Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Brothers Bagel via Video Phone Call Steuart is making Paul Hollywood’s Bagels and Steuart’s brother is making Mark Bittman’s recipe. We were all happy with the taste and the chewiness of the outside texture. Andrew wished his had puffed up a little more and was looking to order some fast-acting
A Sharp Yeasty Cracker: Weighed 500 grams of organic white flour, worked in 4 Tablespoons of butter by hand, and when the mixture’s pieces were the size of peas. I added 4.5 ounces of cheese (1/3 cheddar and 2/3 emmanthaller), 6 grams of coarse pepper (see process story about pepper
Pretzels and Beer Happy Hour in Quarantine Pretzels for our treat at the Zoom Happy Hour with friends this snowy Friday night, and we knew we would need a beer to go with them. We turned to our beer making neighbor, Andrew, who left some malt extract on our porch
Making crackers is easy but getting them to be uniform in thickness, and therefore crispiness, is the most difficult part, and the process might seem like a hassle, like baking cookies, to keep track of the time as you bake several sheets and get them all done just right. Using
Start with oatmeal, cooked, and you do this because, like us, something came up and it was noon before we came to eat breakfast and decided on lunch instead. Adjust my recipe below for whatever you added to your oatmeal and the type of oats. I used steel cut, nothing-quick-about-them,
An Austrian Baking Challenge: January 1, 2019 — Friends spending the holidays in Vienna sent photos of a germknödel – a stuffed dumpling dessert that my friend, Pat, has promised to make for me for years. She was earnest, I’m sure, in this promise because I have all the weird
A Swiss roll recipe from Jacques & Julia that is a very light mousse baked on parchment paper which gives the chocolate roulade the perfect Yule log texture. It is a very light, wet batter thinly filling a very shallow baking sheet – a cookie sheet with about 1/2 inch
Genoise as a Bunt Cake October 16, 2018 Prepare the bunt pan — coconut oil is a great way to grease an elaborately crevassed bunt pan. Anything but butter is the best prep for an easy release. After every fold and surface is greased, dust with fine almond powder. This
Raising a cake to its full potential at high altitude is a difficult project. I live at 5,280 feet above sea level, but want to be able to make good cakes. I want: to know what is in my desserts, to choose better ingredients than many commercial bakers, and to
A Sweet Bread in a Ring Recipe: For the dough: 250g strong white bread flour 5g salt 7g sachet fast-action dried yeast 50g unsalted butter, softened 105ml full-fat milk, at room temperature 1 medium egg, at room temperature For the filling: 90g unsalted butter, softened 70g light brown muscovado sugar