Did anybody guess what Napoleons and Neapolitan pizza have in common? That’s right you with the accent, they’re both from Naples. But you just try telling the Danes that. They’re convinced that the Napoleon was invented by a Danish royal pastry maker when the daring Corsican had occasion to visit the King of Denmark in […]
READ ONSeems the sourdough starter I made last month is a bit of a touchy customer. Since I use it quite a bit I’ve gotten used to just letting it sit out on the kitchen counter 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Yet now that it’s really warm I’ve had a bit of trouble. […]
READ ONAs you all know I’m generally pretty sanguine when it comes to things like high-fructose corn syrup and trans fats. But ice cream that contains fish proteins just doesn’t sound good. Though I have to confess that the science geek in me finds the idea of taking a protein that keeps an eelpout from freezing […]
READ ONIt’s been a while since we’ve done any real pastry-case pastry here at Joe Pastry, so I figure, let’s make ourselves a classic: Napoleons I had a terrible time finding Napoleon recipes on the web. I don’t think this is an especially good or clear one. But a Napoleon is really just a combination of […]
READ ONJust back from a 3-day trip to Chicago where I witnessed something I thought I’d never see: a city on fire (no pun intended) for thin-crust pizza. True, the massive Chicago deep dish pie has always been something of a tourist dish. The locals crow loudly about its virtues to out-of-town family, then sneak home […]
READ ONHad to run to Chicago on business, so I won’t be blogging today. More of the usual come Monday.
READ ONNo, it’s not the planet Yoda lives on. It’s a chocolate company that’s taking advantage of organic, the nutraceutical movement and all kinds of interesting stuff. Candy Industry magazine has a great write-up on them here.
READ ONAnyone you know on a gluten-free diet? My guess is you do. But who knew the market was quite this big?
READ ONFrom Sally C : Chocolate Chip Cookies 1 cup white sugar 1 cup brown sugar 1 cup shortening 1 cup cooking oil 1 egg, beaten 1 Tblsp. milk 1 tsp. cream of tartar 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. vanilla 1 pkg. chocolate chips 1/2 cup nuts, optional 3 1/2 – 4 […]
READ ONWhat’s made the chocolate chip cookie the towering cultural icon that it is? There’s its taste, yes. Yet I believe its appeal lies in its deceptive simplicity. For within that seemingly simple butter-sugar-flour-chocolate matrix lies infinite space for interpretation and variation. There’s the flat, there’s the cakey, there’s the crisp, there’s the chewy, the nut-filled, […]
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