Kimchi Puppies

I love making recipes from Maangchi's website. There are a ton of meat-laden recipes, but she puts effort in to explain how to make vegetarian options for many of the dishes, and her videos are perfect to watch while on the stationary bike at the gym.

What To Do?

If you're stopping by the DC Grey Market tomorrow intent on trying out some of my banana gnocchi, check out my list of other items over on The Experimental Oven. I want to keep my kitchen adventures separate from my commercial endeavours.

In that post, I list all the items I'm bringing in addition to the ingredients (for those with food allergies, specific dietary restrictions, or what-have-you) and preparation suggestions.

Totally looking forward to tomorrow/I'm incredibly nervous for my first semi-commercial market venture!

Grey Market Update

I'm feeling positive about Saturday. I think it'll be a wonderful experience engaging people and selling my own home-made products.

The Experimental Oven

I wrote a long post on The Indoor Garden(er) introducing this blog and my food-business efforts, which, although associated with this blog as a page, has not been announced yet, really.

So, I won't copy the information from the other post here, except to say that I'm selling food on 28 January at the DC Grey Market and that I hope to eventually turn this into something legit and regular. Once I get to that stage, of course, The Experimental Oven will have its own website. I will attempt not to post too many of the recipes I'm going to use to create the goodies for the business, for the moment, at least. There are plenty more up my sleeve, never fear!

Branding Your Kitchen

I recently subscribed to Tasting Table, an e-mail newsletter type thing about food and the food industry. Yesterday, the e-mail was about the Next Big Small Brand contest. Basically, small food producers compete to win support to help them become larger brands. After working with Whisked! all these months, my brain is afloat with my own side business making and selling food products--jams, biscotti, and my specialty scones and granola. I'm not at the "make your brand bigger" stage yet, however--I don't even have a brand yet!

"Cookery Is Not Chemistry"?

I saw this as I sat down with David for a cooking class a few minutes ago. Cooking, definitely--baking even more so!

Avoiding Baking Disasters

I'm not great at avoiding baking disasters--although I'm familiar enough with the oven I use to know to reduce the bake time and/or temperature for a recipe, I usually end up burning something anyway.

My beau just shared this Lifehacker Baking 911 infographic with me. It makes me happy that I use most of the preventative measures during my preparation and baking, but there are clearly a few more I need to look at!