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Category Archives: recipe
Food: Creme Brulee for 40
As a dessert to follow the great chili pot of 2010, I decided to make creme brulee servings for 40 people. Creme brulee is easily one of the most consistent desserts I make, but to make it for 40 – I encountered some problems. the first was the 40 servings – I only had about [...]
Food: Dutch Oven Baked Bread
I love the sourdough bread boule from Panera bread. It has a super crispy crust and a soft consistent interior. In my previous attempts at baking, I never got quite the same consistency, usually ending up with a loaf that had a good soft interior, but an average exteior. I read about professional ovens and [...]
Food: Epic Chili Dinner
As a challenge for myself, I sometimes like to host large dinner parties where I am responsible for cooking almost all the food for the night. The latest dinner was my biggest yet. Normally I had been cooking for 15-20 guests, which was a challenge in itself in my old place with a single oven [...]
Recipe: Apple Fruit Leather
Ingredients: 8-10 medium sized apples* cut into 1 inch cubes (or any other uniform size) 1 cinnamon stick ~1/4 tsp nutmeg I diced up 9 red delicious apples into 1=inch cubes and threw them into the pot with a couple tablespoons of water, turned the heat on high, and covered it. This helped almost “steam” [...]
Link: Cooking for Engineers
A new link I added to the right is the Cooking for Engineers website dedicated to recipes and reviews from a more analytical viewpoint. I like finding my internet doppelgangers, this guy has several similarities: - last names differ by one letter - he takes photos of food while making them with his slr - [...]
Recipe: Pretzel Rolls
Pretzel Rolls Adapted from Bon Appetit January 1994 2 3/4 cups bread flour (420 gms) – I use King Arthur Unbleached Bread Flour 1 envelope quick-rising yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon of celery seed or powder 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (about) hot water (125°F to 130°F) Cornmeal 8 cups water [...]
Life: Live Fantasy Football Draft 2009
The past several years, my friends and I have been doing the Yahoo Sports fantasy football leagues. This year, we have a record 14 teams playing – so we couldn’t just settle for a regular online draft where we trash talk via chat room. This year, we decided to have a live fantasy draft, complete [...]
Recipe: Momofuku Pork Shoulder