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Do you often use recipe books to cook up cakes and stuff. like Stephanie from Lazy Town? :bigsmile:
I'm bored this summer, on the days that I don't work, so I think I'm going to try to become a decent baker and bake lots of cakes in lots of colors! I would greatly appreciate it if you were to suggest any baking cake recipe books for cooking noobs like me. :]
Sometimes I do sometimes I don't! It depends on what I'm cooking! :rolleyes2 But my recipe book is a notebook my mom made with time ^^" we have pretty common cakes: yogurt cake, chocolate, pudins, bavaroise...
Cookbooks are a starting point. If you are confident enough in your abilities to create meals, you should try and add your own certain twists on things. Makes things more fun.
I'm far too robotic to do things by myself. Unless it's something that requires no thinking (like green eggs and ham), I follow the recipe.
Which is not to say my cooking sucks. I can cook most anything from shrimp to steaks to creme brulee.
:D
ashley uses recipes and uses measuring cups and :skull::skull::skull::skull:e. i never use measuring cups; my cooking is always a little more organic, but i do take ideas from recipes.
I'll add in some ingredients but keep the rest for me;
I'm not being disobedient,
I'm careful can't you see?!
If I cook, I need to know how to do it. Usually it's my dad telling me 'knead that dough longer' but whatev.
Why are you watching Lazytown Rye? xD
Nah, I can't say that I wasn't, my neice was watching it I swear. > >
I normally cook from the book once or twice until I know how to exactly do it, and then after that I'll just try to remember how to do it and/or experiment. :razz:
Stiiingy <3Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
And I love Lazy Town. :[ It's one of my favorite shows.
Cooking by the book is wrong. You should get ideas on how to make things from cookbooks, but real cooking is done by taste testing and adjusting how much of what ingredient is used by taste and the need of the food.
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
I can make some kickass muffins! :)
That's about it really :(
Muffins are win :bigsmile:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sergeant Hartman
I get a lot of recipes from Foodnetwork and Chowhound. Also, since my new ambition for the summer is to be a cupcake baker extraordinaire, I've been reading a lot of cup cake blogs.
I think it helps to find recipes that other people have already tried so that you can get tips from those people and find out if the recipe is any good. Foodnetwork has a review section on each recipe so you can see what other people thought of the recipe. Chowhound is nothing BUT opinions about recipes. And blogs give personal and individual accounts of recipes. I never ever cook straight out of a cookbook unless I'm somehow assured that the end product is going to be yummy.
But... The cake could end up crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldenboko
Depends what I am making. Desserts and such I follow recipes, mostly my mom's from wherever she got her recipes.
For meals I tend not to follow a recipe, especially when I am making spaghetti sauce, which my dad taught me. I have made it enough times to know what I should put in it and to vary it from time to time or try something new. Since I am lazy and like to keep things simple, I usually do not do anything complicated for my meals anyways. (Especially since I work in a kitchen, dishwashing, so when I am working I get a free meal anyways).
Especially if it's a messy recipe.Quote:
Originally Posted by ObsidianBut... The cake could end up crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldenboko
Thanks a ton guys! I'll look around online and in stores and stuff. I know that real cooking is done by invention, but I've never really baked much before, even though I'm like, 17 (tomorrow), besides some from-the-box cupcakes with my Mom. So I need to take baby steps. xD
Baking is a tad different. But sauces, seasonings, and etc. should have variation!Quote:
Originally Posted by ObsidianBut... The cake could end up crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Goldenboko
Goldenboko misses the joke :'(
A Veggie Venture - Vegetable inspiration from Asparagus to Zucchini has some interesting recipes I have wanted to try forever but never have yet.
Yes I do. And I'm damn proud of my lack of humor! ;pQuote:
Originally Posted by rubah
I'd rather die then watch that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
This makes no sense. It's like "I'd rather be stabbed repeatedly than make love to a beautiful woman whom I love and who loves me equally."Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenbokoI'd rather die then watch that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
Or like "I do not want to eat this incredibly tasty pie."
... Lazytown=Annoying!Quote:
Originally Posted by I'm my own MILFThis makes no sense. It's like "I'd rather be stabbed repeatedly than make love to a beautiful woman whom I love and who loves me equally."Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenbokoI'd rather die then watch that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
Or like "I do not want to eat this incredibly tasty pie."
Phone books have plenty of listings for insane asylums, I suggest you use this as a starting point. Because nothing you are saying makes any sense whatsoever.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenbokoI'd rather die then watch that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rye
I use recipes as a rough guideline. One time I was making cranberry bread and the recipe called for four eggs so I used one. That was some dry cranberry bread.
Julianna for the win.
Whatever you make, be sure to add plenty of cowbell.