We made meyer lemon curd (pictured above with a scone from the Bake Shop), honey sea-salt caramels, and Pecorino-black pepper-rosemary shortbread. It was slightly disastrous-- the curd turned out fine on the first try-- the cans even magically sealed-- but the caramels didn't set overnight, so we had to reheat them to try to get them up to the "hard ball" stage, and then we burned the whole batch and had to start from scratch; the shortbread recipe was seriously faulty, and we had to keep adding butter until it held together as a batter. In the end, everything was delicious, but Katie & I are not bakers or candymakers. End of story. Next year for Christmas, we'll just make people dinner.Monday, December 24, 2007
Solstice Goodies
We made meyer lemon curd (pictured above with a scone from the Bake Shop), honey sea-salt caramels, and Pecorino-black pepper-rosemary shortbread. It was slightly disastrous-- the curd turned out fine on the first try-- the cans even magically sealed-- but the caramels didn't set overnight, so we had to reheat them to try to get them up to the "hard ball" stage, and then we burned the whole batch and had to start from scratch; the shortbread recipe was seriously faulty, and we had to keep adding butter until it held together as a batter. In the end, everything was delicious, but Katie & I are not bakers or candymakers. End of story. Next year for Christmas, we'll just make people dinner.
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listen fellow food pervs! The lemon curd you see above was amazing. i have to tell you, i don't really like goopy things. But this...well, what can i say. if George Bush ate this, i'm sure the world would be a better place.
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