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Jan
27
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I was excited to get to brush off my college french for this month’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge. Then I realized that being able to ask for the location of the library or discotheque isn’t of much use when making pastry. Oh well.
The January 2011 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Astheroshe of the blog accro. She chose to challenge everyone to make a biscuit joconde imprime to wrap around an entremets dessert.
Is biscuit …
Jan
24
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Last weekend we were invited to a dinner party by our soon-to-be-wed friends Ron and Ashley. Ron’s parents were out of town and he promised a serious rager. So, TD liberated my varsity jacket of its protective plastic garment bag and claimed it as his “costume.” To make-up for my husband’s cross-dressing, I baked up a batch of Nutella brownies as a host-gift.
Oh, Nutella.
This really is a mini-post because the brownie recipe is, of course, my tried and true, …
Jan
20
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On the first Saturday of December, I lost a bet. Again. So, now that the holiday dust has cleared I figured it was time to pay-up.
When it came to deciding exactly how to make-up my debt, I knew I had just the thing. While I had already bookmarked the recipe before the madness of the end of the year, not one but two people sent me the same recipe saying that it “sounded like me.”
Boy was I glad the recipe …
Jan
13
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Valentine’s Day is about a month away. Yes a month.
While in college, I wrote a rather cynical article for the school newspaper about Valentine’s Day. The article went on and on about the commercially incited evils of sending cards and chocolate and how when it comes to the big day, we are all pretty much damned if we do and damned if we don’t. Sometimes I wish I could go back and tell my 21-year-old self to lighten up a …
Jan
8
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Yes, I know it isn’t Thursday. But, we missed the first Thursday of the month so I’m making up for lost time. Consider this Saturday school.
One of my goals for the new year is to work my way through Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. While I bought this book last summer, it sat on the shelf for a couple of months until I was reminded of its genius for last month’s Daring Bakers’ Stollen Challenge.
I don’t have much experience …
Jan
8
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Happy New Year! I just love new beginnings.
Each year TD and I sit down on the last day of the last month and write out our goals for the coming year. We don’t do resolutions; just categorical goals covering different parts of our lives. For me, it is much more palatable to look forward to working towards something than away from it.
For this first time, I’ve included The Misanthropic Hostess in my goals for 2011. I’ve kept them simple and …