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A collection of the latest recipes I have found.

Popovers

Popovers

For my birthday I got a nice popover pan. The pan is much deeper than a muffin pan a seems thicker and more sturdy. Popovers are fairly simple just consist...

Kimba fish toy

Kimba fish toy

Kimba really likes her new fish toy. She tosses it around and freaks out chasing it. Sometimes she will deliver it to us in her mouth with a lot of pride. ...

Sourdough pretzels

Sourdough pretzels

Sourdough pretzels are my favorite way to use my sourdough. I make pretzels every few weeks. The dough is similar to a pizza dough mostly flour, water, yeast...

Naan bread

Naan bread

Naan bread is an Indian flat bread. It can be made in a tandori oven but can just be made in a skillet if you don’t have a tandori oven. The dough is simil...

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip Cookies

One of my favorite cooking youtube channels is Whats Eating Dan? from Americas Test Kitchen. I like his episode on chocolate chip cookies. I learned the ch...

Sourdough crackers

Sourdough crackers

Crackers are a really nice and easy way to use discarded sourdough starter. There is enough liquid in the starter so you only need to add flour, butter, and...

Sourdough pizza dough

Sourdough pizza dough

I keep a sourdough starter in the fridge and feed it every 1 or 2 weeks. I often make pretzels, bread but pizza dough is a good use. I add yeast but the so...

Dutch Baby

Dutch Baby

A Dutch Baby is a puffy omelette baked in the oven in a skillet. The dutch baby is also known as tahitian omelette or german pancake. We enjoy the dutch bab...

Creme Brulee

Creme Brulee

Making creme brulee is definitely a finicky recipe requiring many gadgets. Assuming you have the stuff the recipe is fun and not too difficult. The main gadg...