop into a bar or restaurant to get a quick bite to eat, we always order French Fries because we don’t have a fryer and can’t make them at home. The Coronavirus has been saving us from our bad habit of eating French Fries since
Mothers’ Day Focaccia Bread with the Bremner Brothers. Steuart likes dough to prove overnight but was too busy last night watching the movie Contagion to make the dough. He started it a 8 this morning, instead. We have tens of pounds of white flour but not much whole wheat. The