Buttercream
I needed a buttercream recipe for macarons and found that most of the recipes I found (a) made way too much for what I needed and (b) were on sites with way too much bullshit. Say no to the sites with way too much bullshit....
Restoring Dried Starter
If you’re trying to restore your starter from a backup, or someone gave you some of their dried starter, here’s the steps to restore it and make it your own. First of all, weigh it. You need to know how much dried starter you’ve got. For the sake of...
Making a Backup of your Starter
Shit happens. You don’t mean to kill your starter, but shit happens. So be prepared. Drying Out Your Starter I’m sure there are lots of ways to do this but my method is to take a bit of parchment paper and a pastry brush, brush a little starter on...
Hypocrisy
Recently our local Raley’s grocery store became a “O-N-E” store — Organics, Nutrition, and Education. Okay. The first change we noticed was that a lot of common things we bought were gone. No more did they have Gallo Salami or the cheap-ass hot-dogs we buy to hide the dog’s...
Dog Biscuits 1
I recently bought some dog-themed (bones, paws, etc.) cookie cutters to make my own dog biscuits....