It’s been a long week of science with precious little connection to the actual practice of baking. Just to show I haven’t totally lost touch with pastry reality, here are the eclairs I assembled this afternoon for one of the wife’s departmental meetings (thank God eclair shells freeze so well). Here’s to the end of […]
READ ONIt’s a marketing gimmick of course. Something some clever French yogurt company executive thought of to sell more yogurt. Not unlike the marshmallow treats recipe on the back of every box of Rice Krispies, except in this you measure out the cake with the container the yogurt came in. Western popular food culture is of […]
READ ONGetting those coffee cakes baked off in time for the wife to take them to her early class meant rising about 5:30. The first order of business was to acquire some new eggs (I wasn’t about to use those runny old things for my glaze). Happily the mega-mart two blocks away is open all night. […]
READ ONEvery baker has a go-to pastry. The thing you can do with you eyes closed, that never fails to impress, the ingredients for which are always at-the-ready for when surprise guests show up, a neighbor’s great uncle dies or your spouse commits you to a bake sale without your knowledge. For me it’s coffee cake. […]
READ ONWell it’s been quite a week. The site went down Friday, came back Saturday and remained stuck in cardiac arrhythmia all week. Things are just starting to come back together now, but hopefully the joepastry.com experience will be vastly improved going forward. I have a new host and upgraded software which should both speed things […]
READ ONI was in the process of having the site moved to a new server when, er…something happened, no one seems to know what. Except that the thing got all messed up. I wasn’t going to be posting for several days anyway while the move happened, but this is a more embarrassing version of what I […]
READ ON1. Use good – not necessarily great – ingredients. All good food starts with good ingredients, in the case of pastry, decent flour, decent sugar (I like cane for most things), decent fruit and chocolate. Find good, reasonably priced sources and don’t go overboard. No need to pay up unless the ingredient is playing a […]
READ ONThis coming Tuesday is Annual Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s, so plan your week accordingly. Find your nearest Ben & Jerry’s with their store locator here.
READ ONRemember my little anti-Tuscan olive oil rant from a few days back? Actually it wasn’t so much a rant as a statement of opinion. Well when I wrote that I was forgetting that my mother-in-law is going to be shelling out some big dollars for a trip to Tuscany this summer (the centerpiece of which […]
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