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La Cerise: Croissants, Recap of Trials and Tribulations
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Explorations in baking and photography. Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Croissants, Recap of Trials and Tribulations. See April 2008 update below. Oh good, I overcame the fear of croissants induced by my last failure. And made this pretty batch. I used Pierre Hermé's recipe. But increased the water significantly. His recipe specifies 200g (even suggests you start with only two thirds of this amount), whereas I believe I used 320g this time. See the update below). Or maybe they didn't proof enough*. I rolled out...
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La Cerise: Gingerbread
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Explorations in baking and photography. Friday, December 19, 2008. Above is a box of goodies I put together as a gift. It contains gingerbread, pinwheel cookies, brown sugar cut-out cookies. Or pecan tartlets. (The box was photographed in the snow on our balcony.). I love to bake and decorate gingerbread. The house smells good of baking and spices. Gingerbread dough is sturdy and the cookies can be formed in intricate patterns for decorations. The weather contributed to the seasonal cheer. I haven't chan...
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La Cerise: I Did It!
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Explorations in baking and photography. Wednesday, July 12, 2006. We had a major celebration yesterday, the return of Ulysses, three days after his birthday. So I went all out on the cake (actually forgetting to plan dinner itself). I decided to make Alice Medrich's Chocolate Raspberry Ruffle Cake as per the PBS video website. I keep referring to. I've made a variation on this cake before. But this time I wanted to do try to make her chocolate decorations as well. Wrapping the cake in chocolate. July 12,...
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La Cerise: Macarons
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Explorations in baking and photography. Thursday, April 24, 2008. I feel ready to post about macarons. Several years after the craze hit the blogging world, I can finally say I have made some myself. My first really successful macarons were the lemon ones on the left, using chef Pang's recipe. The chocolate ones were the funny baseball cap ones I mentioned earlier. And the caramel-hazelnut ones on the right were too wet and their feet spread out too much. Of course) and Chef Pang Kok Keong. I then tried ...
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La Cerise: March 2010
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Explorations in baking and photography. Monday, March 08, 2010. The return of the croquembouche. Please. If you are a friend of mine, and you're turning 40, don't invite me to a big party to celebrate it. I might have to offer to make a croquembouche again. One year later, I made another one. OK, so maybe give me a year to get over this one, and then invite me to your party. After all, I did get to dance at the last one, and that in itself is worth a croquembouche to me! Though they did disappear. I ...
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La Cerise: Happy Holidays!
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Explorations in baking and photography. Saturday, December 19, 2009. I am still baking! And reading other food blogs. Just not much time to post to La Cerise. But I hope to do better in 2010. In the meantime, you can find my basic gingerbread recipe here. Have a lovely end of the year! Another post and pics! Have a very Merry Christmas in Paris! What Ho to you all! December 23, 2009 6:26 PM. Happy Holidays to you too :). December 28, 2009 12:05 PM. Have a wonderful rest of 2010! February 04, 2010 10:09 AM.
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La Cerise: August 2009
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Explorations in baking and photography. Friday, August 07, 2009. Meringue d'automne, or the joys and frustrations of being self-taught. Apologies for my long silence, I've been very busy with a new project, which I'll post about soon. But I still bake! But self-teaching has its limits, and I keep stumbling upon baking mysteries I can't solve even with the help of on-line resources. Saga), I decided to summarize what I've learned in the drawing below:. Version number 1, October 2006:. Ta-da, I found a sol...
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La Cerise: September 2009
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Explorations in baking and photography. Friday, September 04, 2009. How this blog helped me choose my new profession. This food blog is three and a half years old. I have had a wonderful time working on it, and plan to continue updating it as often as possible. Still, at times I wondered what my motivation was. And then in February, I read about a new profession, and had a revelation: I wanted to become a visual explainer. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). C'est moi qui l'ai fait! Plum or A...
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La Cerise: December 2009
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Explorations in baking and photography. Saturday, December 19, 2009. I am still baking! And reading other food blogs. Just not much time to post to La Cerise. But I hope to do better in 2010. In the meantime, you can find my basic gingerbread recipe here. Have a lovely end of the year! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). C'est moi qui l'ai fait! Biscuits à la cuillère (ladyfingers). Butter pecan ice cream. Chocolate mousse cake with caramelized almonds. Chocolate Princess (cake decoration).
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La Cerise: Meringue d'automne, or the joys and frustrations of being self-taught
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Explorations in baking and photography. Friday, August 07, 2009. Meringue d'automne, or the joys and frustrations of being self-taught. Apologies for my long silence, I've been very busy with a new project, which I'll post about soon. But I still bake! But self-teaching has its limits, and I keep stumbling upon baking mysteries I can't solve even with the help of on-line resources. Saga), I decided to summarize what I've learned in the drawing below:. Version number 1, October 2006:. Ta-da, I found a sol...
