Paper Chef is a fun little cooking event in the food blogosphere that Owen at Tomatilla has modeled after Iron Chef. This weekend launches Paper Chef #7, requiring participants to create a dish containing: medjool dates, honey, buttermilk and eggs. Julie at A Finger in Every Pie (oh my!) will virtually sip and taste [...]
If I was a smarter cookie I would have had a waffle iron in the dorms. My roommate and I were the kind of industrious girls who would scrape together the fantasy of rice crispy treats out of rice crispees from the cereal bar in the cafeteria… so its not like we weren’t thinking! [...]
I was watching an episode of Good Eats one day when the idea of using dry ice in the kitchen presented itself. Alton was looking for a way to fast freeze strawberries in the kitchen. The faster the freeze, the smaller your ice crystals inside of the fruit. Why would you want [...]
The last few days have felt a little hectic and simply have speed by way too quickly. Perhaps it has to do with munching on these cookies? Work’s been a little bit full, with a couple of high school and middle school tours of our lab thrown in the last week to keep [...]
Maki of I Was Just Very Hungry is hosting the 13th Is My Blog Burning event featuring cupcakes. These events work as a show-n-tell event for foodies, allowing us to reveal to everyone what our inspiration for the moment is, following the announced theme. The host is submitted the link or pictures and [...]
Last time I made caramel, I got stung and it clumped up and crystalized on me making me respect the perfected product more.
Looking through used bookstores recently has impressed on me how strong my visual memory is from my childhood. The Silver Palate cookbook made me smile, but not as big as catching a glimpse of the blue spine of Gourmet’s Menu Cookbook. I have also run across a selection of titles from the Time [...]
Our lab is having a spring cleaning party tomorrow afternoon. Too bad its not really spring yet, but it is a good excuse to make incentive cookies like these chewy chocolate cookies. The added nuts lend a nice saltiness, and these cookies cool down to reveal a chewy center studded with silky chocolate slivers [...]
Ok, so maybe they do look like zombies… wouldn’t you? Must be all that sugar…
Peg and Ellen asked me to help them spice up our Groundhog’s Day celebrations at work today. In honor of a coworker who is actually from Punxsutawney, we were going all out this year. Given that I’m abstaining from [...]
There is much going on in the world of sweet sushi. A google search brought up more tasty tidbits that have simply knocked me speechless. Really:
ok, I’ve shaken off the stun spell, enough to yell: KOO-KI SUSHI! This is what i want to do when I grow up! Buttery caramel, [...]
