Original Recipe: http://christiescorner.com/2011/10/19/recipe-old-fashioned-sour-cream-doughnuts/ My favourite Tim Hortons doughnut is the sour cream glazed. I just can’t get enough of them. Now that I have a deep fryer, I decided to do some searching for a recipe. This one made some big claims, and it’s close, but not...

For New Year’s Eve, Adele’s family got together for dinner and fun. Attending were 13 adults and 8 kids ranging from 3 months to 11 years old. Most everybody enjoys gaming, but their experience with “designer games” is limited. I’ve tried a few times in the past to interest them in selections from my collection but...

Adele bought me a deep fryer for Christmas! What does that mean? Doughnuts! Specifically, a delicious Italian pastry called bombolone. I’ve made these before , but this is the first time I had access to vanilla beans and the proper “doppio zero” flour. (Costco sells vanilla beans for $1.20 each. A far cry from the...

Well I’ve made a half-dozen different types of bread lately but I’ve yet to make just a plain white loaf of bread. That changed yesterday. I tried Gisslen’s white pan bread recipe. I was hoping for two loaves, but apparently the only pans I have are 9×5, which appears to be relatively large. So I only got one (albeit...

Rating: 3/5 I finished these books months ago, but I’m just now getting around to posting about them. This is a series of coffee-table-style books (meaning mostly full-colour photos) that take a discipline and present one author’s take on the 100 ideas that changed that field. There are six books in the series:art,...

I’m discovering that I suck at taking photos. I just get so involved in the baking that I don’t even think about it until we’ve eaten (or in this case given away) all of it and I go to post on the blog! I do apologize. In the interest of saving my marriage, let me set the record straight. Adele is the one who started...

Now that we have an actual home with a little space, we were finally able to throw a Christmas party this year. Many couldn’t make it, but we really enjoyed spending time with those that could. We also took the opportunity to do some more holiday baking, but of things that people didn’t get on the baking plates . Also...

We’ve been making gallons and gallons of ice cream in the past months. We have a 2-quart Cuisinart ice cream maker and have lately tried making malted ice cream. First, my base sweet cream recipe: 2 cups (1 pint) heavy cream 2 cups (1 pint) other dairy 1 cup sugar 1/8 tsp salt (optional) 6 egg yolks I like a really...

We had some family staying with us this last week and we had a larger family dinner to boot, so I had three baking opportunities. Here’s the breakdown. Pizza I love pizza—specifically, real honest-to-goodness Italian pizza napoletana. I even bought a baking stone for my oven just so I could at least try to re-create...

I am clearly insane. I know my body does better on almost no carbs. The pounds fall off, a host of minor annoying symptoms decrease, and I just feel better all around. So what do I go and do? I learn to make bread—good bread. My favourite book acquisition of late has been Wayne Gisslen’s Professional Baking . So far...