The other baking attempt this weekend were drop cookies. They looked great, but they never set. I took them off the sheet last night, after putting them in the fridge for at least 6hrs, and they aren’t anything like the drop cookies I remember growing up. They were Kimberly’s recipe. Something these recipes rarely include […]
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Not all baking works out – cookies
Not all baking works out all the time. This weekend my two cookie projects didn’t work out at all. The second recipe is pictured above. I’m not sure what I did wrong, but it may have been beaten too much or the pan was in the wrong place in the oven. It was my first […]
Distancing Supper – Pork Shoulder
Over the last week we have been eating great. Batch cooking some days, and scratch cooking others. Yesterday we had no idea what we were going to have and that turned into this. Roasted pork shoulder from the freezer, corn fried in pork fat, onions, garlic powder and some herbs, canned black beans and a […]
Coffee as a break
My typical method for a cup of coffee is the aero press you can see behind, but sometimes we need a very nice pour-over.
Today’s attempt at bread
I made bread yesterday too, but today’s looks a lot better. Yesterday’s attempt wasn’t kneaded enough and I used too much flour on the board when I was punching down and forming the loaf.