Molten Chocolate Cake

Being a full-time student with three jobs (including writing for The Feisty Foodie) doesn’t leave me with much time or energy to bake.   I know many of you can sympathize with this.  Unfortunately, I can’t give each activity the justice it deserves without compromising on something else.  It took me a long time to decide to step down as the Blind Baker. But fear not!  I leave you with one last baking adventure. I’ve always wanted to make a molten chocolate cake and over a recent long weekend, I decided to give it a shot.  But I didn’t know where [...]

How To: Measure Brown Sugar

Did you know there’s a right way to measure brown sugar?  Yes, yes there is.   But first, what is brown sugar? The short answer: granulated sugar mixed with a small amount of molasses.  As they get blended together, the sugar becomes aerated and kind of fluffy. Unfortunately, this also means there’s not as much brown sugar in a measuring cup as you think; it needs to be packed tightly into the cup because you’re measuring by volume, not weight.   Unless the recipe you’re using calls for measuring out your ingredients by weight, which is actually much more accurate.  But that’s [...]

Quick Blueberry Turnovers

After making Easy Cheesy Cheese Sticks for the BFF, I still had a sheet of puff pastry left and I knew he wasn’t going to use it without seeing me use it for something different.  I also wanted to keep it sort of healthy or as healthy as one can get with buttery puff pastry. In his freezer, I found some frozen blueberries and thought, “Hmm, BFF likes blueberries, and those are full of antioxidants and other healthy crap.  I think I’ll make blueberry turnovers!” With BFF watching, I dumped half a bag of frozen blueberries in a saucepan with [...]

Easy Cheesy Cheese Sticks

Right after the new year, I left NY to visit some friends in California.  Those mountains the San Francisco locals call hills were a blessing in disguise because my butt would be a LOT bigger if I hadn’t had to climb so many of them after eating my way through the city.   You do not want to know how many crème brulées I can consume in a week. After my week of gluttony, I moved on to Southern California.  To thank my best friend for letting me stay with him in his apartment, I cooked a few meals as well [...]

The Monkey Bread Experiment

A couple of weeks ago, I told you about my unsuccessful gorilla bread experiment and vowed to try again.  And I did, except this time I made its cousin monkey bread with the hope that I’d have greater success.  I’m a little sad about not including a cream cheese filling, which, as you’ll recall (because you’re a faithful Feisty Foodie fan) is the distinguishing characteristic of gorilla bread.  But I thought I should go back to the basics and try plain old monkey bread before getting all “fancy”. I still had issues getting the tube to open in a timely [...]

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