About a month ago I received an email that got me very excited. It was from Aimee, asking me to consider becoming a contributor for a new site called Simple Bites. I headed over to check it out and knew that I just had to be a part of it. Simple Bites is a collaboration of mommy food bloggers who are passionate about simple, real food and are dedicated to "real food for the family table". Although I'm ecstatic and extremely honoured to have been asked to be a contributor, I'm even more excited about what the others have to offer and learning...
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The November 2009 Daring Bakers Challenge was chosen and hosted by Lisa Michele of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. She chose the Italian Pastry, Cannolo (Cannoli is plural), using the cookbooks Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and The Sopranos Family Cookbook by Allen Rucker; recipes by Michelle Scicolone, as ingredient/direction guides. She added her own modifications/changes, so the recipe is not 100% verbatim from either book.
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Whipped cream used to be my arch nemesis. After many failed attempts of over-mixing and under-mixing, I finally caught on and realized it to it's full potential. What helped me the most to learn the proper stages of whipping was practicing by hand. Which isn't nearly the outrageous task that I thought it would be. I recommend you try this if you have difficulty knowing when your whipped cream has reached the proper stage. I still often whip it by hand when a recipe calls for anything under a cup because it saves the hassle of dirtying the mixer and...
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The September 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan. I must admit that I was petrified going into this challenge. My first year of marriage I tried to make croissants from scratch for my parents who were coming to visit. After hours and hours (probably more like days back then) of slaving away at it, they turned out to be hard, tooth breaking, croissant shaped, lumps. I was devastated. Since...
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I know you are probably going to think I am crazy, but I could not resist another challenge. This time it is Sugar High Friday! The host this month is Zilla from Climin' the Walls and the theme she picked is Sweet without the Wheat. As is fairly obvious, we were to come up with some form of dessert that could not contain any wheat. This came just in time for Mothers day. I was wracking my brain trying to think of what to make when I stumbled upon this challenge, and then the wheals started turning. I knew that I wanted...
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I have a very talented little boy. Today is the second time that he has peed on me with his diaper on. Talk about a straight shooter! So, he had the fun of going through the grocery store in only his diaper and shirt (which magically were not wet at all), while his mother tried to cover him with his blanket so that no one would call child services for bringing a baby out it the snowy weather with merely a diaper, and he was giggling the whole way. Yes, it is snowy today. It is May long weekend in western Canada...
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