http://experimentalseries106.com The kitchen disasters (and successes) of my experiments with exotic new recipes while working without short term memory. Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:32:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently came accross the following blog, which is written by another woman experiencing the disasterous combination of household responsibilities and ADD, the content of which might have been my life, had I married and/or had children: Confessions Of An ADD Housewife http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=64 One of the few homemade dishes I make that my family members do not complain about is the honey apple pie with double-rich crust ...usually reserved for holidays and special occasions, though they try to find more excuses for me to make it...though the scratch-made crust, containing nearly 2 sticks ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=61 I had read about raisin bran muffins with cream cheese as being a suggestion for a light (Lenten) luncheon in an old (early 1960s) Home Ec textbook that I had gotten at my local Salvation Army thrift shop.  Surprisingly, the textbook did not provide a recipe, so, wanting to try ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=60 Before the heat wave hit, I made not one but two coffeecakes in one day in the kitchen: blueberry coffee cake and cocoanut coffee cake.  The dough for the two of 'em is similar in formulation and ingredients (the blueberry coffee cake calls for butter milk while the cocoanut coffee ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=57 Just because I've been away from the computer for a while doesn't mean I haven't been cooking...on the contrary, I've been too busy cooking to be typing.  And when I have had time to type I've been too mentally and or physically tired to do so.  For mother's day, I made ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=56 A couple of weeks ago, I was sufficiently motivated to try making Marshmallow Mermaid Pie.  As Recipe4Living describes it, "From the movie Waitress, this marshmallow pie was one of Jenna's creations.".  It sounded simple enough, and I used a pre-made store-bought graham cracker crust like the one who wrote in ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=52 This Easter, though having intended not to have to make a dessert (I in fact bought a dessert from a local bakery, namely St. Joseph's Pastries, a seasonal delight here in NYC) but with about a cup of strawberries going soft (the sad truth is that if you buy a ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=55 Since I had some powdered matcha (Japanese green tea) at home, I decided to try making these babies, though the original poster of the recipe had decided that they were better with ground powdered oolong tea as one of the ingredients (I'm going to have to try that as a ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=54 ...and again, and again... it really went over very well with my family, who usually take a dim view of some of the "fancy stuff". I had halved the recipe when I made it a couple of days ago (using only one baguette and half the proportions of the ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=53 Last month (February) I made a couple of new recipes from the then-current Woman's Day magazine. The Cocoa Oatmeal jumbles (basically oatmeal raisin cookies with a healthy dose of cocoa powder mixed in...I must say it tastes better than it sounds) I sent to my 7-year old twin cousins ... http://experimentalseries106.com/?p=51