Am a cook of convenience. I know some dishes well. Well enough to replicate with consistency in taste and look. The rest I make up as I go along. It’s worked great for me and the family so far. Let’s forget the husband for a wee bit here.
I am no baker. I built it up slowly from the age of 20 back home on that pineapple upside down cake and was going uphill up until 2003. I made lovely brownies from Duncan Hines boxes, and the kids were innocent enough to eat it and think Mom’s awesomest ever! Then apparently during the pregnancy and the subsequent birth of my munchkin I shed that skill or it dumped me. The jury’s out but the repercussions persist.
My life in the kitchen has never been the same again.
They don’t call me tenacious for nothing. I don’t give up until I die trying. So I do, once in awhile of course, just so I don’t exhaust folks around me trying to keep up.
I got a brownie pack again. Baked. I got this.
- Look: Black
- Taste: Burnt
- Feel: BoneHard.
I let it go.
Tried again a few days back, in a fit of enthusiasm on welcoming the kids home after they were at camp for a few days. I woke up early, fired the oven, opened the Duncan Hines again, broke the eggs, poured the oil and counted the 50 strokes, and cajoled the mix into teeny little bundt pans. Watched the timer like a hawk and Voila, pulled them out in time. They smelt great. Here:
- Look: Browner than Brown
- Taste: Bien!
- Feel: BoneHard.
Note to self: Baby steps girl, baby steps. 1.5 out of three ain’t bad at all. We’ll get through this together. Keep baking. We’ll get ’em foodies one day. Yeah baby we will.
Those look rather nice. Unfortunately, they are not vegetarian.
You know the one thing that I’d really like to perfect is making a good loaf of bread. It’s a very European thing, and that’s a skill that’s very hard to find.
Metlin, coz they have egg? I suppose I could make them without egg and the results wouldn’t differ much :
..and o yes!Amen@European bread. *dreaming of those baguettes now*
Lana usually uses silken tofu or heavy whipping cream – both of those can be used as good alternatives to eggs.
Oh yes, there are egg alternatives 🙂 I was wondering more on my own luck!
I was going to send you some other bread. Mebbe I could send you some baguette as well 🙂 ( Our baguettes so far have sucked :|) But other breads are fantastic. The next one in your name 😉
I love those bundt pans!
What? Traitor! I expected you to at least laugh at my “baking skills” 🙁
yes, pls send, maybe I’d be inspired!
YUM!
La Vida, you didn’t read the Feel factor of those cute bundts did you? 🙁
I remember my mom baking a cake onc which even the dog wouldn’t eat. Baking’s touch. My sympathies. All the best
Thank you Naren. You cme through for me. I shall persevere, and I shall win. I promise.
I am no baking expert, but I have been lucky at the kitchen with things! My mom’s a culinary genius, so that might explain a few things! The first batch of brownies will come in good use for kambal pitaai, but the second one has set me off drooling! I sure want to eat some today. Grocery store, here I come. 🙂
lol, so how did the baking go? Am thinking much better than mine turned?! 🙂
LOL@Kambal Pitaai.
Do you have a convection oven? as opposed to a conventional oven? Try taking it out a little earlier.
You are on your way to being a baker, it does look good.
o, I cant blame the oven. This is all my talent!;-)
Yeah, I guess I should. Decided am torturing all once a week!
The first picture looks like appams
appams? 😐 That’s coz you’re craving for them me thinks?
As you said yourself, keep trying 😉 Have to try brownies next time on a bundt pan.
heh, the bundts are cute!
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Awesome ! You inspire me.
That brown thing will go well as a deser after this Rembrandt Curry.
Cheers!
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LOL!
Frankly I agree men can cook better than women, but just can’t live up to the expectations they set once they do!