Tapioca pudding is an attractive dessert. Just look at it. Voluptuous little pearls of tapioca. Creamy pudding. Specks of vanilla bean. Juicy macerated strawberries ooze south filling every open crevice. It is downright lascivious. Slap me with a felony, if you must, but I just cannot stop oggling…or eating…or spoon licking. This is a dessert made for the […]
Today is the day I convince you to forsake store-bought beef stock forever. I’ll admit, there was a day when even the thought of making my own stock exhausted me into an afternoon nap. I grumbled about the cost of the ingredients, the time it would take out of my day when I could be […]
When it comes to granola, I am a picky bitch. Either the clusters aren’t big enough, or the fruit looks freeze dried. There may be too little nuts or too many. Sometimes it’s too sugary, or just not sweet enough. Sometimes the granola contains ingredients I can’t pronounce or identify. And if I manage to […]
When I was in pastry school, we were continuously pelted with a plethora of baking methods we had to memorize. Many of them, we were told, were ‘the only way to do it’ or else we would eff everything up. Since my classmates and I didn’t know any better, hence the need for schooling, we […]