December Daring Bakers
posted by joeli under Daring Bakers
This month's challenge is brought to us by the adventurous Hilda from Saffron and Blueberry and Marion from Il en Faut Peu Pour Etre Heureux. They have chosen a French Yule Log by Flore from Florilege Gourmand.
I apologize in advance for the poor photos. This month was a bit rushed.
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More failures and sugar cookies
posted by joeli under cookies
Before I started this blog, baking was a bit easier. If things came out bad, it was alright. My husband and I ate whatever it was and no one had to know about it. Now when this happens I either have to pony up and write about it or figure out something else to make and blog about. There were also no pictures to take so things were often eaten straight out of the oven. I'm still not quite used to taking photos and despite some earlier success I've been having trouble lately taking good photos. I am going to blame this on the fact that it is December and my little town in England is permanently gray. The other trouble is that, like so many others, my husband and I spent the past two weeks feeling very poorly. I made some sugar cookies though to try and cheer things up!
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New commenting procedure
posted by joeli under misc
I've (and when I say "I", I mean my husband) added a new spam blocker to the comments (because I really can't spend all day deleting spam comments). In order to comment you now have to answer the question "What is 1+1?". The answer is, of course, 2 (or two, I'm not picky). My husband wrote this code and we're both crossing our fingers that this allows all nonspammers to leave a comment. If you have any problems with it PLEASE email me (joeli at joeliskitchen dot com) or bug me on twitter.
Thanks!
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Attempted donuts
posted by joeli under failures
Not everything I make comes out good. Most of the time if it's rubbish it doesn't make it to this blog, because really who can be bothered to take pictures of something that you know is crap? But this time I took the photos before any were tried (and we discovered how bad they came out) and so you get to see my failure.
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Oatmeal cookies
posted by joeli under cookies
It's December and boy does it sure feel it! Dec 1 we woke up to find the temperature was -5C. Now, this would be considered pretty warm when I lived in Boston but here in England it's gosh darn cold! Cold weather needs cookies in my opinion so I got right on it and baked these oatmeal cookies.
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