In my kitchen...

traditional lambie cake, it was awesome :: my first homemade french bread :: 

hoecakes :: Victoria sponge :: sandwich bread

I know it looks like we are carb-a-holic, wheat-binging, fat-so people but we aren't. I can completely justify all of this.

For starters, we had a wonderful weekend yardsale-ing. I added four new vintage Fire King milk glass mixing bowls, a boat-load of Christmas ornaments, a baguette pan, a lambie cake pan, and who knows what else. So... I just had to make the lamb cake. You can't own a lamb cake pan and not make it, come now. Here are links for the cake recipe and the frosting. FYI, the frosting recipe makes just enough for this cake... no real extra for eating off the spoon, so I don't recommend sneaking tastes. Ask me how I know that.

Now, the lambie cake recipe I linked to actually makes two cakes, but if you just put your leftover batter in a loaf pan, you have a perfect base for a Victoria sponge. Slice it down the middle, fill it with raspberry jam, sprinkle the top with powdered sugar and head to your tea party to watch Jane Eyre. We loved the cake, the movie, and the reunion of friends.

The french bread happened much like the lamb cake happened. I haven't managed to find a place to put the pan yet, so I filled it with dough and baked it. Makes sense to me.

Last but not least, I am really into cornmeal lately. Maybe its the chill in the air. Maybe its the yellowing of the powdery, dry leaves. Maybe its the 10lbs of apples I have on my counter. Just take your favorite recipe for cornbread, add an extra egg (and extra milk if you need to) to get it the consistency of pancake batter and fry those puppies up just like {American} flapjacks. Yum.

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This week in my kitchen

bone broth :: homemade pizza :: cooling cake :: dressed up cake :: parmesan meatballs :: gooseberries + blueberries + blackberries (all of which we grew here at home) = "home berry" jam :: ultimate nachos

I have decided to keep a log this summer of all the things that I manage to put up and store for the winter (top left sidebar). I have never made my own broth before but this past weekend, we cleaned the freezer and made an inventory of everything we had in there. There was no sense in having old pieces and parts that were waiting to be made into broth when I could just have the broth, so I took care of that this week.

I also had our friends' girls for a day and I told them we could bake something if they wanted. Their request? Chocolate + chocolate + berries. Despite the cake being beautiful, I was NOT happy with how either part turned out. The procedure was peculiar for both of them, and I ended up with sub-optimal results, despite having had great results with the cake recipe. Long story short, I will tweak and when it suits me, I will share the recipes.

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Good Eats

the view from here :: breakfast for dinner :: homemade liquid hand soap, peppermint :: pound cake

I'm not one to try a new poundcake recipe. My late grandmother-in-law's recipe for a giant pound cake is perfect in every way, and named accordingly: Julian cake. On the other hand, my mother-in-law never met a poundcake recipe that didn't pique her interest and prior to being diagnosed with Celiac's, she had a three ring binder of magazine clippings that was, I am confident, 25% pound cake recipes. 

I wanted cake, needed a dessert to share with friends and was limited to a random assortment of ingredients I had on hand. To my Pinterest boards I went and I discovered this recipe, modified here from its original artificially-smiley-teeth-baring version. It was so wonderful. It is not dense like a pound cake you're familiar with, very fluffy, but still very.... poundy? Is that a word?

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