“What is all this stuff?” “My feet are cold!” “Hmm, I don’t think there will be any grilling tonight!”
17
Jan
Oh, these were sooooo good! Master Chow said, “this tastes like restaurant food!” Then he asked me to put it on the “repeat list.” One of my top two favorite cooking magazines is Cuisine at Home (the other is Fine Cooking). This recipe is from their April 2003 issue, and I tried it because I […]
9
Jan
Above, a photo of one of my favorite meals, bar none! If I were rescued after being stuck on a desert island, my first meal would probably be hash(ed) brown potatoes and two eggs, with runny yolks. Oh, yum.About 30 years ago, my mum found a recipe for hash browns in a woman’s magazine, probably […]
7
Jan
Alice Medrich’s Luscious Vodka Chocolates
Posted by Madam Chow Published in Alice Medrich, candy, chocolate, cranberryOne of my favorite cookbook authors is Alice Medrich. I credit her, back in the 1980s, to with awakening me to the marvel of truly fine chocolate. I was a graduate student in the Bay Area, and one day I decided to walk into one of her Cocolat chocolate shops. I bought a white chocolate […]
3
Jan
Another Winning Cookie: Dorie Greenspan’s Chocolate Chunkers
Posted by Madam Chow Published in cookies, Dorie GreenspanA Sea of Chocolate Heaven These cookies accomplished a number of things: (1) they helped me clean out my pantry of an alarming amount of chocolate that I needed to use up; (2) they kept me interested in Christmas baking; and, (3) they put me into a chocolate coma. Can life get much better than […]
3
Jan
Cooking Tip: If You Don’t Have Access to Bleached Flour
Posted by Madam Chow Published in UncategorizedI found this tip on A Merrier World, via Rose Levy Berenbaum’s blog. This may be helpful to those of you living outside of the United States, where you may not have access to bleached flour. Thanks to Kate from A Merrier World for her discovery: For those of you around the world who do […]
30
Dec
Even though I didn’t participate in December’s Daring Bakers Challenge, I have been baking up a storm. Baking my least favorite things to bake, cookies. This year, I decided to take the bull by the horns and pretty much jettisoned virtually every cookie I had baked previously, with a couple exceptions. Those exceptions were due […]
30
Dec
When you chop nuts or chocolate, do you find that the pieces jump off your cutting board? You can always place the items to be chopped in a plastic bag or kitchen towel, and then whack it with a rolling pin. But what if you don’t want to do that? A few years ago, I […]
30
Dec
I was not able to participate in this month’s challenge, but be sure to check out the Daring Baker’s blogroll to view the beautiful Yule Logs! And a very Happy New Year to everyone!
17
Dec
Someone around here has the good sense to take a nap. Like many of you, I’m busy cooking, cleaning, baking, decorating, etc. My least favorite thing to bake are . . . cookies. Yep, cookies. And I’m baking dozens of them. I realized that I was bored out of my gourd baking the same old […]
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