(As previously posted in my blog post: “Tips for Better Baking: Dairy Products and other Liquids“) I made this recipe for a cake commission some time ago; it was actually one of my first cake commissions (ever), and while I was still in Culinary School. A South American coworker had asked if I could find…
Month: December 2020
Recipe Post: Sea Salt and Thyme Focaccia
Of all the bread products I love to bake myself and eat in equal measure, my favourite would be focaccia. I’d say croissants, but those are far less fun and take far more time and effort to make than to eat, and I’m just not *that* masochistic. Never mind that I justified purchasing my pricy…
Frugality Mentality: Saving $$ Part 1 – Dollar stores versus Discount stores
This is a new mini-series of non-recipe discussion posts I’m going to try out to see if there’s any interest out there. My purpose for this post is to try to explain the why of how consumers access products, specifically food, and why there are such giant price and availability disparities across the nation. I…
Recipe Post: Vegan Cashew “Cheese” Spread
I love cheese. I really do. With the exception of most blue cheeses that smell like stinky feet (eughhhh…) there are few that I don’t enjoy in some capacity. However, cheese does not love me. Or more specifically, my body has a love/hate relationship with this delicious substance, to the point where sometimes I need…
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