I went home to spend this past weekend with my parents and to celebrate my father’s birthday, the 4th of July. We had a family cookout and I made my flag cake as I do every year. My mother pulled a Cool-Whip/Sara Lee sponsored recipe out of a magazine advertisement years ago and I have […]
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Yearly Archives: 2005Zarah from Food and Thoughts tagged me for one of the many memes running around the food blogging world of late: The Cook Next Door. What is your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?It was 1987 and I was 6 years old […] show 7 comments hehe……I share your obsession about nutritional yeast and yes there’s a bag in my desk drawer at work :P Yay, it’s up! Thanks for accepting my tag Gemma. It’s funny about that “I went vegetarian and started cooking food” – same thing happened to me, and, I know for a fact, a lot of other food bloggers! What’s the deal with this meme thing and the tags? Vegimouse, I am glad I am not alone! It is just so damn savory! The horrible things you’ve heard about Kobe beef? Dude! Hi Gemma, No worries Teresa. Good luck with the move and I look forward to reading your blog! It had sure been a long time since I last made a real yeasted bread. I finally did last weekend. I used the recipe for olive bread from Beth Hensperger’s Bread Bible. Here in Hyde Park we have an excellent produce shop just a few blocks from my house called, fittingly, Hyde Park Produce. This […] show 3 comments The bread looks fabulous, and combining two of my son’s favorite things (green olives and bread!), he’d be in heaven. Those cheddar Gougères look awesome too. Gemma, I love olives and this bread looks irresistible! I think your roommates are very lucky… Thanks Sweetnicks and Keiko. I think my roommates enjoy the final products, but I am pretty sure they could do without my firing up the oven on hot summer days when we don’t have air conditioning! One afternoon this past weekend I decided to make Gougères. These airy, eggy, crusty puffs of pâte à choux are delicious right out of the oven. Traditionally they are made with Gruyère, yet I used this recipe from Leite’s Culinaria (and omitted the chives because I did not have them on hand). This is such […] show 11 comments They serve something like these as an appetizer at one of me and my boyfriend’s favourite restaurants – I’m not sure I’d like to try making them myself, ’cause that would just take the adventure out of eating them there! But, you know, I’ve bookmarked the recipe just in case!;-) They look so pretty! Gemma, Thanks Zarah, they are so easy too! I don’t know if I would want to learn how to make something simple that has always been part of a special occasion for me, it might take the fun out of it. You can use many different kinds of ingredients and spices with them though, so perhaps you could change it enough so they wouldn’t be as similar. Gemma, I absolutely love gougeres! I have very fond memories of traveling around Burgundy in a tiny green rental car with my mom, eating gougeres from local boulangeries…ahhhh. I have yet to try making them myself, though. Your post is a good reminder for me to get started… Mmm. That sounds like a lovely memory. They are so easy! You should give them a try. Man those look good! Thanks Lyn! Thank you also for hosting the event! Hi Gemma, Thanks farmgirl. There are so delicious. Having this picture up for DMBLGIT reminds me that I need to experiment more with different ingredients. Wow! this bread looks a delicious knowing that there’s a lot of cheddar inside yummy! Hi Bizu, The topic for the ninth edition of Sugar High Fridays, one of the many excellent food blogging events, was Tantalizing Titillating Tempting Tarts. I am quite the tart fan and I decided to take this opportunity to learn to make something new. I decided on a pear and almond frangipane tart. I based the recipe […] show 10 comments Damn Gemma. Oh my, that looks gorgeous! I made that second pear tart recipe a while back, but I thought that either canned pears don’t have enough flavor or else the ones I bought weren’t that good because they ended up being kind of mushy and flavorless… Guess I should poach my own next time! But I love the combination of pear and almond, yum! Gemma, this looks so yummy, I wish I could take a bite… LOVELY! Oh so LOVELY! Beautiful! I never have the patience to slide pears into a tart making them look quite as lovely Hi Gemma, Gemma that is one gorgeous tart. You’ve inspired me to make something like that tonight when I get home from work…thanks! Awww, thanks everyone. The attractiveness-to-work ratio on this tart is truly excellent. wow – that looks incredible. i love the design :) Thanks Sarah! |
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tara - Happy Birthday to your Dad! That cake makes me grin – it is promoted around Canada Day up here, without the blueberries and with a strawberry maple leaf instead. What marketing! :)
This one also includes a jello layer.
gemma - Haha! That is pretty funny. I suppose I should have guessed. Ooh, the Jello layer is pretty fancy. I’m not the biggest Jello fan though.
Perhaps next year I will make a Canada Day cake!
Teresa - That cake is so good. Gorgeous photos!
gemma - Thanks so much Teresa. It is a tasty cake! I’m excited to read your blog as it gets underway!