Y’all, bread is hard to make. Making bread has been an up and down experience for me. The first bread I ever made was in a crockpot, and although it was tasty, it could definitely only be loosely described as “bread”. Perhaps you could sell it in a grocery store as a “wheat food product”… Continue reading Revenge of the Brioche: In which I reclaim my title of Yeast Queen
July is one of two months of the year when we reach the inconceivable point where there are too many desserts in the house. My birthday is on the 17th, and my brother’s is on the 23rd, meaning there is a full sized dessert that gets made for each of us, in addition to the… Continue reading Blind Baking: A Tale of Hubris and Knowing When to Quit
Cheesecake is my favorite dessert (read my post in Unwanted Opinions to see why) but baking a full one had always intimidated me. Every single cheesecake recipe always contains a plethora of *WARNING* type messages about how you will most likely fuck up your cheesecake. Your cream cheese isn’t soft enough? You fucked up your… Continue reading Mind the Crack-Baking my First Cheesecake
