Food I Eat

A winner with no modifications ! Came out to about 60 cookies, however, and I let everything sit in the fridge for closer to 5 hours because I had an appointment to get to. Has a remarkable, subtle almond flavour that's really lovely. A little finicky to form, but not too bad. I used a pizza cutter to get equal-sized strips to work with, which helped a lot. 10/10 would make again!

It's not Christmas without tarte au sucre! I grabbed this recipe from Genius Kitchen , and modified it just slightly, but I'm so afraid to lose it that I wanted to post it here. I didn't do the butter cubes, since other people said that it made the top of the pie greasy. Instead, I just mixed the melted butter in with the wet ingredients, and it was fine.  I also baked it for closer to 60 minutes, because my oven thought 350F actually meant 325F, and halfway through I had to up it to 375F to get it to actually be 350F and ANYWAY just keep an eye on it.

If I'm Sisyphus, then beef stew is my boulder. I keep trying and trying to get it right, and failing every time. But tonight it finally turned out! FINALLY! And now I need to write it down before I forget the things I did. I grabbed the stew recipe from "A Pinch of Yum", but modified it. Oh, but definitely don't get "stewing beef" from the meat section of the grocery store. It's just not right.  Stew: 2 tsp canola oil 2lbs beef, chuck roast, chopped into roughly 1 inch pieces 2 small onions 2 stalks of celery, chopped into thick pieces 6 carrots, chopped into thick pieces 3/4 cup passata 1/4 cup water 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp white sugar Dumplings: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 3 tbsp unsalted butter 3/4 cup milk Instructions: Set Instant Pot to Saute. Add oil. Once oil is hot, add beef in batches (I did three) and remove each batch to a plate when browned.  Add the remai...