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Mostly, I go local.
About Me
- Robin Aronson
- I write. I live in New York City. I have a husband and children. I worry, but I have fun worrying.
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2009
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February
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- Bad News for Messy Moms
- Books I Won't Read
- The Budget. What do I know?
- How Great Is This Headline?
- The Achilles Heel (Top Chef Spoiler Alert)
- Then There's Mark Halperin
- Other People Respond
- The It's Not the State of the Union Speech
- On the Express
- Full Disclosure
- Drain-O
- The Problem with Gwyneth
- The Cake Bible
- The Violent Right
- J.Warner is Right
- What I Made Today
- Oh No You Don't Ken Starr
- Gimme Shelter
- Top Chef-Not Spoiler-3
- The Bloggable Hayek
- The Lure of Risk
- President's Day
- Zycam
- Bi-Partisanship-Part 2
- What Would Make Bi-Partisanship Work
- Domino
- Who Asks What?
- Top Chef Not Spoiler-2
- Waltz With Bashir
- I Really Want to Blog
- Agreed
- Short Reading
- The Cake
- The Quote
- Keith Olbermann on Dick Cheney
- Good News In February
- Message to Anyone Who Will Listen
- The Knitting Needles Are Up and Running
- The Death of Domino
- Newsflash
- Put the Knitting Needles Down
- The Big Fix
- It's the Transparency....
- The $140,000 Tax Question
- The Ethics of the Octuplets
- What Recovery Means to Me
- Skating on Sunday
- Tennis I love
- The Web, Self-Publishing, Self-Promotion, and Writing
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2 comments:
This is a very precise and technical cookbook, and I recommend reading each recipe through several times before even measuring out the ingredients (definitely read the "Understanding" section for each recipe to understand the scientific principles). I have also found that the cakes come out better when I: a) use the weight measurements instead of the volume measurements, especially for egg whites, b)use high-butterfat butter like Straus or Plugra, and c) make sure my ancient oven is calibrated. Unlike the Silver Palate cookies you blogged about earlier, these recipes must be followed *exactly* and do not handle substitutions. At. All.
That said, the classic genoise and the chocolate oblivion torte will wow dinner guests every time.
Well, Thank You Roni for the Fair Warning!! I was going to plunge into the Domingo cake (and review its adaptation in the Times) and the Butter cake -- but Thanks for the warning -- I think I might need a kitchen scale....
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