Anna | July 30, 2006
Earlier this week, Fuzz and I spent about two hours in Target. Well, maybe it was more like 90 minutes, but I know that at least 20 of those minutes were spent looking at trail mix bars. At our Target, the traill mix bars are in the cereal aisle which is adjacent to [...]
Anna | July 29, 2006
As mentioned earlier, my goal for today was to tackle a French pastry called Galette des Rois à la Frangiapane. In France, this pastry is eaten primarily around the holidays. Clotilde does a nice job of describing the tradition surrounding its presentation, though after reading her blog, For today, I completely disregarded the [...]
Anna | July 28, 2006
I have lofty baking goals for this weekend. One in particular is to make a Galette des Rois — France’s more sophisticated version of a King Cake. Perhaps if I start practicing now, I can master this recipe in time for the next Feast of the Epiphany. I plan to try Cindy’s recipe, which was [...]
Anna | July 26, 2006
This recipe is from an old issue of Family Circle. I followed it as stated, but as I just mentioned threw in some extra marshmallows with the crème, used broken up Hershey Bars instead of the kisses and underbaked the center by about 5 minutes. They have a big, dense graham cracker crust layer which [...]
Anna | July 25, 2006
What we really wanted to make today was S’Mores Bars, but since I didn’t have the ingredients and neither Fuzz nor I felt like going to the grocery store, we made these simple small batch chocolate cookies.
Despite the egg separating business, these come together quickly and involved very few utensils. It’s the [...]