Step-by-step Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Making Instructions with Photos, Ingredients & Tips. Rainbow Popsicles. Soft Seasoned Pretzels. I must be out of my mind. It seems that even the deep August heat can’t curb my constant craving for homemade carbohydrate treats. Last week I slaved over a pot of 350 degree vegetable oil to fry some fresh doughnuts and this week I hovered over a pot of boiling water cooking up some traditional soft pretzels. I will admit that these pretzels weren’t nearly as satisfying as the homemade doughnuts. I found the shaping and the subsequent boiling a little bit trying of my patience. Begrudgingly, the pretzels got made and adorned with grill seasoning instead of pretzel salt.
Do I sound cranky? I say give these pretzels a try if you have a lazy Saturday afternoon, sometime in cool, crisp late October, not (not!) For a much cooler treat check out my Blueberry Mango Frozen MiniPops over at FoodProof. Soft Seasoned Pretzels adapted from Gourmet, March 2004 Print this recipe! 1 heaping Tablespoon baking soda (add it to the boiling water just before throwing in the pretzel dough!) Au_gout: dark and delicious. I have become all about chocolate cake with chocolate frosting lately. There is something kind of zen about the whole process. From stirring up the batter to the time spent frosting a cake. A friend gave me her recipe for chocolate cake and it is so moist and dense. I have made this cake twice since she shared her recipe and now I have to share it with the rest of the world. Jill's Chocolate cake In a bowl over simmering water (or if you have a double boiler, use that) you will melt down 3 oz of unsweetened chocolate and then set that aside to cool.
If you are lucky someone will come into the kitchen and spy the chocolate and take a taste and then feel mildly foolish. On a piece of wax paper you will sift together 2 1/4 cups cake flour, 2 tsp baking soda and 1/2 a tsp of salt. Next you will cream 1/2 cup of slightly softened butter. Now the frosting I like to do comes from Joy of Cooking. Glazed and Braised: 9 Non-Traditional Recipes for Thanksgiving Turkey | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn. Homemade Baked Doughnuts & Chickpeas with Mushrooms Delicious links for 11.9.2010 | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn. Pacific NW | Pumpkin gnocchi offer simple comfort for the fall season. SOMETIMES CULINARY triumphs come in the humblest packages. Take the modest Italian dumplings known as gnocchi. Gnarly little knobs of nothing more than flour, eggs and sometimes vegetables, gnocchi are the most primitive form of pasta imaginable.
Yet, made correctly, they can have an ethereal goodness that defies their earthy nature. When I was the chef at Friday Harbor House in the early 1990s, I used to get flowers and vegetables from Nootka Rose Farm on Waldron Island. The produce was delivered via boat twice a week, and every time it arrived was like Christmas morning. The greens were crisp and usually sparkling with the well water in which they were rinsed. One late summer day when the boxes from Waldron arrived, I saw the yellow Finn potatoes and knew instantly that they would become potato gnocchi. As fate would have it, a group of Italian cyclists was staying at the inn that night, and they all ordered the gnocchi. Greg Atkinson is a chef instructor at Seattle Culinary Academy. Creative food craft ideas | Edible Crafts | CraftGossip.com. Halloween Party Treats.
Corn fritters. Here are some corn fritters. They are pretty popular in our house and I forget how easy they are to make. I used the recipe here (from everyday food) but then added green onions, some spices, and other things, but I don't remember what, this was a while ago and I make them different everytime. I have also made them with frozen corn just fine.Why are these so fun to make? They just are. It seems like the batter will be too thin and that there is no way to flip them, but it works out just fine.
I make them on our big flat griddle, with no extra oil—I'm not sure if this makes them a fritter. Whatever. Related to food, but with no photo, I made a brown betty (minus the currants which I couldn't find) from the Rustic Fruit Desserts books recently when I found myself up to my eyes in apples. Anyhoo, brown bettys are baked apple with a lot breadcrumbs (instead of a pie crust or topping) and usually a lot of butter and sugar. Icanonlybe. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites — Buns In My Oven. Walk away. No, wait. RUN away. What I am about to show is bad. It’s horrible and dangerous and terrible and completely, absolutely addicting. You think you’ll be able to eat just one of these little chocolate dipped pretzel sandwiches, but I’m telling you: That’s not possible.
It’s like the law of gravity, what goes up absolutely positively must come down. Or that rule about how you can’t fold one piece of paper in half more than 7 times no matter how hard you try. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I have a bit of a thing for chocolate and peanut butter. Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites recipe from Foodaphilia 1 cup creamy peanut butter2 tbsp softened butter1/2 – 1 cup powdered sugar3/4 – 1 cup brown sugarPretzels1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips Combine the peanut butter, butter, 1/2 cup of powdered sugar, and 3/4 cup of brown sugar in a mixer. Roll the mixture into small balls (about 1 tsp of the mixture for each ball).
Melt the chocolate in a double broiler or carefully in a microwave. Can Once-a-Month Cooking Really Work? A long time ago (summer 2007, in fact), I wrote about once-a-month cooking, in which a person basically spends one solid day once every four weeks or so preparing food for home use so that meal prep later on is much easier. A quick note: I’ve never actually done this before, but I have done big pieces of it.
I have prepared large quantities of food for the purpose of freezing it and then popping it out later as convenience food – my homemade bulk breakfast burritos are an example of this. On a few Saturdays, I’ve done several such batch productions at once, which probably add up to a month’s worth of meals but wasn’t explicitly planned as such. Since this is such a useful money-saving and time-saving idea, I thought I’d offer a big collection of useful resources to help you plan to do this type of thing, as well as my own plans for attempting this in the near future (mostly to stock up before Sarah heads back to work this winter).
Choosing recipes for this is actually quite fun. 10 Hot Breakfasts for Cold and Busy Mornings Recipe Roundup | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn.