Baking

Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

NutterBallerz – Peanut Butter Banana Cookies

January 17, 2012

Gather round, ye nut-lovers, and hear this tale of how the Nutter Baller came to be among our fleshly bodies. That sounded gross. I apologize. I hope you’re still here so I can just tell you about this cookie that FAMOUS PASTRY CHEF ZAC YOUNG told me to make. He told me to make a [...]

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Pepperoni Pizza

Homemade Pizza … At Home!

December 28, 2011

I never made pizza at home before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the dough the [...]

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Ginger Snap Cookies Recipe

Gingersnap Cookies

December 20, 2011

Somebody please shoot me before I eat all these cookies. I really can’t stop and it’s getting to be a problem. If you enjoy the problem of irresistible cookies, then these gingersnaps are for you. They are snappy! They are gingery! They are really really good with milk and this coming from someone who doesn’t [...]

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Gougeres Recipe

Spicy Parmesan Poofballs, or Gougères

December 13, 2011

To Begin: Pâte à Choux, aka Choux Pastry I first learned how to make Shoe Pastry when I was living in New Zealand, dating the ChefBoy, and learning all kinds of neat-o Real Chef Things. Things such as: It’s actually spelled choux pastry. It took me more time that I care to admit to figure [...]

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Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

Mushroom Duxelles in Puff Pastry

December 6, 2011

If you don’t know, duxelles is just French for “mushrooms cooked down into paste”. Mushroom paste? Blech. No wonder they made up a fancy-sounding word for it. But it is yummy if you’re into mushrooms. If you’re not, I completely understand because I have hated mushrooms my whole life until very recently when I had [...]

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Bourbon Pecan Pie

Homemade Bourbon Pecan Pie

November 23, 2011

Pecans and bourbon are harbingers of cooler weather around these parts. Pecans ripen in October which makes them synonymous with Fall. Bourbon can be harvested all year round, but it is particularly nice when it’s cold outside. (Maybe they should call it “Brr-bon”! Just kidding.) Bourbon also happens to be a damn fine addition to [...]

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Homemade Butter Pie Crust

Butter Pie Crust

November 22, 2011

Pie crust has a bad reputation, but it needn’t. There are only three absolute requirements to any pie crust: fat, flour, and liquid and once you understand the science behind it you’ll be making kick-ass pie crusts every time, all the time. The first step of pie crust making is very much like the first [...]

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