That is beautiful! – Massimo Bottura Kind words considering the mess in front of me…and the wasted hours behind me. Maybe I should explain what the original intention here was. As part of my recent obsession with thepastrydepartment.com, I was planning on trial running a pastry recipe for a lemon tart. Specifically, a recipe for making …
Month: July 2018
I just wanted a biscuit! Caramel biscuits, hazelnut shortbread, every one a disappointment. Maybe I’m to blame here. Maybe attaining the perfect coffee biscuit was just too lofty a goal. Or maybe, I just need something simpler, something, like Amaretti. The archetypal coffee biscuit. Conceived, according to legend, in village of Saranno, up in the …
For some reason, I’ve been playing with caramel for a fortnight. It’s part of living with the internet isn’t it, one minute your looking at how many ounces are in a gram, the next your marathonning behind-the-scenes interviews with the Breaking Bad cast. In this particular case, it was after dinner biscuits that started me …
Speculoos! Or what should have been Speculoos. This is more of a recipe review than a how-to. It’s a test between using ground caramel or toasted sugar for infusing a biscuit with caramel goodness. Thanks to seriouseats for the original recipe and inspiration for testing: Click below for the full recipe and evaluation, with all …
A lesson in pickling and plumbing! Giardiniera is what we have on the menu today. An Italian relish of sorts, it’s traditionally made using a mix of vegetables that are then preserved in vinegar or oil. Having recently been inspired to try my hand at some fermentation experiments, I’ve put a slightly lactic spin on …