Posting some of my old drafts:

Attempted to make an angel cake, there are no pictures because it collapsed into a hot mess. Many months later I learned that my oven is a waste of space and doesn't actually have the right temperature, ever. However the lemon curd was such a hit so here's the recipe. I saved some tangerine juice from the fruits at my parent's house to make some curd in the future, or maybe even some grapefruit.

The Lemond curd recipe

Super Bowl savorings

Superbowl recap, we tried to cook wings for the first time, did a couple batches of fried wings and a couple in the oven, all delicious. For wing recipes check out http://pinterest.com/xquach/wings/
For the homemade ranch: http://smells-like-home.com/2011/01/ranch-dressing/
Buffalo, garlic Parmesan, and lemon pepper wings, with some homemade ranch

Pizza dough for the impatient...

I crave pizza, on a daily basis. Thin crust from the oven, a little charred from the pizza stone... Slices of mozzarella... pesto... deliciousness. Peter Reinhart's recipe is great, but it takes 2 days, as psychology has enlightened me, the effort (Time to wait, cleaning dishes) required is too much for me to handle, so instead of making myself wait, I just deprive myself. I couldn't take it anymore so I found a quick recipe.
Well we shall see, new recipe from here

• 1 cup of warm water
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of yeast
• 2 1/2 teaspoons of olive oil
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
• 1/4 of apple cider vinegar
• About 4 cups of flower

Potato Leek au gratin ish

2 Leeks sliced thin

1 onion sliced thinly

2 Bay leaves

3 cloves of roasted garlic

Chicken Stock

Half and half

Butter

Oil

Salt

Pepper

Cook Leeks in oil and butter
Caramelized onions add roasted garlic
Add flour- make roux
Half and half and chicken stock, add water until consistency is right

Slice potatoes thin, see thru
Add sauce at bottom of corningware
Layer potatoes, parmesan, sauce, until full

Sprinkle bread crumbs on top of pan

Bake at 400F for 35-40 mins

Snowflakes

These are not edible and yes they are crochet projects, I figure since I'm taking a short bread break since it's almost Thanksgiving and I'm heading home that I could start posting other "creative" projects.

Made 3 snowflakes- they all have tiny mistakes, but I figured no 2 snowflakes are alike so it's ok!

Found the patterns for the first 3 here

Pattern 1- I added the corrections

Chain Loop Snowflake

Ch 8; join with sl st to form ring.

Rnd 1: Ch 1, sc in ring; (ch 12, sc in ring) 11 times; ch 5, yo hook 4 times, insert hook in first sc and draw lp through (yo and draw through 2 lps on hook) 5 times -- trtr made and 12 ch-12 lps counting trtr as lp.

BBA 1. Anadama challenge

Starting up the Bread Baking Apprentice Challenge, here's the first one Anadama Bread.

This recipe makes 2 loaves in 9x5 pans.

If you'd like the recipe you can find it here

Day 1
One. Make the starter
I weighed the cornmeal- 6oz and used my Pyrex beaker cup for 8 oz of water

**Note to all other bakers- do not use Pan cornmeal for arepas... doesn't work!**

Here's the cornmeal and water- liquid!

Day 2
Two. Added the flour, water and yeast, got it to bubble!

Three. Next was adding the molasses, room temperature butter, salt and flour.

Four. Then the kneading, my dough was super sticky, so I kept adding flour, and kneading, however I never got to the windowpane test. My arms were too tired to keep going after kneading for almost 20 minutes. So instead of continuing I decided to put it in the oiled bowl and let it rise for 90 minutes.

Five. Once the dough doubled I cut it in half and shaped it into loafs. I put them in two 9x5 oiled pans and let them rise for 90 mins, long enough for it to get over the ridges

Six. Bake for 20 mins at 350F, then switch places, bake for another 20-30 minutes
Seven. Fresh loaves out of the oven... now wait 1 hour before slicing

Verdict: Freaking fantastic!!!!! inside was uber soft and had a great molasses undertone. However I'll probably slice and freeze the second loaf. It's a heavy bread and with just the two of us I'm afraid the second loaf won't make it without preservatives. Definitely gonna make chili to accompany this one!

Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge

After scrolling around the web looking for bread recipes I came across The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart. The boy being awesome decided to get me a copy :) Many bloggers across the web decided to start up a challenge of baking all the recipes. The challenge has long ended but regardless I figured that I could start it up for myself.
I'll be recording my attempts at baking all the recipes. I won't be including the recipes since it's definitely worth the buy plus I don't exactly have permission either!

I've technically already started using the book, we just ate the loaf so fast I didn't have time to take pictures :P

I'll be trying to keep a continuous record of my attempts. The first one being Anadama bread. Come back tomorrow for more bread baking!