Posted by Emily on Jan 17, 2013 in Cookies | 0 comments
I’m sorry for the lack of updates recently! I haven’t been in the kitchen much in the last month since I’ve been recovering from a kitchen accident with my immersion blender that landed me in the ER with six stitches to one of my fingertips. (If you want something that’ll explain it more tastefully than I ever could you should read this article that was in the NYTimes the other day.) I’m back in action though and my frankenfinger isn’t holding me back any longer! Hopefully this means my regular posting schedule will return soon enough while I ease back into the kitchen a little more.
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Posted by Emily on Jul 26, 2012 in Cookies, Dessert | 0 comments
I have a confession to make. I’m obsessed with America’s Test Kitchen. I know, it seems fairly self-serving to be so completely and totally enamored with them, but I can’t help it now that I’ve seen the extensive testing that they do on every recipe that they publish. There are some recipes that I’ve made for Cook’s Illustrated at least thirty times because I’ve been tweaking little details like cook time, liquid amounts, or amounts of leavening ingredients (and that’s just as an intern!)
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Posted by Emily on Sep 21, 2011 in Cookies | 0 comments
Time is a funny thing. You can spend months and months planning for your future, and before you know it your future is here. That’s how things have felt with culinary school. Everything has been so crazy since the application process that I haven’t really had time to think about the reality of it all. And in the last few weeks the reality has definitely hit me. As of two weeks ago I’ve been a culinary school student. These first week of classes has been a real blur, but they’ve been an amazing blur nonetheless. I’ll write about classes more as time goes on, but for now I just want to say thank you to everyone that encouraged and supported me throughout all of this. I wouldn’t be here without you all and I really can’t thank you enough.
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Posted by Emily on Jul 20, 2011 in Cookies, Featured | 0 comments
I’ve been on a cookie kick this summer. Or rather, I’ve really been on a cookie kick this summer. Since high school cookies have been one of my favorite things to make for a lot of reasons. One reason being that once you get the pattern behind making them down the process itself is fairly calming: cream the butter and sugar, add the egg and vanilla, and slowly add in the dry ingredients. Another reason being that they’re so incredibly versatile and once you’re comfortable with a recipe (or bored with one) you can play around with it and do what you want.
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Posted by Emily on Jun 27, 2011 in Cookies | 1 comment
About a month ago I promised a recipe for homemade Girl Scout cookies, and even though it’s taken me a month to get myself to post this recipe the day is finally here. Now, it’s pretty apparent that I have a bit of an obsession about making things from scratch… things that most normal people wouldn’t even consider making from scratch. I guess I’m just weird like that, and I’ve completely come to terms with it.
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