I’ve been wanting to get involved in the Royal Foodie Joust* (see the Foodie Blogroll thing on the right) for awhile but before this month either the ingredients were too precious for me to play around with or I just didn’t have the time. 
And I almost didn’t have the time this month – I forgot about it until 2 weeks ago, but we were busy preparing for a family trip, and then when we returned we were so busy catching back up on work that the week just flew past – but it kept floating around in the back of my mind, so I decided to try anyway, even if I couldn’t actually enter the contest. Luckily for me, the deadline was extended a few days, so today I gathered up my ingredients and all of the random possibilities that had been parading through my mind. The result totally surprised me! Read the rest of this entry »
Cherry Pie
Once again, it has been awhile since I have baked anything. Since I will be starting grad school at the end of August, you might as well get used to it. *sigh*
But I was commissioned to bake dessert for tomorrow’s Father’s Day celebration, so I finally had a chance to try something I have been wanting to do for a couple of weeks: a cherry pie. Read the rest of this entry »
Long-Overdue Update
May has been a month non-conducive to baking. Thus, as you can see, the utter lack of updates until the corner of June is in sight. Read the rest of this entry »
Dirty Cookies
Brad requested chocolate chip cookies again. Having been reminded myself of how delicious they are, I couldn’t refuse. But I could do a little experiment with an ingredient I’ve been wanting to try.
Experiments in Wasp Repellant, Day 12: Success?
Though the weather is still vacillating between winter-y and actual spring, there have been a few days of excellent sunshine. Brad and I have been able to take a few walks and even meander around the ponds of our apartment complex spinning tales to each other about exactly what the ducks and geese are up to. We even saw the first ducklings of the year today, a brood of 11 hatched by one of our favorite ducks, Tuffy.
Banana Pancakes
Brad and I both woke up late this morning. He’s the kind of person who wakes up at 7:30 on a regular basis without an alarm clock, while I’m the kind who could happily sleep 10 hours a night and still want a nap later, so when my alarm went off at 8:30 and he was still lying motionless next to me, I kept hitting snooze until he got up – at 9:30. If he’d gotten up earlier, I would have had to get up too so that he wouldn’t starve while waiting for the promised pancakes. It was lovely that both of us got to sleep in.
Old-School Goodness
When you’ve been forced to take an extended break from baking yummy sweets like I have, you just have to dive back in with something classic. So when I took a little time out today from practicing driving, making music, working on sales and tape construction, watching my niece’s games, and writing both blogposts that I’ve promised to others and blogposts that I’ve promised to myself, I decided to make chocolate chip cookies.
There is not a lot of experimentation to be done with chocolate chip cookies that hasn’t already been done.
(Plus, the kind I make come from a copyrighted recipe, no alterations. I don’t want anyone stealing my work so I won’t do that to anyone else either.)
Tomorrow, the plan is to stir it up a little again and make banana pancakes.
Experiments in Wasp Repellant, Day 3
Brad and I went for a walk this afternoon. It was a lovely warm day, with a few random bugs around.
But not a single dive-bombing wasp in sight.
Perhaps they are still in hiding or were killed off by the recent sudden dips in temperature but I am hopeful…
Experiments in Wasp Repellant
There hasn’t been a whole lot of baking going on here at Experiments in Baking. I’ve just been too busy and/or too exhausted to even curl up with a cookbook and find something to wrestle (though I have managed to wrestle some stingrays in my dreams). Excessive work always comes in waves for me, and I’ve been riding the crest since the last post.
But yesterday, I was presented with a possibility for another experiment similar to Auntie Rayna’s Magic Acne Cure in that it is an experiment that is NOT meant to be eaten.
It’s Spring Alright
It’s that time again, the time when the sun is so warm and inviting, I wish that I had a backyard so I could dig some soil and get my hands dirty. Instead, I finally pulled my alpine strawberry out of the closet where it spent the winter avoiding the freezing temperatures; it looks pretty sad and I’m not sure if it’s going to make it. 
I never could get the watering schedule right.
