Sunday, September 28, 2008

life and times of the spiteful baker

I moved. I have a brand new oven. Well, not brand new, but new to me. The model name of this oven... Caloric. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Along with my new oven, a new roommate who makes the best chocolate chip cookies ever and has doubled my already enormous collection of mixing bowls, baking pans, muffin tins and cookie sheets. This can not be a bad thing.

What else is new? Well I discovered this totally awesome food blog. It makes me wonder, why are photographers so good at cooking.. or is it that cooks are so good a photographing. Either way, Deb's blog has inspired me to do things like make pretzels!


















Make the dough, let it rise, roll it out, make the special pretzely shape, boil them.






















Drop some of those slippery suckers on the floor and finally, bake them in the oven. Tah Dah!
Beer's bestest friend and a mighty fine vehicle for mustard.



I have not only been drooling over blogs and baking pretzels. I also made a beautiful bundt cake by following Gina Neely's recipe. You may think that pound cake is dullsville daddy-o. But trust me on this. This one is a winner!

More baking from my kitchen soon, it is apple and pumpkin season after all....