Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
It’s the most bakingest time of the year! And naturally, we’re in our kitchens, because when you can’t figure out what else to get for the people who have everything, you always know that you can count almost always count on a cookie being a well-received holiday gift. I give them to almost everybody in…
I was thinking that I posted my bakeable milk chocolate chips from scratch with cacao butter and cocoa powder like a year ago. That’s when I actually went back and looked, and I realized it was actually like two. The recipe is well overdue for an overhaul, especially since I have learned so much about chocolate…
Christmas is done, and we’re heading towards the end of 2014. It’s been a heck of a ride to Christmas time, between crushing deadlines, work, and cold and flu season. Finally come Boxing-day, we’ve all found a bit of breathing space and we’re all loafing on the sofa like we’re at the bitter end of…
It used to be that the fall season was heralded by back to school sales, some lovely apples, and the changing of the leaves. Now I know that winter is coming when I see my first Instagram photo of a pumpkin spice latte. Within hours, the internet becomes full of Pumpkin Spice Everything and I’m…
Are you looking for a dessert that will knock people’s socks off? This is it. Yup. This one. Bam, baby. It’s not just grapefruit season in the south! Meyer lemons? Also in, in giant big buckets. If you don’t know, a Meyer lemon is a cross between a lemon and a Mandarin orange. Don’t look so…
It was a cold day in December, and I had glorious visions of bonding with my three year old son over the time-honoured traditions of Christmas cookie-making. We were bent over the rolled out dough. Flour gently dusted everything. His little fingers oh-so-carefully lifted the gingerbread man we just cut and set it on the…
I love cookie-making with oil, because you get a light and perfect crisp cookie every time without the shenanigans sometimes involved using butter or margarine. Make no mistake, gingersnaps are not snappy if they are soft! Yet when you bake a butter or margarine cookie too long, sometimes they get a little too hard. Apple…
It took several tries, but we got a solid chocolate chip that survived the bake test! Yay! It’s soft and sweet and richly chocolatey. I wanted to use a more natural sweetener but it’s going to take a bit of balancing. At least now got a workable starting point. You may be thinking, why would…
And it is old fashioned! Well, kind of. I’ve been gloating over a cache of heirloom recipes, but this recipe of mine was actually a fluke. The original recipe called for both brown and granulated white sugar. I completely forgot to add the granulated sugar. Didn’t even realize until later. Didn’t miss it! I haven’t…