So the results are in - batch number 1 - hamentashen with apricot filling - soft, tasty and eaten up pretty quickly
batch number 2 - delicious chocolate filling (baking chocolate melted ) but slightly over baked- really good inside, but being kept in the oven for about 45 seconds to long, made for quite a crunchy cookie
and the winner is.... some sort of combo of both? Overall the hamentashen were good but had to be super careful not to over bake and to make sure they were stored tightly so they wouldn't get stale. Overall I prefer a really soft hamentashen.
Our next contestant was the Chocolate Mousse Cake. Looked so good in the picture in the cookbook that we must have messed up. I guess that can happen when your sous chefs are 9 yro and 2 yro. Our Mousse cake did not look the same and it didn't taste so good either. I will not accept failure on this one.
I am going to grant this contestant immunity and give it another shot at success.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Cookbook Link
Many people have asked what cookbook I have been using. I am using one called Temptations.
I have attached a link on the side if anyone is interested.
I have attached a link on the side if anyone is interested.
Help Wanted
I have been a little slow in my cooking the past few weeks as I have been traveling out of town.
I was concerned that while I was away my children might fall behind of their homework, forget to bathe or eat cookies for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
No need for me to worry - turns out while I was traveling my children flourished. Not only doing what was expected but actually picking up some new skills along the way. They even began thinking ahead to possible career choices and beginning to develop those areas:
Beautician- giving each other haircuts and yogurt based face masks
Horticulture- attempting to use all house lamps available to help their tu bshvat plants grow
scientist- lots and lots of experiments
Lawyer - worked on establishing a case with supportive evidence to eat Cocoa Puffs for dinner and working on their "gym" homework by playing Wii games.
Thankfully cooking was not one of those things they attempted to "develop" without me.
Now that I am back in the swing of things and ready to cook again I asked my kids what I should prepare for dinner. A. voted for meatballs, so I purchased all the correct ingredients this time and by the time I got home from the store at 10 PM and began preparing the meatballs only then did I notice that the recipe said for them to cook for 2 hours! No way I was going to be able to stay up that late for meatballs. So I halved the recipe and figured I could cook them for about half the time. I think it worked out okay they looked cooked to me and then we have lots of extra tomato sauce to use for the spaghetti.
The other thing my kids requested was desserts - not much of a surprise.
This weekend we will be attempting Chocolate Mousse Cake and finally will work on the hamentashen. Apricot lekvar, chocolate chips, strawberry jam and marshmelow fluff are some of our favorite fillings- What's yours?
I was concerned that while I was away my children might fall behind of their homework, forget to bathe or eat cookies for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
No need for me to worry - turns out while I was traveling my children flourished. Not only doing what was expected but actually picking up some new skills along the way. They even began thinking ahead to possible career choices and beginning to develop those areas:
Beautician- giving each other haircuts and yogurt based face masks
Horticulture- attempting to use all house lamps available to help their tu bshvat plants grow
scientist- lots and lots of experiments
Lawyer - worked on establishing a case with supportive evidence to eat Cocoa Puffs for dinner and working on their "gym" homework by playing Wii games.
Thankfully cooking was not one of those things they attempted to "develop" without me.
Now that I am back in the swing of things and ready to cook again I asked my kids what I should prepare for dinner. A. voted for meatballs, so I purchased all the correct ingredients this time and by the time I got home from the store at 10 PM and began preparing the meatballs only then did I notice that the recipe said for them to cook for 2 hours! No way I was going to be able to stay up that late for meatballs. So I halved the recipe and figured I could cook them for about half the time. I think it worked out okay they looked cooked to me and then we have lots of extra tomato sauce to use for the spaghetti.
The other thing my kids requested was desserts - not much of a surprise.
This weekend we will be attempting Chocolate Mousse Cake and finally will work on the hamentashen. Apricot lekvar, chocolate chips, strawberry jam and marshmelow fluff are some of our favorite fillings- What's yours?
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