Nothin' says luvin' like...
I have been a baking maniac the last few days. Thursday I made banana muffins using a recipe I got at my bridal shower. "Absolutely never fail and easy" was the tagline. If anyone wants it, I will post.
Yesterday, I made homemade tortillas for our lunch-time quesedillas. Then after the kids went to bed, I made cinnamon rolls and a loaf of bread from this recipe. I modified it by making the full-yeast version, but doing the second rise overnight in the fridge. A bit dense (the dough, not me) but still very good. I used almost all whole wheat pastry flour.
Then tonight, I made these cookies. Absolutely the easiest cookies ever. The recipe made 16 good sized cookies, with a bit of spare dough for tasting. (Yes, Steve, I am mostly over my fear of salmonella from cookie dough). I used shortening, and white flour. But hey, all the ingredients were organic! Which means the batch cost a bit more than two bits like the recipe says, but still pretty darned cheap.
In the midst of all this baking (or maybe because of it) I have re-ordered my kitchen somewhat so that I always have a clean work space. It makes everything sooooo much easier.
Yesterday, I made homemade tortillas for our lunch-time quesedillas. Then after the kids went to bed, I made cinnamon rolls and a loaf of bread from this recipe. I modified it by making the full-yeast version, but doing the second rise overnight in the fridge. A bit dense (the dough, not me) but still very good. I used almost all whole wheat pastry flour.
Then tonight, I made these cookies. Absolutely the easiest cookies ever. The recipe made 16 good sized cookies, with a bit of spare dough for tasting. (Yes, Steve, I am mostly over my fear of salmonella from cookie dough). I used shortening, and white flour. But hey, all the ingredients were organic! Which means the batch cost a bit more than two bits like the recipe says, but still pretty darned cheap.
In the midst of all this baking (or maybe because of it) I have re-ordered my kitchen somewhat so that I always have a clean work space. It makes everything sooooo much easier.
posted by Beth at 10:03 PM
3 Comments:
That's wonderful: all that baking and re-ordering the kitchen too. I have been working out in the yard, baking nothing but rhubarb pies. Actually, the other day I threw some leftover chicken stuff into some leftover pie crust and baked a little personal dinner pie. It was pretty good, I might try it again.
Anyway, I was wondering why you're using shortening instead of butter?
The cookie recipe called for shortening or margarine, and since I never use marg I used shortening. I have had trouble with cookies spreading too much when I use butter. I still use butter for most things, but it is so expensive and it doesn't always give the right consistency. Like the flour tortillas, they needed to be made with shortening.
Of course, the flour tortillas would be really good made w/ lard, but I am sure that is scary.
Lard is one of those things I never keep on hand - but it does make a difference in some things - Gram and GeeGee (my own grandma and my Toni-mom) often buy it and split the amount.
I have been making sugar cookies using the BH&G recipe for "Cream Cheese Cutouts" for the last 6 months or so - they are SO good and easy to roll. Only have to chill about an hour vs. my great-grandma Kirkendall's recipe with sour cream - which is an overnight project.
I aspire to bake bread in the new house.
Of course, it was over 90 here and humid, so I was not in the baking mood this weekend. Sounds yummy tho.
MIL brought a failed version of champagne cake to the party on Sunday. Sad b/c I love champagne cake.
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