Anna | September 12, 2009
That saying, “Never cook with a wine you wouldn’t drink” doesn’t mean much to me because wine I won’t drink is exactly what I cook with. A disappointing bottle of red means Coq au Vin the next day – and it always tastes better than the wine.
In the September issue of Food and Wine, Kristin [...]
Anna | August 10, 2009
The September issue of Food & Wine arrived Saturday, and flipping through the pages I found a Cookie Madness must-try recipe, another chocolate bundt cake made with red wine. It was credited to Anne Willan and very similar to one I made a few months ago – same concept, but different execution with fewer eggs, less [...]
Anna | July 22, 2009
Some friends are celebrating the release of the Julie & Julia movie by making French Food and drinking French wine. I couldn’t go to the party, so I decided to celebrate at home by making Julia’s famous Queen of Sheba cake, which Julia says was the first French cake she’d ever tasted.
The recipe looks simple [...]
Anna | May 1, 2009
I like baking with wine and am always happy to find recipes where you can really taste it. This is a good one because along being in the cake, the wine is also part of the melted chocolate mixture that is poured across the top of the cake.
This was sent to me by Sonia. She [...]
Anna | April 11, 2009
I’m in a real baking funk, so to pull myself out I baked a chocolate genoise from a scratch cake book. After following the directions precisely and weighing all the ingredients, what I got was a cake with a bitter chocolate edge and strong eggy taste. I tossed it in the trash and [...]