Coming up with new recipes or trying other people’s recipes can be a lot of fun. The possibilities are endless and the experience is rewarding even though the failures can be very frustrating. Successful results require a combination of technique, intuition, experience, and creativity. Evaluating the finished product mostly involves the taste buds where aroma, flavour, and texture carry a lot of weight … but we shouldn’t forget visual [...]
Most cakes are supposed to have a flat top - in fact the flatter the better. The few cakes that are rounded are so because they were baked in a molded pan and displayed upside down and technically the top (which is now the bottom) is still flat but fortunately camouflaged. Did that make sense? I know [...]
My first camera was a Kodak bullet aka a ‘brownie’. It was a very basic camera where all you had to do was look through the little viewer and click. Pictures were recorded on film and sent for processing. In those days, we took pictures sparingly since buying and processing a film cost money. We also took [...]
How did cooking associate itself with such a negative expression? Cooking the books means that an individual or organization has intentionally manipulated their financial records in order to either make their business look more successful than it really is or to avoid paying taxes. We’ve all heard the term and unfortunately many of us have suffered [...]