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Posted by William on February 26th, 2010, at 8:38 am
I’ve covered several chocolate chip cookie types so far and thought that now would be a good time to review how to tweak the ingredients of cookies to make different styles. The first cookie recipe we tried, the Nestle Tollhouse cookie, was a good start, and it got even better with a bit of tweaking. [...]
Posted by William on December 15th, 2009, at 4:28 am
These cookies are the third and final chocolate chip cookie by Alton Brown. The first two were the chewy and the thin.
Asking me to rank these cookies is like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. Like the parent, I can’t say which cookie I love the most (but if I was the parent, [...]
Posted by William on December 3rd, 2009, at 2:35 pm
Not only was there no turkey, but there was also no pies this Thanksgiving either. As my father was taking care of the British style dinner, my mother countered with a French dessert, a Tarte aux Poires.
This tart is a simpler version of those commonly found in French patisseries. The elaborate versions are sometimes made [...]
Posted by William on November 12th, 2009, at 12:37 pm
There is something a bit obvious about combining two of my favorite foods into one dish. But being obvious doesn’t make it any less delicious.
When I look for a dessert or sweet snack, I tend to fixate on the chocolate chip cookie. When a cookie is not available (alas), I am generally quite content with [...]
Posted by William on October 27th, 2009, at 9:21 am
I’m going to talk cookies again. No complaints? Good. Let’s forge onward.
Thin cookies are not normally a favorite. Most are dry and crumbly and lack consistency. It’s not surprising that most people gloss over thin cookies and move on to the chewy or cakey ones. Overlooking this recipe would be wrong, wrong, wrong. These are [...]
Posted by William on September 10th, 2009, at 11:59 am
Now we move to the dessert portion of this weeks posts: The classic French crêpes. As I mentioned the other day, a crepe is basically a thin French pancake traditionally served as a dessert.
Outside of France, I often see the crepe batter used as a galette batter. This, while not strictly traditional, is not necessarily [...]
Posted by William on August 4th, 2009, at 11:30 am
I love foods that fit into the Breakfast, Snack, AND Dessert categories. The way I ate these, I might as well have considered them a Main Dish.
Despite putting away over a dozen on my own, I’m not the biggest fan of doughnuts. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing bad about them, but I’m sorta [...]
Posted by William on June 8th, 2009, at 7:06 am
The last time we indulged my chocolate chip cookie obsession, we looked at the Nestle Toll House recipe. Though I ate those for many years I was never completely satisfied. I always thought that, with a bit of tinkering, the recipe could be altered to produce a better cookie. The problem was that I didn’t [...]
Posted by William on May 18th, 2009, at 10:52 am
I am not shy about my love of chocolate chip cookies. I love ‘em. I can’t get enough of that carby-chewy-chocolaty combo. I will try almost any kind of cookie—sugar, oatmeal, etc.—but my love affair begins and ends with chocolate chip cookies.
I have long been on the search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. It’s [...]
Posted by William on May 1st, 2009, at 6:45 am
Humor me for a moment… let’s play a game called combining three good things into one unique treat.
Good thing number one:
Chocolate
This is a good start. It goes with lots of things. Milk or dark, it doesn’t matter, you already have a following.
Good thing number two:
Salt
Enough said.
Good thing number three:
Bacon
Wait, what? Back up a minute. Really? [...]
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