Klopp's Kitchen Hot out of the Oven
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
I love hummus. It is one of my new favourite snacks to make and is great for parties or get togethers. I have always been shocked at how expensive it is to buy hummus in grocery stores. Over $5 for a small little container is highway robbery considering how cheap the ingredients are. However up [...]
Sourdough Bread
After getting relatively decent at Jim Lahey’s no knead style bread, I decided to move onto a something a little more challenging; making sourdough bread. The beauty of sourdough bread is that you get to make your own yeast, or sourdough starter. A sourdough starter is essentially just flour and water that begins to ferment [...]
Longchamps’ Cheesecake
My friend Oliver requested that I try my hand at making a cheesecake. I had only ever attempted a cheesecake once a few years back when the grocery store had a huge sale on cream cheese. My attempt back them was a huge failure, and I think I was turned off since them from making [...]
Home Made Pizza
Initially inspired by my friend Rob, who often makes his own pizza, and with the great success I was having with Jim Lahey’s bread recipes I went to work on making my own home made pizza. The recipe is easy to follow, and the dough is ready in 2-3 hours with minimal work. The crust [...]
Zuger Kirschtorte
My friend Oliver recently celebrated his 31st birthday. For his birthday I wanted to bake him something special, that was both traditional, elegant, and would hopefully taste really good. I remembered seeing a recipe in Maida Heatter’s New Book of Great Desserts a recipe for a cake that was exactly what I was looking for, [...]
No Knead Bread
I recently got the bread cookbook called My Bread from New York baker Jim Lahey. I had wanted to get into bread baking, and found this book had a lot of really great reviews. Since getting the book I have been making at least 1-2 loafs a week. The basic premise of Jim’s bread is [...]
Baked German Chocolate Cake
The coffee shop next to my apartment serves up a really nice German Chocolate Cake. I often get a slice when I am in the mood for a cappuccino and something sweet. When I saw that the Baked cookbook had a recipe for a German Chocolate Cake I figured I would attempt to make one. [...]
Macarons with Feet!
I finally did it. I was able to make Macarons with feet! In the past I have had some really terrible attempts. Misshaped, too big, no feet. It was a little frustrating to not be able to get them right. When I was finally able to make them correctly I had to have a great [...]
What to do with left over pie dough?
Make mini apple almond tarts and apple crumble ramekins of course. Here are some photos of a few things I baked a few weeks ago.
Maple Syrup Pie (Tarte au Sirop d’érable)
During my recent visit to Montreal I had really wanted to try a Tarte au Sucre. I had made one a tarte au sucre last year, and wanted to see how it compared to a traditional slice. While in the Jean-Talon market I went to one of the stalls that sold pies and asked if [...]