By Tamera, on November 13th, 2008% Part 3 – Wednesday & Thursday This is part 3 of 3, but maybe I will tell you what happens to the rest of the dough.
Well according to the experiment on Tuesday, Wednesday’s cookie should of been better yet. So here I go again cooking just one giant chocolate chip cookie. I sticking to a fair battle got the cookie sheet, parchment paper and the scale ready. Here is my lovely 3.5 ounce ball of dough. I have to confess that the dough is really hard because it has been in the fridge for so long, I used an ice cream scoop to gouge out dough and then formed . . . → Read More: The best chocolate chip cookie EVAR?!
By Tamera, on November 12th, 2008% Part 2 – Tuesday This is part 2 of the 3 part post, yes this is the experiment.
So according to David Leite’s article
“At 12 hours, the dough had become drier and the baked cookies had a pleasant, if not slightly pale, complexion. The 24-hour mark is where things started getting interesting. The cookies browned more evenly and looked like handsomer, more tanned older brothers of the younger batch. The biggest difference, though, was flavor. The second batch was richer, with more bass notes of caramel and hints of toffee.”
I decided to put this to the test and bake 1 cookie last night hoping to document my initial . . . → Read More: The best chocolate chip cookie EVAR?
By Tamera, on November 11th, 2008% Part 1 – Monday This will be a 3 part post as there will be an experiment ran @24 hrs.
If you haven’t heard I am totally fascinated by Deb over at Smitten Kitchen. I follow her on twitter, I get RSS feeds from her website, she’s a contact of mine on Flickr and I would try just about anything she has cooked. The other day she posted leite’s consummate chocolate chip cookie. Her post was based on an article “Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie: Perfection? Hint: It’s Warm and Has a Secret” in The New York Times by David Leite. I have never even heard of David . . . → Read More: The best chocolate chip cookie EVAR?
By Tamera, on November 11th, 2008% So it was Friday night and I was trying to keep myself busy while I awaited the return of KLT. 🙂 I had gone shopping to buy him some things to take make his new temporary pad in Nashville nicer and was really busy doing laundry. I decided that I would make up a couple of lasagnes in loaf pans and freeze them so he could bake them later. Now let me just say that KLT is very capable in the kitchen and really doesn’t need me to make meals for him. I just want to extend a bridge between the three homes and two states we are currently occuping. . . . → Read More: Cheater’s Lasagne
By Tamera, on November 7th, 2008% So when I get home I have the wonderful surprise I have been waiting for, my new Breville Cafe Roma Espresso Maker ! A few weeks ago WOOT had a deal on a espresso maker but it was a little more than I wanted to pay and even though my poor little espresso maker(pretty much the 10yr old version of this, just imagine it more square and larger). Hey it was 10 years old and I did only pay $25 dollars for it, I am pretty sure I got my money’s worth. So last week WOOT had a deal on another Breville this time it was a little more affordable. . . . → Read More: and it continues + a Mocha
By Tamera, on October 13th, 2008% So for the last couple weeks or so I have just been not into cooking, blogging or anything else for that matter. KLT sorta threw me for a loop when he got mad and posted his job on Monster late one night. Little did I know about how long these things actually take, he is off for most of this week and Friday is his official last day here at Purdue. That’s right he will no longer be just down the hall when I need him. He won’t be here to have lunch with every day, there will be no car pooling to work, no being mad that he’s running . . . → Read More: Just not into it
By Tamera, on October 1st, 2008% Here I am posting from my office something I try not to do. But I have decided something needs to happen in the Office that makes me feel good in stead of everything that happened yesterday which made me feel, well I was hugging Elmo.
I am a tick behind on posting but in my defense things have gotten just a tick CRAZY. I spent 3 days preparing my house for a showing. OUCH! In the middle of that I had to take some time out to create a few yummies for a friend. My dear friend Kim wanted me to make her mom a cake as it was . . . → Read More: Good Wednesday Morning to you!
By Tamera, on September 15th, 2008% It seems I failed to mention that we bought 2 spoons full of 9.99 per pound olives stuffed with Fetta cheese. 😉
After our trip to Jungle Jim’s we found ourselves back at the hotel and waiting on Rick’s sister and husband to arrive. So we watched the game, rested and loaded pictures.
Our evening goes down like this…..
We walk 1 mile to the park along the river (map), hmm wonder why no one saw the WALKING button Saturday. That was really ok, paid our monies and there we were at a festival with real beer. The Celtic Festival is an interesting thing.
We first picked up . . . → Read More: Cincinnati wrap up – Part II
By Tamera, on September 14th, 2008% Good to be home but I could of done without this craptastic weather.
Saturday we took off for Jungle Jim’s. OMG it looks like an amusement park. This is INSIDE the parking lot.
We came home with quite a haul of goodies that we couldn’t find locally. First there was the tortilla warmer of course you can get one of these locally the major problem is that they wanted something like $15 and I found this one for just under $8. 🙂 There are two things that we picked up that WERE available locally but have since disappeared first is the ever so famous Boat Beer as . . . → Read More: Cincinnati Wrap UP – Part 1
By Tamera, on September 13th, 2008% Well as you know nothing ever goes like it should. I mean really I try very hard but it NEVER works out that way. The plan: Depart work at 2 pm, pack up things play with dogs and head to Carla’s 2:45 then depart for IND 3pm, pick up Ruck 4 pm and head to Cincinnati to arrive 6pm. Hopefully get to the hotel and to dinner by 7:30. AHAHHAHAHHAH!!!! Well things got a rough kick in the nads when KLT was requested to be on an important phone call at you guessed it 2 pm. Now that will leave me to pack up everything in the rain by myself. . . . → Read More: Good Morning from Cincinnati
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