joeljkp's Reviews
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| Date | Rating | Recipe Title
Bon Appetit
(March, 2011)
Delicious, and quite straightforward to make. I'm not experienced with scratch-made cakes in any way, but I was able to come up with something that looks and tastes exactly like I imagined. Keeps in the fridge for a good while; it's about a week later at this point and still going strong (though a little more dense than it started). Highly recommended.
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The Bread Bible: 300 Favorite Recipes
By Beth Hensperger
Chronicle Books - 2004
A very good basic white loaf. I haven't made bread by hand in years (so long that I can't remember the last time), but this came out great the first time. My only confusion was with shaping the dough at the end; a diagram or illustration would be much appreciated! After looking at videos online, I concluded that after shaping the dough into a long rectangle, you should fold it in thirds along the short dimension, not the long. I did it the opposite way, but it came out great anyway!
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Easy Comfort Food: Simple Recipes for Feel-good Favorites
By Ryland Peters & Small
Ryland Peters & Small - 2008
Easy to make and tasted great, that's about all I could ask for. My oven runs hot (I've noticed over many recipes), but it became hard to turn the meatballs after 10 minutes of roasting. I did two batches, and for the second I put them directly on the baking sheet instead of using aluminum foil. Much easier.
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The picture doesn't look very appetizing unfortunately, but the cookies themselves were. They turned out not as overwhelmingly sweet as others I've made, which was a welcome improvement. The only change I would recommend is to mix in the butter and eggs before adding the chocolate chips and nuts, just for ease in creaming the butter. Otherwise an excellent recipe.
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Makes a very rich and incredibly moist brownie (appearing almost undercooked in the center), though at the cost of twice the eggs and a full 5x the chocolate of my other standard recipe (from Bittman's How to Cook Everything). I'm not convinced it's worth all the extra trouble to save some flour.
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Simple chocolatey cookies. Good recipe.
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A bit gooey, yet crumbly. Ok flavor, nothing special.
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Food and Wine
(January, 2010)
Delicious result, but a lot of work - for me about double the time given in the recipe. I was cooking for one, so I made the entire batch of sauce and saved it (as suggested in the recipe), then did individual chicken breasts for each meal. A personal favorite was the limes, I'd probably weight it more heavily toward them in the future.
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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
By Mark Bittman, Alan Witschonke
Wiley - 2007
Maybe the ratios are off. I've made the base recipe (Sandwich Bread) many times, but this variation only succeeded in making a dense, rock-hard dough ball that didn't rise at all.
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