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I live in Northern VA. :)I'm also planning a cookie baking day this month. Mostly because two of the cookies I wanted to try to make, I didn't have time for in December. So I'm going to try them out and I just need the time to do it.
Yesterday I spent all day baking. I made 14 meals. I also made 17 large waffles. I blogged it in three parts. Wouldn't it be fun to blog about making Criollo?
Im no that far from you im in NC, yes that would be fun
Lady Ozma wrote: "I live in Northern VA. :)I'm also planning a cookie baking day this month. Mostly because two of the cookies I wanted to try to make, I didn't have time for in December. So I'm going to try them ..."
Wow! What a marathon!
LOL ok maybe it is a little bit away but not that far most people I talk on the other side of the map LOL
I already made my batch and it was yummy. I still have half of it left from last night. I'm already thinking of some ways to change it slightly.
ummm sounds very good, Hope it turns out really good for you
Wow sounds fun hahaha i want to make criollo but i can't cook or bake anything...o well
I tell my fiance that I just follow directions well, but he still thinks I'm a great cook. I bet you could make something, even if it means spicing up a brownie mix with some chocolate chips, or fudge or something.
I see I'm not alone in my none baking skills, that makes me feel a little bit better hahaha, my hubby tells me to just follow the directions and it still doesnt come out as good as his. I just dont understand it.
Maybe I have that extra something. Not sure how I got it. My fiance can make tacos... yeah...
there are certain things that I can cook but not very many, I can make a Garlic Roasted chicken very well, but he deserts I don't seem to have the touch lol
Desserts is a totally different category of cooking in itself. I'm only so so at desserts.
yes that is me I will just go and by my chocolate when I need it HEHE
Oh see, I LOVE to bake. Not cook. HAHA I'm definitely better with baking!!!Meme, you might not be that far away. I went to university in High Point. That only took me 4: 15 to get to. I also lived in Jacksonville and that was about 5 hours away. Those aren't bad drives at all. Though a bit far for a cookie delivery ;) HAHA
So it all depends on where you are. If you live over by NC/TN/VA corner? Now that's freaking forever. LOL
I live in NC so yes it could be forever :(
North Carolina is a very wide state. I remember crossing it when living in Jacksonville to get to TN with my husband. I thought we'd never get out of it. ROFL So yeah, it could be pretty far. I liked High Point. The Piedmont Triad Area is really pretty. I keep thinking maybe I'll go back for a visit, but can't seem to ever figure it out. LOL
Lady Ozma wrote: "Oh see, I LOVE to bake. Not cook. HAHA I'm definitely better with baking!!!Meme, you might not be that far away. I went to university in High Point. That only took me 4: 15 to get to. I also l..."
I'm with you! I can't cook to save my life from the Devil himself. I can bake though. My husband does all the cooking. If he didn't I'd probably never eat at home.
Isn't there a total difference? I'm sub par on both, but I find that my cooking is improving and that well, with my diet, I'm not improving on my baking. Plus going from a gas to an electric stove.. I burned my first cookies in YEARS! GAH!
I think there's a big difference!!!OMG I hate gas. I had a gas stove for a year and a half roughly. It was awful. I totally gave up baking/cooking. Nothing would cook properly!!!!!!!!!!! It was either raw or burned. It had weird tastes. Plus the migraine I'd get every time I fired that thing up... bad.
I decided if God still wanted me to cook over an open flame, I'd not have the luxury of nice and clean electricity. LOL
I was so glad when we moved out of that place. I vowed to never have to use gas again!
I grew up on gas stoves... so I'm not used to the electric. If I put it too close to the bottom it burns too quickly, so now I just switch the two sheets half way through and its solved the problem.
Lady Ozma wrote: "North Carolina is a very wide state. I remember crossing it when living in Jacksonville to get to TN with my husband. I thought we'd never get out of it. ROFL So yeah, it could be pretty far. I..."
I live about an hour away from highpoint
That's really weird. I gotta admit, I don't get the whole oven rack thing. Probably half my problem with cooking. I stick everything on medium hi on the top. I stick everything in the oven on the rack in the middle of the oven. ROFLThat said, when I bake my cookies I put them on my baking stone and then stick it on that rack that's fairly in the middle. Poof perfect cookies. It used to take about 10-12 minutes but now I have a convection oven and it's taking about 8 minutes. Schweet! I'm learning this convection thing, but so far I'm LOVING it! Since I bake a LOT (bread and desserts) the convection is really cool!
But the gas, seems no matter what it wouldn't cook or it would burn. Maybe because I didn't do the whole oven rack thingie? Just stuck it on that one that's in the middle and tried to cook it from there?
Kristen wrote: "I grew up on gas stoves... so I'm not used to the electric. If I put it too close to the bottom it burns too quickly, so now I just switch the two sheets half way through and its solved the problem. "I really wish I could blame my inability to bake on a gas stove but I have never had one so any other suggestions I could blame it on besides for myself :)
Lady Ozma wrote: "That's really weird. I gotta admit, I don't get the whole oven rack thing. Probably half my problem with cooking. I stick everything on medium hi on the top. I stick everything in the oven on th..."OK now you see why do you have to change the rack that is just getting to complicating for me LOL
Same here, Meme. I only do something if I have something like a ham or turkey cooking. Since I never cook ham or turkey, this isn't really an issue. I baked a turkey once. It actually came out decent (surprised me!) but I got flack from the family. I've never made thanksgiving dinner again. Humph. My one rack is way down low out of the way. The other is as close to center as it can be. That's the one I always cook on. It stays there. :)
yes that is mine also, my hubby does a really good ham and turkey (have you tried deep fried turkey) he makes it amazing. the stove top I can work better as long as I don't have to fry anything i'm not good with that I do better on a deep fryer. and here I go going off topic again lol sorry guys
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Don't know if anyone's answered this yet:
(From memory of my barista years...)
It's honestly not that special. All regular coffee shops use Arabica beans (at least we hope). There are 2 species of coffee beans: Arabica and Robusta. Robusta is the stuff they use for instant coffee and it makes up about 90% of the world's coffee supply; 10% being Arabica (statistics are probably different now). It's said that Arabica is "high quality," but it's obvious we've all tasted bad coffee from a corporate coffee shop before... So, my argument is that the quality comes from the roast.
I can see why the description would use that as a comparison though. Criollo must be more rare.
Gisela wrote: "It's okay, we forgive you!"aww thank you sometimes my mind just starts to wonder
I have no idea how I get my meat so perfect when I cook dinner. I just follow instructions... My dad helps me a lot over the phone, so that may be it. He's a superb cook. The only tv station he watches is the Food Network.
I can't stand watching much of any TV, nonetheless tv shows that makes me hungry... If there's a tv show I want to watch, I wait until it's available on Netflix or Hulu.com
My FIL lives for the food channel! But you know what? They make so much good food!!! So it works!!!
If he watches food network, I'll back you up. Seriously, my inlaws are awesome and most of what they get is from there. I try watching and it makes me nearly have a nervous breakdown. I always find the shows where they are making something unpronounceable with 47 ingredients I've never heard of let alone could find in the store and it is like "Cooking time 7.5 hours". It looks great when they are done but I just know that there's no way I could replicate it. And even if I did - my husband would poopoo it. He's the pickiest eater ever.
Why I find Gourmet Chef Know How, I'll never know. Me? I want something like "How to make something amazingly tastey with 3 ingredients if you are a complete cooking moron."
But I learned how to zest a lemon a couple of years ago and that was really cool. That's FANCY! I've never used it since, but it could come in handy one day! I'm debating buying a zester, just in case! HEHE
Lady Ozma,if you add lemon zest to store bought cake mix, it tastes like homemade lemon cake. You can also add it to vanilla flavored instant pudding, vanilla ice cream, yogurt, etc.
Gisela Good to know! I'm going to a pampered chef party on Monday... maybe I'll get that lemon zester! (It's an adoption fundraiser for a friend of mine. I gotta buy SOMETHNG!)
Lemon zest is yummy in muffins too. I like making banana muffins with lemon zest. A lot of my recipes are low fat and low cal b/c of my diet. I steal lots of recipes from the Weight Watchers website.
Good to know! I'll have to remember that. I need to make some banana bread. Kinda wishing I could throw some zest in. HA!
Hey, try it! Also, maybe whisk together some lemon juice and powdered sugar, drizzle it over the bread and you get a little bit of a different taste. That's what I do for my for the muffins that I make.
Well, I would try it but I don't have any lemons or a zester. So... oh well. I do have 3 BLACK bananas. Ick! Perfect for bread though!
Darn... I tried. Hey I found out a trick if you want to make something with bananas before they go bad. You put them in the freezer for a few hours and then take them out. When they thaw they're all mushy.
Kristen wrote: "Darn... I tried. Hey I found out a trick if you want to make something with bananas before they go bad. You put them in the freezer for a few hours and then take them out. When they thaw they're al..."WOW this is the wrong thread to be reading early in the morning now I'm really hungry :( thank y'all for the tips, If I can make them right I can always tell hubby how to do and it will come out great! lol
There's a lot of banana recipes out on the web, you could probably find some good ones, print it out for your hubby, hand it to him and say "make this".
LOL yes that sounds exactly like me "hubby this looks really good I think YOU should make this.
well OK you have me just right hehe, so has anyone made there Criollo or there t shirts yet?
I made my Crillo.. I still have to upload and send the pics to Alethea though.
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