Klopp's Kitchen Hot out of the Oven
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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 [...]
Hazelnut Chocolate Meringue Cake
For Thanksgiving I made a Hazelnut Chocolate Meringue cake. It turned out pretty good. It was basically a flourless chocolate cake base with a meringue topping that had hazelnuts and chocolate mixed in. No Callebaut this time as I was at my parents, so I had to settle for Lindt. However I did get to [...]
Pflaumenkuchen – German Plum Cake Recipe
After hazelnut picking at Garside’s Fruit Farm I had a bag of Italian plums that needed to be used. The reason the owner gave me the plums was because they were extremely ripe, and had to be used immediately. I knew I wanted to make a German plum cake with them when I got them, [...]
Baked Flourless Chocolate Cake
After my mild disappointment with the Baked Brownie, I decided to give the Baked cookbook a second chance by trying their flourless chocolate cake recipe. Ever since I picked up a few slabs of Callebaut chocolate Oliver had been harassing me to give a flourless cake a try, so this gave me the perfect opportunity. [...]
The Baked Brownie
Over the summer I bought the much talked about Baked cookbook. Based on the ratings the book received and the recommendations from other blogs, I decided to give it a shot. The most well known recipe in the book was for their Baked brownies, which have been regarded as one of the very best brownie [...]
Huckleberry Waffles
An activity I love to do in the Kootenays during the summer is to forage for huckleberries. This past week while visiting my parents I had the opportunity to go out to our favorite spot in the Monashee Mountains and pick. The berries are abundant this year and within an hour I already had half [...]
Erdbeertorte (Mom’s vs Mine)
One of the things that I always love about visiting my parents in the summer is getting to eat my mother’s fresh fruit flans. When I went back to my parents place recently, strawberries were just starting to get ripe so my mom put together her patented German Erdeertorte for us. The basic recipe for [...]
Mini Pielettes with my Nephew
Every summer my nephew Mateo comes out for about a month to visit my parents and the rest of the family out west. I used his arrival as an excuse to make it out to my parents place in the Kootenays for a visit. Simply put, the Kootenays are absolutely glorious in the summer. Loads [...]
Rhubarb Strawberry Pie
Still on my rhubarb kick, with a few stalks left in my fridge I decided to make a rhubarb pie on Monday. So off to my book of 300 Pie’s I go to find a good recipe. I found what looked like a recipe that would taste great and got to preparing. Since I wanted [...]
Rhubarb Berry Crumble
I love this time of year. Not only is it getting warming outside, the weather getting nicer and the days longer, but also some of my favorite fruits and berries are getting ripe. Specifically rhubarb. I remember when I was a kid; my brother and me would go to the garden, pick out big stalks [...]
Chocolate Walnut Tart from Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Last Thanksgiving I helped out my parents by gathering all the walnuts from their walnut tree. I did a pretty extensive job of it, and was able to collect a giant basket full of nuts. I made the deal with them that I would be able to keep half the nuts I collected, as I [...]
More Footless Macarons
Having made another Tiramisu for my parents a few weeks ago, I had another glut of egg whites. This presented the perfect opportunity for me to try my hand at making macarons for the third time. I wanted to switch things up this time and do a chocolate shell. I found a chocolate macaron recipe [...]
Carrot Cake Cupcakes with Mascarpone Icing
Back in November I made Italian tiramisu. However when I did I bought way too much mascarpone cheese. In my fridge since then I have had a big tub of Mascarpone, justing sitting there. For anyone who has ever bought mascarpone, you will know it is not cheap. On Friday I decided to use it [...]
Black Forest Cake
For Christmas I wanted to make a dessert. A quick look around my mom’s pantry and I found a couple jars of sour cherries; perfect for a black forest cake. I went off and found a decent recipe at allrecipes.com and wet about putting the cake together. I was actually amazed at how simple it [...]
Banana Chocolate Chip Walnut Muffins
Banana bread is probably one of the first things I baked when I moved out on my own. It is extremely easy to make, a great use of old over ripe bananas, and is a delicious snack to have around. I have made banana bread so many times now I really don’t need a recipe, [...]