I have an ice cream machine; summer is the peak season for ice cream – these are two known facts. I bought the machine in the summer of 2011, fully knowing that it would spend the summer in storage, while I camped out in a […]
i think i may have finally found a recipe for perfect pancakes. it probably needs some tweaking (i like my pancakes on the sweeter side), but i’ve never had pancakes as thick as these, without being cottony and dense. yesterday morning, having woken up late, […]
since tuesday baking always seems to fall on, well, tuesday, i think it will stay on tuesdays. perhaps a literary theme would be fun when i finish my list of “things i want to make.” it was only a few years ago that i realized that many of my favorite childhood books were the ones with lots of food descriptions: all-of-a-kind-family, a tree grows in brooklyn, heidi, a girl of the limberlost…
this tuesday was originally going to be pie day, but ended up as rhubarb day, since the banana cream pie would have needed 8 hours to set and chill, and it seemed like it actually needed all 8 hours. on the menu: rhubarb streusel pie, and strawberry-rhubarb “courting” cake. and, more leftover desserts from our party!
i was surprised by my ability to finish everything in 2 1/2 hours – usually doing two recipes at once doesn’t work for me. but the pie went in the oven and then i was just making the cake, which is essentially a butter cake layered with whipped cream and a rhubarb-strawberry jam/compote. i didn’t like the compote, but it must have tasted fine in the cake, since people ate the cake. to me, the compote tasted like smarties – the chalky american kind – so maybe i should have added more sugar. probably more strawberries would have been good as well. (more…)