I have only been blogging about baking for two months or so....but a few things have come to my attention related to baking. I have trouble doing these things:
#1: Follow the recipe precisely. * I am not a very precise person, so making small changes, or omitting a minor ingredient doesn't bother me. However, it can create problems!
#2: Follow the techniques precisely. *I am not a Cordon Bleu trained baker. I was "trained" at my mother's knee in the kitchen in our Concord, CA home. In high school I spent a lot of time trying out recipes of all kinds...especially baking recipes.
#3: Get clutter off the counter before taking pictures of the ingredients!
I don't work in a professional kitchen. Rather, our kitchen is used by many
family members. Often, there are dirty dishes in the sink, and stuff left out on
the counter. Such is the life of a home-based baking blogger.
#4: Be fully disclosing about any shortcuts I take from what the recipe calls
for. Recently my younger brother, (who is a renowned chef and baker in
Little River, CA), questioned my following of a recipe...asking if I had used pie
weights in the pie crust. (I don't even own pie weights!)
#5:Try not to check the blog every day! It is hard to not check the stats every
day. I don't think they are accurate at all, but it is fun to check them.
#1: Follow the recipe precisely. * I am not a very precise person, so making small changes, or omitting a minor ingredient doesn't bother me. However, it can create problems!
#2: Follow the techniques precisely. *I am not a Cordon Bleu trained baker. I was "trained" at my mother's knee in the kitchen in our Concord, CA home. In high school I spent a lot of time trying out recipes of all kinds...especially baking recipes.
#3: Get clutter off the counter before taking pictures of the ingredients!
I don't work in a professional kitchen. Rather, our kitchen is used by many
family members. Often, there are dirty dishes in the sink, and stuff left out on
the counter. Such is the life of a home-based baking blogger.
#4: Be fully disclosing about any shortcuts I take from what the recipe calls
for. Recently my younger brother, (who is a renowned chef and baker in
Little River, CA), questioned my following of a recipe...asking if I had used pie
weights in the pie crust. (I don't even own pie weights!)
#5:Try not to check the blog every day! It is hard to not check the stats every
day. I don't think they are accurate at all, but it is fun to check them.
Mom, I love this blog. Your time is well spent updating it for all of us to read! Keep up the posts, and the amazing pictures, do you take them yourself?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your creations with the world... now everyone knows what they are missing out on at Club Red! :)
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