by Suzi | Oct 22, 2010 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
How do you make a cake? We all know. You cream butter, then add sugar slowly. [If you start with the butter and sugar together you will have a difficult time getting proper emulsification and if my friend and baking maven Carole Walter ever finds out, you’ll get a...
by Suzi | Oct 21, 2010 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For yesterday’s blog of a Very Vanilla Layer Cake you need a superior chocolate frosting. Superior. Back to Baking by Flavor and in the chocolate chapter there is Buttery Chocolate Frosting. It’s a bit dangerous to say that a frosting is the best you’ve ever had. I’ve...
by Suzi | Oct 20, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Have you ever wanted that classic white cake of your childhood? Very white? Very vanilla? With a great chocolate frosting? Oh, you may not even know quite what I’m talking about. Your age needs to have a first digit that is bigger than 3, because I’m talking about a...
by Suzi | Oct 17, 2010 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
You’ve probably never heard of falernum. I’ve only encountered in lately in cocktail books where it appears as the third or fourth ingredient. Pronounced “fah-learn-um”, falernum is not something you find in the lab scene a of Harry Potter movie. Although, there is...
by Suzi | Oct 15, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
Meat loaf. The food, not the singer. Brian really enjoys meat loaf. It’s his #1 comfort food, aside from mimosas and brownies. Meat loaf has legs, with one loaf providing multiple meals. Hot out of the oven with baked potato. Or sliced the next day on great bread with...
