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Recipe Challenge

Tiramisu

Daring Bakers
February 2010

We (Aparna and Deeba) are setting the Daring Bakers a challenge this month to make their own Tiramisu, from scratch.

MASCARPONE + SAVOIARDI BISCUITS + ZABAGLIONE = TIRAMISU!

This divine Italian dessert translates to mean ‘pick me up’, supposedly referring to the ‘kick’ provided by the strong coffee, sugar and alcohol in it!
On the other hand, a slight mistake in spelling it as "Tiramuso" could end up meaning that you were "pulling a sulky face"! Classic tiramisu is made of alternate layers of espresso soaked ladyfinger biscuits and a cream made from mascarpone cheese and zabaglione (an egg custard).

To download the recipe in .pdf format, click HERE!

Food Talk

The Kitchen Laboratory: The Art of Making Carbon Dioxide

Written by Natalie of Gluten A Go Go.

Making beautiful and flavorful food is the goal of every baker and cook. For baked goods that involves creating carbon dioxide, which is odorless and also colorless. In your kitchen you’ll find carbon dioxide in carbonated beverages, candy, beer or wine and in your breads or cookies. Carbon dioxide is what makes the pockets that give our baked goods their light and airy texture.

To get carbon dioxide into your baked goods you need to use a leavening agent. These agents can be chemical or natural in nature. The common chemical agents are cream of tartar, baking powder and baking soda.

Cookbook Review

Love Soup

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This review was prepared by Nikki Gardner of Art and Lemons.
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Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas serves up 160 vegetarian recipes, the book is a comprehensive soup catalogue designed for every season. Complete with hand drawn illustrations and personal stories, this book celebrates fresh ingredients and pots of soup made from scratch, like Whole-Wheat Walnut Bread scooped into a bowl of Red Lentil and Squash Soup, Green Soup, or Neeps and Tatties Soup, suitable for any occasion.

Anna Thomas wrote the best selling The New Vegetarian Epicure: Menus--with 325 all-new recipes--for family and friends in 1973 as a graduate student in film production at UCLA. The book remains a classic with over a million copies sold and is broadly known for bringing vegetarian cuisine into gourmet eating. She went on to write a companion volume to the original classic, The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two (1978), as well as, the menu-based The New Vegetarian Epicure: Menus--with 325 all-new recipes--for family and friends (1996). Anna Thomas is also a well-known screenwriter and film producer, her recent credits include the screenplay for Frida (2002) and producer for Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner (2008).