BethNH's Profile

From: , NH USA

Joined: December 16th, 2010

About me: I've been cooking and baking since I was a child and collecting cookbooks almost that long. Years ago, I lost my entire collection in a flood and I've been slowly building it back up. I cook for my husband and three sons who are not very adventurous eaters. We're on the go a lot with sports and school schedules. I love to bake and my boys and their friends appreciate all manner of baked goods.

Favorite cookbook: King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

Ginger Pork Meatballs with Cilantro and Fish Sauce from Dinner: Changing the Game

These meatballs and the dipping sauce were to die for delicious. Although there was a lot of chopping the recipe was easy to follow. Everyone loved it and we will definitely make this again. read more >

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How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food

By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2006

Baking powder leavened pancakes. These cook up nice and fluffy - more like the Bisquick pancakes my boys grew up on.

These are quite easy to pull together with basic pantry ingredients. They're not the perfect recipe (I haven't found it yet) but they're really quite good.

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This is one of the variations listed with Bittman's Basic Muffins recipe. The recipe includes a streusel - half of which is mixed into the batter and the other half of which is sprinkled on top of the muffins before they're baked.

The muffins are pretty good - good enough that I ate two. The streusel, however, sank right through the muffins rather than sitting nicely on top. The muffins looked like they had little rivers running through them.

The muffins tasted quite good but they were certainly not the most attractive.

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I made this dough with my KitchenAide and despite Bittman's warnings, it has no problem handling the dough. The dough came together quite nicely. I let it knead for about 5 minutes and left it to rise in the room with the wood stove.

It rolled out quite nicely with very little pull back.

I'd use this again.

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My husband is generally the waffle maker in our family and he's always used Bisquick for his waffles. This morning, however, there was no Bisquick and I suggested we just make our own.

I quickly skimmed a couple of books but this recipe required no special ingredients (not even buttermilk) and so it was chosen. The batter came together in no time and didn't need to rest before being used.

The recipe produced eight large waffles. The waffles were a little dense but had a nice crisp exterior. The taste was delicious and all three boys loved them.

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