Kitchen Thrift: Sour Cream & Carrot Pulp & Cream (Respectively)

sour cream chocolate muffins
http://wlteef.blogspot.com/2009/07/spiced-chocolate-muffins.html
carrot pulp bread muffins
http://askville.amazon.com/leftover-carrot-pulp-juicer/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=8940237
roll cake

Cooking Flurry: Hummus

Classic Hummus
Sweet Potato Hummus
Joy's Almond Butter Hummus
Nigella's Peanut Butter Hummus

Lesson: Kneading

Stretch

Overproof

third times a charm: japanese cream bread

1st Try: Fail

2nd Try: fail

3rd Try: less fail

baking flurry: chocolate chip cake, matcha souffle roll cake, mini-cheesecakes, starter

The wife and children of a family friend have been in town for a visit, and are returning to Shanghai tomorrow. After cooking up a mad frenzy to make them a healthy Asian brunch in waves, I whipped up these goodies.

1. Chocolate Chip Cake from "Tate's Bake Shop" by Kathleen King
http://measuringspoons.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/tates-bake-shop-giveaway-winner-chocolate-chip-cake/

2. Matcha Souffle Roll Cake from My Buttery Fingers from "Wa Sweet Recipe" by Fukuda Junko
http://mybutteryfingers.blogspot.com/2011/06/matcha-souffle-roll-cake.html

3. Mini-Cheesecakes from "How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking" by Nigella Lawson
http://mouthfulsofheaven.blogspot.com/2009/05/mini-cheesecakes.html

4. Starter for Japanese Cream Bread from Sotong Cooks from "Magic Bread" by Alex Goh
http://sotongcooks.blogspot.com/2010/11/japanese-cream-bread.html

improvised: tiramisu caramel apple cake trifle

http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/09/moms-apple-cake/ http://fatandhappyblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/caramel-apple-trifle.html
tiramisu

banana bread

Banana Bread is sort of the ABCs of baking. It's what every baker teeths on. I love banana bread in all its incarnations, and I've spent years baking dozens of different recipes in search of the elusive "perfect" loaf of banana bread. My vote goes to James Beard's version, which is my go-to recipe. It's simple, basic, moist and chock full of yummy banana-ey goodness. I knew there was a reason he was so famous :).

http://www.jamesbeard.org/index.php?q=recipes/show/banana_bread

I used pecans, which is my gold standard for nuts.