Friday, April 11, 2008

Possible Ventures

How much easier it would be to experiment with food if most of it disappeared after I'd had a few bites and shared a few more and all my supplies spontaneously replenished themselves. List of things to try:
  • Almond butter cookies sandwiched with a chocolate ginger or citrus cream filling and more flour in the cookie dough
  • Pie babies with a jam filling
  • Something made with almond paste/marzipan/frangipane
  • Brown sugar cake in my best darn imitation of Paley's Place (mmmmmmmmm)
  • A science-themed multi-course dinner involving dry ice, thermos glassware, sodium alginate, black pepper extract/crystals, etc.
  • Breakfast Party #2! and not revisit anything I made for #1
  • Cooking meat (I mean really preparing and cooking, not my usual half-hearted sautéeing crap)
  • Better vegan treats
  • Fancy pastries
  • Candy making
  • Gingerbread made with honey to replace molasses and sugar
  • A new recipe from each of my cookbooks, excluding my #1 ladies Betty Crocker & Fannie Farmer
I should clarify the last item to "and excluding skinning or killing any animals per the Joy of Cooking" since I think I could go my entire life without ever having to make soup from any future children's pet turtles or skinning a beaver. Currently I'm in Kansas city visiting maternal relatives. I have never missed fresh produce and foods without cheese sauce and an excess of salt so much!

2 comments:

Lyndsay said...


These
have been on my to make list for a long time, but because neither almond paste or pine nuts are very cheap, they've been moved down. I thought I would share them with you as a possible almond paste use.

e.ferol said...

Oh YUM. Those look amazing! I get a huge bag of pine nuts in my stocking every Christmas, and it lasts all year.

I have a couple recipes for making almond paste; it doesn't seem too difficult. I'm going to try this recipe next week!