Over the past year, I've been experimenting with baking bread on and off. I love it - it's fun to do, it's cheaper to make fancy bread than buy it, and fresh bread is one of the best things in the whole wide world. For weeks I've been promising myself that once the thesis was written, I'd start up a sourdough starter so I can make sourdough bread. ( Read more... )

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I'm trying to make meringue. Everyone talks about it like it's hard, so I was rather wary. But making it all seemed easy enough. An electric mixer with a whisk attachment is helpful. It really did develop 'stiff peaks'. It was all shiny and nice with the sugar mixed in. Next step: making the meringue pieces on the baking tray. Uh oh. If there's one ( Read more... )

I made cheesecake for Mothers' Day (using the recipe that aurillia posted recently). It was yum ( Read more... )