my husband brags about my cooking at work. he enjoys making the other men drool, i think*. it sounds like their wives either: arent good cooks; have no time to cook; hate cooking, because they all started salivating at the idea of home-baked bread, or a roast in the middle of the week for no reason other that 'i felt like cooking a roast', rather than on the weekend, because roasts happen on weekends. or coming home to the smell of cookies just finishing in the oven.
anyway, he's told them about the cheesecake i make, and they all said how good it sounded, so i made one last night for him to take in today. apparently everyone loved it. theres none left, at least. he even gave a piece to a customer who was there when they cut it, and he wolfed it down.
yay.
thing about the cheesecake is, im a bit curious about the recipe.
my mum got me a 3 year subscription to better homes and gardens magazine a couple christmases ago, and i watch it nearly every week, and thats where i got the recipe from. but they keep changing it. the recipe i use, which i either got from the magazine, or wrote down from the tv show - cant remember now - has 3 tubs of cream cheese and 8 eggs (there is nooooooooo way my kid is going near this cake. not until someone proves hes not allergic to eggs anymore), but the recipe on the website has 14 eggs. and i saw it somewhere else BHG related, with 4 tubs of cream cheese, and 8 eggs. i dont understand why though. all the other ingredients are exactly the same.
i always make it with 3 tubs, and 8 eggs. it comes out great, although i have to turn up the heat in the oven and cook it for longer than it says. so i dont understand the recipe change. why sometimes an extra 6 eggs? why sometimes a third more cheese?
maybe one day i'll understand... or maybe i'll just keep making it my way and putting a grin on my husband's face.
*there is also a girl in her early 20s who works there and called me a slave when hubby mentioned me making bread. i dont like her much. i ENJOY cooking, i ENJOY making my husband happy, and i prefer the taste of my bread to storebought. what about that makes me a slave?
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baking. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Thursday, December 4, 2008
i dont get it
my mother makes the most delicious brownies. the recipe is from supercook (which i cant find decent links to online, but as far as i can tell, it was put out as magazines, wth binders to hold it all. 8 volumes, each about 300pages. this is HUGE people) and my mother is the only person i know who can make them.
you think im joking.
mum's best friend has the recipe. she doesnt make them, because she can't. they fail. mum makes a batch every time we go over to their house and we leave most of them, because otherwise they never get to eat brownies.
my sister occasionally makes them. they dont taste anywhere near the same.
ive made them twice. yesterday, they failed. they taste great, but really, you should not have to scoop them out of the pan with a spoon, and still eat them one crumb at a time. i think they might have been overcookes... im not sure. the other time, i dont even remember what happened, but they didnt work.
various other people ahve tried and failed.
my mother is the only person i know who can make them. its ridiculous.
I WANT TO MAKE DECENT BROWNIES!!!!!!!!!
you think im joking.
mum's best friend has the recipe. she doesnt make them, because she can't. they fail. mum makes a batch every time we go over to their house and we leave most of them, because otherwise they never get to eat brownies.
my sister occasionally makes them. they dont taste anywhere near the same.
ive made them twice. yesterday, they failed. they taste great, but really, you should not have to scoop them out of the pan with a spoon, and still eat them one crumb at a time. i think they might have been overcookes... im not sure. the other time, i dont even remember what happened, but they didnt work.
various other people ahve tried and failed.
my mother is the only person i know who can make them. its ridiculous.
I WANT TO MAKE DECENT BROWNIES!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
bread addendum
so bread.. i lost my recipe card and jumped on here to get the recipe (KNEW there was a reaon for posting everything!) and realsie i messed up. i put the water on twice. fixed now.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
bread stuffs, raisin and otherwise
NORMAL
2 Tbsp (40ml) oil
2 1/2 cups hot water
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
10g dry yeast (3tsp)
2 tsp salt
3 cups plain flour
3 cups wholemeal flour
disolve brown sugar in water, add oil, salt, and yeast, leave to froth.
add plain flour, mix well. add enough wholemeal to turn into dough, knead on floured surface until smooth, cover in oiled bowl and rise to double.
punch down, knead again, divide in 2 and shape into loaves - either freeform or in loaf pans, rise to double again.
bake at 175C for 35min
WITH RAISINS
almost exactly the same:
add 2tsp cinnamon to yeast/sugar mix, add 1 cup sultanas (raisins) with flour. if they fall out while kneading, poke them back in.
in theory, you could add anything. havent tried it with other fruit yet. considering trying it with cheese and herbs.. but no fruit, of course.
2 Tbsp (40ml) oil
2 1/2 cups hot water
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
10g dry yeast (3tsp)
2 tsp salt
3 cups plain flour
3 cups wholemeal flour
disolve brown sugar in water, add oil, salt, and yeast, leave to froth.
add plain flour, mix well. add enough wholemeal to turn into dough, knead on floured surface until smooth, cover in oiled bowl and rise to double.
punch down, knead again, divide in 2 and shape into loaves - either freeform or in loaf pans, rise to double again.
bake at 175C for 35min
WITH RAISINS
almost exactly the same:
add 2tsp cinnamon to yeast/sugar mix, add 1 cup sultanas (raisins) with flour. if they fall out while kneading, poke them back in.
in theory, you could add anything. havent tried it with other fruit yet. considering trying it with cheese and herbs.. but no fruit, of course.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
blueberry muffins
when we went shopping yesterday, i noticed that there were punnets of blueberries in aldi. havent noticed them in there before.
"do you like blueberries love?"
"i like blueberry muffins, yes."
"well shall we get some blueberries and i can make you some muffins?"
i spent some time yesterday looking for recipes for lemonade, lemon sorbet, and blueberry muffins. fannie farmer has a recipe for lemon jelly, so that might come in handy.. found a lot of the same lemonade recipe online, and a lemon sorbet recipe thats basically frozen lemonade, so that should be good. blueberry muffins were a little harder. half the recipes looked odd, containing things like sour cream or unsweetened yoghurt, and the other half called for more blueberries than i had. i found a couple that looked ok, then i thought to look in fannie farmer. why didnt i look there to begin with? silly sarah.
the hardest thing to do was flouring the muffin tray. (i know from experience that greasing is not enough, and we dont have any patty-pans.) they cooked a little longer than the recipe suggested, because they just werent quite cooked. but they came out of the tray easily, and they smell fantastic. took one to hubby, who is painting the trim in the room now (hes so fantastic), and he said theyre delicious.
odd as it may sound, i have never eaten a blueberry before. im a very picky eater, and its not all to do with taste. some things i cant eat because of they way they feel. doesnt matter how good it tastes, if it feels weird in my mouth, i just cant eat it. (i love orange juice. cant eat oranges.) and blueberries look like they would feel very strange indeed. i was also suspicious of the taste. i cant stand strawberries, mangoes, raspberries, pears, pineapple, a lot of 'sweet' fruit actually. but hubby asked me to try it, so i cut a muffin in half, gave the remainder to the boy, and cautiously took a bite.
man, those things are JUICY! and not very evenly distributed in the batter. one half of the muffin was plain, the other half was 80%blueberry, with a little muffin around the edges. but they do in fact taste quite nice.
im slowly getting better about trying new foods. especially since i dont want my boy to be picky like me. he has enough trouble with things he CAN'T eat due to allergies, he doesnt need any more things he WON'T eat, just because. theres still a lot of stuff i wont eat, but im trying so hard to be good.
"do you like blueberries love?"
"i like blueberry muffins, yes."
"well shall we get some blueberries and i can make you some muffins?"
i spent some time yesterday looking for recipes for lemonade, lemon sorbet, and blueberry muffins. fannie farmer has a recipe for lemon jelly, so that might come in handy.. found a lot of the same lemonade recipe online, and a lemon sorbet recipe thats basically frozen lemonade, so that should be good. blueberry muffins were a little harder. half the recipes looked odd, containing things like sour cream or unsweetened yoghurt, and the other half called for more blueberries than i had. i found a couple that looked ok, then i thought to look in fannie farmer. why didnt i look there to begin with? silly sarah.
the hardest thing to do was flouring the muffin tray. (i know from experience that greasing is not enough, and we dont have any patty-pans.) they cooked a little longer than the recipe suggested, because they just werent quite cooked. but they came out of the tray easily, and they smell fantastic. took one to hubby, who is painting the trim in the room now (hes so fantastic), and he said theyre delicious.odd as it may sound, i have never eaten a blueberry before. im a very picky eater, and its not all to do with taste. some things i cant eat because of they way they feel. doesnt matter how good it tastes, if it feels weird in my mouth, i just cant eat it. (i love orange juice. cant eat oranges.) and blueberries look like they would feel very strange indeed. i was also suspicious of the taste. i cant stand strawberries, mangoes, raspberries, pears, pineapple, a lot of 'sweet' fruit actually. but hubby asked me to try it, so i cut a muffin in half, gave the remainder to the boy, and cautiously took a bite.
man, those things are JUICY! and not very evenly distributed in the batter. one half of the muffin was plain, the other half was 80%blueberry, with a little muffin around the edges. but they do in fact taste quite nice.
im slowly getting better about trying new foods. especially since i dont want my boy to be picky like me. he has enough trouble with things he CAN'T eat due to allergies, he doesnt need any more things he WON'T eat, just because. theres still a lot of stuff i wont eat, but im trying so hard to be good.
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