April 12, 2009
· Filed under pancakes, spiced stuff · Tagged banana, breakfast, cinnamon, easy, food, fruit, nutmeg, recipe
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.
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March 1, 2009
· Filed under cake · Tagged breakfast, brown sugar, cinnamon, coffee cake, easy, food, options, recipe, walnuts
Recently, while reading Vintage Cookbooks, I decided to pull out one of my old cookbooks. Since I’ve been going through a phase of wanting to throw every excess thing away (especially books) in preparation for my potential return to university, I figured I should try baking something from it to see if it was worth keeping.
I have two old cookbooks: one is from the very early 1900s but it’s in storage;
The book with the original recipe
the other is an old Duncan Hines recipe book – last copyright 1946 – that I literally found on the street that has been sitting in my bookshelves unused ever since. In other words, I’ve had this book for nearly
6 years and never baked a thing from it. But I was really hoping that it would prove to be worth the space since it entertains me to no end with it’s peculiar salads, it’s essential cocktail recipes, and it’s near complete disregard for what is now considered healthy. (I may have to write more posts about that, a la Vintage Cookbooks, just because I find them so funny.)
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January 25, 2009
· Filed under muffins, tips and tricks · Tagged apple, breakfast, cinnamon, easy, food, fruit, options, recipe
Last night, Brad and I went over to his sister’s house so that his brother-in-law could help me with some of the math I’ve been studying for the GRE. We were a little worried about inviting ourselves but his sister told his mom (his mom is the only one who openly shows emotion on a regular basis so she’s always the middleperson) that she hoped we wouldn’t stop coming over after I was done with the GRE.
One of the things I’m really terrible at is fractions, which may sound kind of ridiculous coming from someone who loves to bake. And there is a certain comfort in fractions – they make more sense to my visual brain than decimals. It’s just the crazy things they do to each other in mathematic equations that confuse me, because I want them to stand on their own.
So I’ve been concentrating on one of my shortcuts in an effort to get myself used to playing with fractions, a shortcut that I wanted to share with you.
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January 14, 2009
· Filed under donuts, spiced stuff · Tagged breakfast, cinnamon, donuts, easy, food, nutmeg, options, pumpkin, recipe
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
ManPants and I are a little obsessed with baked items made with pumpkin. It’s not the reason we love fall so much, but it is definitely high on the list.
Unfortunately, I didn’t have a recipe for pumpkin donuts. Fortunately, this meant my first true experiment – attempting to combine my pumpkin muffins with a pumpkin-less donut recipe.
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January 4, 2009
· Filed under muffins, spiced stuff · Tagged breakfast, brown sugar, cinnamon, food, ginger, pumpkin, recipe
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
I confess: this isn’t so experimental. It is in the sense that the delicate chemical interactions of baking always require some care, and that I see my baking as edible chemistry experiments. But ManPants is thoroughly addicted to these and so requests them every chance he gets. He doesn’t even have to speak; he has a look that says, “pumpkin muffins, please.”
I’m surprised I don’t have the recipe memorized yet. But I do have some shortcuts.
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December 11, 2008
· Filed under bread · Tagged banana, banana bread, breakfast, dessert, food, recipe
Before I start all of my Christmas baking, I had to make one last treat specifically for Brad and I.
We tend to buy three bananas and eat only one, so I always have a supply of frozen bananas.
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