The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap 2011

Bloggers I Follow: FoodBuzz

This Sunday I would like to take a moment to talk about a forum where I have met many worthwhile bloggers that I ended up adding to my feed reader: FoodBuzz. FoodBuzz is a food blogging community with literally thousands of members. Tons sign up every day. You can establish a full logon or sign [...]

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A Word on Baking Gear – Part 2: Rolling Pins

The right gear makes all the difference. Yeah, no kidding… For years I was using an old, wooden rolling pin that had actually developed cracks in its main part because “somebody” had stuck it in the dishwasher once or twice. [*sigh*] Nothing I rolled out looked even remotely even, I had to make adjustments [...]

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Home-Made Puff Pastry Shells

I have been on a laminated dough binge lately, and when I realized how much easier it was in a kitchen that was NOT 90 degrees, like the professional one I used to make this at (when we still had our bakery), I got downright adventurous. What else could we make with this? Thumbing [...]

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Lemon Extract

I usually do not endorse specific products. In the case of gear I might recommend something that I am used to using so that others may cut a corner and get it without having to make the same personal (and sometimes painful) experiences, as I have – for example in the case of really [...]

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A Word on Baking Gear – Part 1: The Notebook

I have been asked repeatedly by friends what kind of “gear” I am using for my baking. I have been doing it so long that the answer to this question has changed over time. I used to think that certain things were indispensable, and these same things have now been sitting in my cupboards [...]

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