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Sunday Brunch
Sunday morning we hosted brunch for a group of friends, all of whom work (or used to work) in the aviation industry. Needless to say, the topic of conversation frequently turned back to shared work experiences. Despite… -
Baking Pecan Tarts
Every time I visit the US, I make a trip to Costco and buy several pounds of pecans and walnuts. Nuts (with the exception of cashews, peanuts, and macadamias, all of which are grown locally) are very expensive here in T… -
Baking: Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake Soaked in Raspberry Syrup
Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake Soaked in Raspberry Sauce Recipe Source:Week of Menus Time: About 2 hours Taste: 4/5 Fancy Factor: 4/5 One of my favorite cooking-related websites is Week of Menus. Written by Joanne Ch… -
A Little Pre-Hawai'i Cooking
The day I filmed the Almost No-Knead Bread video, I got some extra cooking done. It made sense to have just a little more home cooking before we head off to Kauai for my cousin's wedding. The meal: Indian spice rub po… -
Food in Bangkok: BKK Bagel Bakery
First it was the cheesecake; now the bagels have arrived. There seems to be a growing affinity for things New York (or, at least, things perceived to be in the New York style) here in Bangkok. This trend first caught m… -
My Almost No-Knead Bread Recipe
My cousin Jane recently asked me to share my recipe for almost no-knead bread, which I've adapted from a recipe in Nancy Baggett's "Kneadlessly Simple" cookbook and techniques from Cooks Illustrated. This weekend I comp… -
Baking Natural Red Velvet Cupcakes
The red velvet cake's entry into popular culture can probably be traced to the 1989 film Steel Magnolias, in which the groom's cake was a red velvet cake in the shape of an armadillo. There's something seductive about t… -
Baking with a Banneton
On my trip to the US in early December, my friend Mabel gave me a gift she had been holding for some time: a pair of banneton. These wicker baskets are used by the French when proofing bread dough - after it is shaped a… -
Baking Magnolia's Vanilla Cupcakes
Baking project! Tawn's aunt had her 70-somethingth birthday celebration today so even though I was not going to attend, I helped prepare two dozen cupcakes. Tawn prepared brownies, too, but since he made those, not I,… -
Chocolate Raspberry Torte
A little bit more about the cake I baked for my 40th birthday. For all the cooking I do, I don't have a lot of experience with cakes and cake-like desserts. I'm more of a bread man, myself. Nonetheless, I decided to m…
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