Contemplations and Concotions

Daring Bakers – Tiramisu

holly — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:36:25 +0000

The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession.

Daring Bakers – Nanaimo Bars

holly — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:11:16 +0000

The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose Gluten-Free Graham Wafers and Nanaimo Bars as the challenge for the month. The sources she based her recipe on are 101 Cookbooks and www.nanaimo.ca.

Cannoli – Daring Bakers November.

holly — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 04:43:59 +0000

Fee Fie Pho!

holly — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:42:32 +0000

I love Pho. It’s one of my favorite meals. Honestly I could eat it every day and still like it just as much. I think it’s the combination of the warmly spiced broth and the bean sprouts that do it for me. I was away from home for this challenge but it turned out quite well and I think that my brother and sister-in-law enjoyed it.

Vols – au – Vent – Daring Bakers September Challenge

holly — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:12:17 +0000

The September 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan.

Daring Cooks go Indian!

holly — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:50:07 +0000

Mmmmm, I love Indian food. I haven’t had the chance to experience a lot of it as I live in Hill Billy Central (I say that endearingly, I love where I love don’t be sending any hate mail this way!) but what I have been able to experience has be superb. All the spices and different combinations of ingredients just makes my mouth water. My favorite dish has to be Alu Gobi, delicious! Yummy cooked potatoes and roasted cauliflower with spices and whatever else is in there that makes it so yummy. Delish! Don’t forget the Nan bread. I love that stuff and could eat it without anything else. Anyways, back to the challenge at hand.

Pumpkin Muffins

holly — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:39:54 +0000

I love fall, I love the smell of the crisp air in the morning, the chilly but not freezing mornings, the beautiful reds, oranges, and yellows of the leaves, pumpkin spice lattes, and of course all the pumpkin flavored desserts. It is my favorite time of year and I look forward to it, especially when the summer starts to fade but fall isn’t quite here yet. I start thinking of all the comfort foods I’m going to make in the fall/winter. Soups, stews, grilled cheese sandwiches, homemade bread, pumpkin pie, and of course pumpkin muffins.

Macaookies?

holly — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:13:06 +0000

I decided today that with all the talk on Twitter about macaroons that I would be daring and try to make some. I’d never made any before and though really “how hard could it be?!” That was my first mistake, although I’m not sure if this is what they are supposed to look like, they do however taste delicious! I think I am partial to the chewier ones. I’m pretty sure macaroons aren’t supposed to chewy. Hmmmm. I suppose this gives me a reason to try making them again. Always room for improvement!

Wow, it’s been too long.

holly — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:15:02 +0000

Note: I started writing this last week sorry for the past and present tense!

I had good intentions of writing up my food journal last night when I was slacking from painting Lukah’s room with Tim but I didn’t. Riley woke up with a monstrous nose bleed and that kept my busy until the wee hours of the morning. I kinda fell asleep in his bed waiting for him to go back to sleep. Poor little guy I always feel bad for him when he gets woken up but nose bleeds/vomit/scary noises. The night before I just didn’t do it. I had other things to do that seemed important at the time even though I can’t remember what they were. Anyways, here it goes for Thursday!

How to make baby food

holly — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:34:01 +0000

Yup, that is what I started my day by doing. I’m going to admit that I have been buying Heinz Organic baby food for Lukah. It’s convenient and easy. There is absolutely nothing wrong with jarred baby food, but I do have to admit that making it myself for my little screaming billy-goat makes me feel like I’m being a better Momma. I haven’t had a lot of time to make baby food in the past month since he started eating it so I actually planned it and put it in my Google calendar for today. I had bought some organic pears from the Farmer’s Market last weekend and was waiting for them to ripen up so they would have the optimum amount of sweetness. I think if I would have waited another day they would have been over ripe and really hard to work with, great planning on my part. It’ almost like I knew what I was doing, if only that was true!