Jumat, 21 Februari 2014

Daring Bakers Sugar Cookies

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The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What the Fruitcake?!” Mandy challenged everyone to make Decorated Sugar Cookies based on recipes from Peggy Porschen and The Joy of Baking.


 

Chocolate huevo-menos cake

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There were moments when she was pregnant with Belle, when I was alone in the House and everything was still out. Lying in the sofa hands cupped around my hard belly. Breathe it in and out as useful as possible. Waiting for me and try patience. And I was wondering who would be the small person.

Then with a punch, Belle would give a kick with all his strength to anything in its path with a stunning lack of rhythm. Then, she gorgotear and casually swim wash their hands on my belly in broad gestures.

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Four years later, he wished he had written down who was that person. I'm pretty sure what I thought was nothing like the most beautiful truth. It has a sense of finely sensitive design. You have stripes work well with hearts but not polka dots and roses do not all agree. She loves all dolly things - strollers, baby changing tables and bottles. But at the same time you can build a tower of media. Above all, it reminds me every day how important being observation and curiosity in the power of the human soul. It smells of everything from food to scarves. She wondered about the clouds, snow, sky and God.
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Every day is a research for her. Dessert is one of their particular specialties. Why is that some cakes aren't chocolate it? Why is that some cakes are deficient in frosting it? By which a single layer of cake?

Belle love of chocolate is something than expected body during pregnancy. Wasn't much of a person sweet until Belle resided within me. During my pregnancy, which fanaticize about the decadent chocolate cupcakes. Belle, is a woman who likes the idea of visiting his grandparents, in the magical land of Cincinnati, where cupcakes are great for breakfast.

This summer we have experienced with the perfect chocolate cake. While I have more experience, chocolate tasting, I think that Belle has a natural view. We are a perfect team. We tasted cakes. I spoke, perhaps idly, the requires a balance between sweetness and bitterness; moisture and density. However, Belle really summed it up, "has to be super chocolate and good".

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Our first attempt at this cake was one that was basically a big brownie. When topped with cocoa butter cream, Belle was very satisfied.

When birthday time arrived yesterday, I turned to this cake. Parenting is something that is more difficult when we pay attention to what you are doing. Probably should have only made the cake that she liked it, but instead I decided to increase the buttermilk so I would have a moister result of cake - how. After all, sometimes a mother has to make decisions for their children.

I also decided to use three meringues, because sometimes a mother comes to break the rules. First separated the two layers with Marshmallow Buttercream, adds a layer of breadcrumbs and then some with vanilla cream and then iced with cream cheese cacao-crema butter. The result was a cake that your dentist you call to make an appointment.

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How to cut the cake, I waited to hear his remarks. He sat his slice with almost religious fervor. She refrained from paper napkin so she can lick the icing of the fingers. He then asked seconds and third parties (even if both applications were denied). And then she played.

In the past four years, one of the few things I've learned about parenting is that it is often the silence of minutes, when socks are being raised or collection that kids share blocks. Today, when the House was quiet and beautiful and I were cleaning his room, she said, "there was much more icing on the cake." I am happy".

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Recipe:
Chocolate cake:
Cream together:
4 ounces softened cream cheese
4 T softened butter
1 3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar

In a microwave, melt 1/4 cup chocolate chips (or more)

In the bowl of the mixer, add:
1 cup milk
1 T instant coffee granules
2 teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon cider vinger
melted chocolate chips

In a bowl, combine:
1 3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup cocoa
1 1/2 t baking powder
1 1/2 t baking soda
1 teaspoon salt

Add dry ingredients to wet, at intervals of 1/2 cup, mixing as you go.

Baking trays 2-9 inches that have been oiled and floured (or cocoaed) to 350 for 25-30 minutes.

Meringues:
I have a little mystical / alchemistry - as with the meringues, so recipes here there... all I can say is that you for the cream cheese icing, I used 4 oz butter (soften), 4 oz of cheese (softened), splash of coffee, cream and then add sugar in powder and cocoa with wild abandon. The others were a little fuzzy.

 

Mini-cupcakes chocolate jam

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Perspective.

I've been thinking a lot about this word. A second stop and really think about it. That the roll of the tongue. It tries to tell quickly that the "s" swallow it. Then it say it a little slower. Roll the "r" and then ramp up as the "s". Then there is that you spent the last minute not thinking anything else that sounds. He was putting into practice the concept of that Word. You found a moment where everything was in prospect.

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I can't say that it is something that I put into practice with a certain frequency. For most of the past two months, I almost lost a concept so noble as a perspective view. Work has consumed me, I eaten from inside and leaving me completely dissatisfied. In a poor response to the pressure, I have me wrapped in even more work waiting for the mountain of papers that somehow inure and protect my soul. Hopefully sometime that month, I realized that my soul does not need more protection than the prospect. That a day out, a night away from the work of the office, would mean nothing more than my own sanity. Or, that the day of the snow to make a small batch of cupcakes with your friends is much more cathartic and much more real than any work has to offer.

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But sometimes, when you are standing on the edge, you can find your heading. It's when you back, way back, when you see the wide possibilities forward, view the lines from the perspective of being so obvious. You can see your gift in your peripheral vision but to the front, small but nevertheless, their future reassuringly beacons you forward.

Mini-cupcakes chocolate jam:
adapted from a recipe from cookie shop

Combine:
1/4 cup of flour
T 3 chestnut flour
Pinch of baking soda
Pinch of baking powder
Salt
4 power T cocoa
sugar ¼
2 t brown sugar

Add:
4 tablespoons butter
1 egg
Two drops of coffee
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
4 T olive oil
1 T jam

Bake in tins of mini-Magdalena (buttered and floured) for about 8 minutes. Cover with chocolate ganache.

 

Vegan Waffles

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Quiero que me gustan arepas, I do it. When she was pregnant with Belle, my husband would make plans for tomorrow Saturday morning pancake. In their world, we would be all work together to make pancakes, music playing softly in the background. Pope would go crazy. Belle and I sat down in anticipation of table in our voices. Then, we would be all Chair until large piles of pancakes, dipped in Maple syrup, Belle embraced in the lap of his father. With pancakes described this way, who wouldn't appreciate them.

If you don't have any offspring, you think that you can make plans; that you can predict who will be. You can not. Belle was intensely dislike pancakes.
J - I thought it was a case of tasting pancakes at least 10 times. He then thought that 15 times it might be necessary. Let's say that it is a couple of years and neither mother nor daughter have come to love the pancakes.

Although the girls of the family must be very susceptible to marketing. Take the flour mixture and milk, and put it into a waffle maker and well, we're sold. Sold, I say. If I decide to discuss this matter, I think it's because waffles are soft pancake-iness wrapped in crunchy happiness, gold. It is the crisp, plain and simple.
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Recipe:
Vegan Yeasted waffles from whole-grain oats

This recipe makes the best waffles vegan that we've never done.

I am passing this recipe to yeastspotting of wild yeast.

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Slushie Shirley Temple or very cold Lady Vortex

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Slushy Shirley Temple


As the only son, didn't have the benefit of comparison.  My behavior, my reactions, my nature could not be referenced against another incarnation of my parents.  And is my inexperience maybe that leads me on account of the many differences between Maybelle and Tigerlily.  Where one is cautious, the intrepid.  Where one is salted, the other sweet - both behavior and taste.



Today, that we were reading a new series of Anthony McCall Smith about precious Ramotswe Botswana.  When the father of precious remembers being confronted by a lion, I asked the girls what they would do to them had been in the shoes of Obed.?  Maybelle considered his actions, while Tigerlily shouted that he ate it.  Replied, "I think what a lion would eat."  Then, she replied, "use my weapon and then convert it into meat."  Maybelle remained silent, shrewdly reflecting on her course.  Finally he said, "is seeking refuge and BARRICADE in".  And there are, it is often an action, while the other is potential energy.



On other occasions, there are reactions are surprisingly similar.  We have all been in the throes of evil cold vortex that has made me think of Jack Frost as a charming kind and warm heart, less agoraphobics.  We are beginning to feel that the time is us condemned to house arrest. I have moved from mother to camp counselor, filling every moment with something, anything, that could prevent the mutiny.  After all, if I had to walk the plank of the band, you could freeze until I fell.



So, today, when NPR posted on experiments of cooling, we have to go.  A little ginger ale, grenadine, water of roses and of course, incredibly, inappropriately, ridiculously cold and you have a drink that devoured both of my girls with equal vigor.   The video at the end of the post of NPR for directions.
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Whole sweet potato waffles

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False seems to have become a real fact of life these days. You think about it. It is not that they are intended to be on facebook or twitter. In fact, on the internet, not be your true I can be an important point of sale (ruth bourdain anyone?). And, as food, certainly there are all colors and artificial flavors. But, even with the new movement "food of truth", it thinks in pictures. Many of these photos have been artificially lit style and pampering to less than one inch of its existence. For years, there have been accusations of psychologists that the plethora of models airbrushed, surgically enhanced in magazines and video games would make that young people can not appreciate the normal female body. I'm beginning to think that the power of photography of food affects it see how regular food.

Multigrain Waffles
Multigrain Waffles

These waffles come from its iron looking a bit like a tiled courtyard. Not the enough fact in Italy, doesn't care. More like that at the edge of the patio fell apart after enduring too many winters one cold. And, if they are not accustomed to whole grains, perhaps concerned by its mottled nature. And then there is the type of unfortunate orange of the mass. The vendor call me terracotta. In other words, are not the Queen of the dance of waffles; on the other hand, the wallflowers make waffles seems to Miss America. And then here is where my brain thinks conspiracy societal. I thought that in fact they are so ugly that I wonder if they taste good. What? Why? My brain somehow puts Visual data in front of smell when it came to food. Who heck cares what it seems? I guess that a food stylist / part of my brain lizard. Luckily my husband, who abstains from all kinds of food porn in principle, is immune to this stupidity. The entrenched and quickly testifies its exquisiteness.

Recipe:
Sweet potato of whole grain waffles
In a blender combine:
250 grams of boiled sweet potato
1 serum
2 eggs
2 heaping T oil

Cook 100 g cereals bob hot red mill plus 3 seeds of chia T with almonds 1 cup milk. Cool and add moisture. Mix.

In a large bowl combine:
145 g of whole wheat flour
Brown 40 g flour
15 g flax seeds
10 g oat bran
60 g corn flour
1 T yeast
1 t baking soda
1 t salt
2 t brown sugar
White sugar 2 T

Add the wet to the cold. Mix effusively. Let stand covered in refrigerator overnight. Bring to room temperature. Add 1/2-1 cup more whey of milk (or almond milk) If you wish to create a mass of similar consistency. Cook at a Waffle Baker in the Middle for about 5-7 minutes. These take more in cooking that we have done other waffles. Our hits when you think they are. So we went through three regular cycles.

Kamis, 20 Februari 2014

Paper advent calendar

Type = "html" >Bauhaus Advent Calendar in the run-up to Thanksgiving, that had my mind on many things, most of them not food. I certainly ate.  And they did eat.  And they did eat.  But I found my mind fight against the tensions, pressures and other banalities.  Finally, my mind began to look at lunch bags.

We have had a number of lunch boxes around.  On Halloween, we had shot us a rotten crazy party that many a mouth within a ten mile radius.  In order to encourage guests to take the sugar House and away from our own children, we had an activity where the children can decorate lino-impreso handmade bags.  It was these leftover white bags that sang to me.

Cooking always has been a joy for me; they enrich me its inherent creativity and its relationship of coexistence.  However, the scene of food blogging, its competence and its referent, were difficult. I always felt that I was in high school.  However, in the midst of radio silence, it was certainly cooking.  But instead of trying to find new combinations and frankly win followers invisible, unknown worship, I went back to the regulars.  I was only cooking for me and my family.  And then I also let my many interests live unnoticed.

Doing things, in whatever form that takes, it continues to enrich myself at home.  He continued to write and photograph.  But, I've been doing it for myself. And this reminds me of the moment, where it stood at the door of the pantry, as if it has a presentiment of a conquest.  The bags were sitting on the shelf.  Lets face it.  They were asking for it.

A couple of hours, a pair of scissors and a little bondage, and voila, a bag of paper advent calendar.  The emergence of spare began a whirlwhind of more decisions of Advent.  Felt and mason jars were mistreated, to be sure.  The children certainly can now count up to 24.  If they are doing anything other than a day from a portion of the month of December, it could be a problem.  But, Hey, why you put too much pressure on young people?

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