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Posted on Mar 26, 2010 12:41 pm
Tadpui
I am not a crook's head
Member Since: Mar 14, 2003
For some reason I've been on a baking streak lately. Well, its only been 2 items but seeing as how I've baked maybe a half dozen things in my life up until now, this qualifies as a streak.
We had some bananas laying around going bad, so I thought I'd make some banana nut bread. I toiled and troubled all afternoon (I'm the world's slowest cook, I need to get Guiness out here to verify). I pulled it out of the oven and noticed that it was a crust covering a gelatinous center of banana-flavored goo. I cooked it for the requisite 55 minutes, but it was more banana pudding than banana bread. But my wife had a genius revelation that I never would have thought of: let's cook it longer.
Well it worked. We overcooked it by a little bit, but we ate every crumb of that loaf of bread. Delicious!
Next was a larger challenge: classic American apple pie. Store-bought crust, but everything else was from scratch. I peeled, I peeled, I peeled some more. I never want to see our peeler again. It's an evil instrument designed to make you think that you'll never, ever complete peeling all of these freaking apples. 4 pounds of apples! Then the coring, then the slicing...I think I spent over 1.5 hours with that pile of apples. Tossed them in the sugar/spice/lemon/zest mixture, piled that giant mound of apple slices in the bottom crust, and then fumbled with the upper crust. A little egg white brushed on, some sugar sprinkled in there, and into the oven it went.
It came out OK. I doubled the spices requested, which I think ended up overpowering the apples a bit. The apples I used (1/2 granny smith, 1/2 gala) weren't quite right. I'd substitute tastier McIntosh for the gala next time. And the crust seems to be arc-welded to the pie dish
But all in all, for my first couple of major baking projects, they came out OK.
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Mar 26, 2010 12:53 pm Awesome, man.
I am no baker, but I have, much to my wife's delight, started cooking more...no big fancy meals, but I like Italiano food, which I am getting OK at, I love fish, so we are eating more of that, which is healthy.
I've grown to kinda enjoy time in the kitchen.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 26, 2010 12:56 pm Home Baking Connection! haha Awesome!!!
I leave all baking to my gal. She can not be outdone in the kitchen, and although I don't mind trying to do so every now and then, I find that leaving those things 'baked' to her, is a good thing for me to do. ; )
Mmmm... I do love a fresh-baked apple pie... with some ice cream, maybe.
Nice one Tad!
Oh, and "hi" guys! It's been a while. : )
Quincysanhttp://www.unitedmusicians.infoContributor
Since: Nov 11, 2007
Mar 26, 2010 01:26 pm Heck yeah it has Hue, good to hear from you!
And Tad, my room mate recently started baking about a week and a half ago...maybe it's something in the air. Started out with some wheat bread that we made extra wheat-y...it tasted healthy, but I imagine the taste is somewhere in the "horse biscuit" ballpark. We've developed the white and sourdough bread to the point of sandwichification and I'm quite pleased to say that the ordinary sandwich is now something to look forward to...and danish pastries are freakin' incredible. Two days ago he made a plain danish pastry the size of a large pizza wrapped around a small dog. Sugar explosion. He tells rumors of a pineapple danish in the works...I guess I'd rather him go out and get a job since he's been unemployed for 5 months now...but pastries ARE pretty delicious...
Mar 26, 2010 01:30 pm I love baking! haha. I have a pretty wicked chocolate chip cookie recipe. So good in fact, i don't think anyone i've known has outdone it for chocolate chips. Not to toot my own horn :P
Cooking is fun. Sort of relaxing in a way. And i (almost) always feel some sense of accomplishment after. There have definitely been a few disappointments lol. Misreading a recipe that has stains all over it. Thinking i know better than the recipe on a certain ingredient. Forgetting i was baking/cooking at all while i throw a set of headphones on and try listening to my mix a few more times until my nose alerts me that i screwed up big time lol. But other than that it feels good!
Mar 26, 2010 01:33 pm I'm suddenly craving cookies.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 26, 2010 01:55 pm My Mom has a recipe somewhere for what she calls "monster cookies". They're oatmeal, peanut butter (which I usually hate in a cookie, but in this case it's more like awesome butter), chocoloate chips, M&Ms, and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. And she makes them huge, like 4" in diameter at least. It's a meal in a cookie. Those currently hold my blue ribbon for Best Cookie Eating Experience.
And hello Hue, glad that the topic of baking drew you out of your hole for a bit :-) It's like Hue Noodling hahahaha. Now, before you know what's going on, we stick our finger in your mouth and drag you out to a bar by the inside of your cheek.
Mar 26, 2010 02:53 pm OK, I may have to add a recipe sharing section to this site...
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 26, 2010 03:57 pm hee hee
cooloFrisco's Most UnderratedMember
Since: Jan 28, 2003
Mar 26, 2010 05:12 pm I'm a huge fan of the tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe.
I don't bake very often, but when I do, it's delicious. The only problem is I eat the results too fast.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 26, 2010 05:41 pm Oooh, speaking of recipes on the back of a box/can, there are 2 pie recipes that are out of this world straight off of these 2 cans:
The Libby's pureed pumpkin can has a recipe for pumpkin pie that's become the standard holiday pumpkin pie for myself and my family. It makes 2 pies, so be ready to either give one away or get busy eatin' pie.
The 2nd is the pecan pie recipe on the back of the dark Karo Syrup bottle. Holy cow that's such a decadent pie, I can barely contain myself when I eat it. The gelatin-like center of that pie is so intensely sweet and savory, the pecans so perfectly roasted from baking in the oven, and the crust so delicately flaky, its impossible for me not to make a little estatic moan while chewing every bite.
The Karo recipe makes 2 pies as well, but you'd better be prepared to beat me unconscious before taking that 2nd pie from me...
Mar 27, 2010 04:26 am lol when i read the topic title i thought it was about weed
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 27, 2010 03:32 pm No, that's "Baked At Home Connection" :-)
Mar 27, 2010 08:12 pm Lol, those "back of the bag" recipes are often pretty good! but i've always been one for experimentation. Most recipes i never make more than once. But every now and then i stumble onto something incredible. I like to vary it as much as possible though. Idk, when i'm in the kitchen i never like to do the same exact thing twice. Can't really explain it. I guess i just find it "fun" to do something new lol
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 27, 2010 09:01 pm Fragile, you're the Jerry Garcia of home cooking. A regular Trey Anastasio, if you will.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 29, 2010 09:02 am The kids cleaned the kitchen this weekend, and as a result were both inclined to cook up things they've 'never cooked before'...
It was an apple-pie'ish-type thing, without a crust, and cinnamon throughout.
It was... interesting. Kind of good...'ish. I mean, what's not to like about apples, cinnamon? ; )
Mar 29, 2010 07:32 pm I only bake things from the freezer lol, like desert pies n ****
but I have baked cakes before, packet cakes aha
olddogMember
Since: Jul 02, 2003
Mar 30, 2010 03:28 am I haven't baked anything since I was a kid unless you count meatloaf, I leave that to the wife, it's safer that way. I used to help my grandmother bake pies and stuff way back, even baked a few cakes & cookies by myself all from scratch. Then there were my experiments with pancakes...
Dan
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 30, 2010 11:40 am Oooooh I Love making pancakes! If we ever have buttermilk in the house, I'll make up some pancakes that are just awesome. Even better if we have blueberries in the house.
Although I haven't done it for a long time, I love making blueberry muffins. It's just such a time-consuming process. It takes about 90 minutes until they're even in the oven (told ya I'm a slow cook!).
Sometimes we'll make breakfast sandwiches that are the most artery-clogging bit of sinful tastiness you've ever experienced, It all centers around a discovery that we never should have made: bacon-flavored sausage. It's what it sounds like...ground sausage infused with ground bacon, fats and all. If it gets to room temperature, it becomes unworkable so you have to cut it frozen and toss it on the skillet before it loosens up. Otherwise you have this gelatinous soupy pourridge of pig-parts...mmmmmmm. You just have to try it to believe in how wonderfully salty and tasty it is.
Well, I've gone and convinced myself that I'm going to have to make something for breakfast this morning. Dunno what we have the ingredients for though. That's when things get dangeous :-)
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 30, 2010 12:14 pm Bacon flavored sausage sounds killer!!!(npi) I've got to find some!
My gal makes some wicked pancakes, too... a commodity when we go camping. They keep, and reheat quite well, too.
We once tried a 'veal-bacon'... talk about an 'eval' breakfast food. haha
Mar 30, 2010 12:18 pm Call me wacky, but I like sausage flavored sausage.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 30, 2010 12:50 pm You wacky daredevil, you!
Sausage-flavored sausage is veddy good too. Nothing wrong with sausages.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 30, 2010 05:26 pm We do the regular sausage as well, mainly for sausage gravy for those mornings when either we have to feed an army (biscuits and gravy is a great, cheap way to feed a big group of people and nobody will be hungry again before dinner time).
But when it comes to breakfast sandwiches (sausage, egg, cheese on a biscuit), ya gotta use the bacon flavored sausage. Oh my, its sinfully delicious.
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Mar 30, 2010 10:27 pm its funny how you dudes call them biscuits.
makes me smile everytime i hear it.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 31, 2010 09:01 am Yeah Tad, I'll be locally searching for that stuff!
I gots to know Deon... why is 'biscuits' funny?
