New recipe application?
I signed up to be a beta tester for KitchenBug, a new online cooking/recipe community. I just started using it today, but I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
Here come the pilgrims
I was too busy to make Halloween sweet treats, but I plan on making cookies for Thanksgiving. Here are some cookie cutters for the season:
Copper Gifts (pilgrim, pilgrim hat and turkey shaped cutters)
Cookie Cutter Shop (they have squirrel cutters)
Reader Challenge
Welcome to Offbeat Eating. The concept for this site has been in the back of my mind for years and finally went live this month! As part of the build process I searched to find some interesting graphics for the site. And I found them in the grocery store — in the form of the sardine cans that decorate the site.
My challenge to you readers: What should I make with my many cans of sardines in tomato sauce?
One bowl or two?
I’m reading up on the creaming method vs. two-stage method of cake mixing. I’m starting with CookWise and will then move on to more baking books.
It’s easy enough to find excellent recipes for chocolate or vanilla cakes, but I’d like to be able to create my own [tasty] cake recipes for fruit flavors and other non-mainstream ingredients.
Cheap Cheese
I stopped at Costco in hopes of snagging baking supplies for my cupcake experiment but was annoyed to find they only carry ap flour (not cake flour) and didn’t have much else except white sugar and chocolate chips–not was I was looking for.
My trip, and mood, was salvaged when I spotted a round of delice d’argental cheese for less than $6.00. For dinner I enjoyed the French, triple cream goodness spread on crusty bread.
Kashi Convert
A few months ago i received a free sample of Kashi Go Lean Crunch. My first reaction was that it tasted like sugar honey smacks (I was never a fan of that frog), but quite pleased that it didn’t instantly go soggy.
The Kashi marketing efforts worked–I’ve been eating it (original flavor) with vanilla soymilk almost every morning since then. I’m quite surprised that a big bowl actually fills me up until lunch. If I eat an egg and cheese sandwich or bowl of oatmeal I’m hungry by 10:30.