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Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

I am a horrible cook and have recently started baking so I can fend for myself. I made my first successful yeast rolls. Does anyone have any suggestions for easy and tasty things I can bake? Beginner stuff obviously. :3

Re: Baking!

[greenvelvetcake]

BROWNIES, BROWNIES FOREVER

Or if you're looking for savory, baking your own pizza is pretty rewarding. Start with a basic crust and then you can get creative, like with stuffed crusts, or adapting it into calzones and stromboli.

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

ooh. I should try pizza! I have never made homemade brownies just ones from the box. :X

Re: Baking!

[othellia]

Ooh, I second the pizza baking. I have to bake my own pizzas since anything tomato-based makes me nauseous (pesto sauce forever), and boy are they delicious.

I'm really bad at flatting crust out though. It's like there's a perfect flour ratio that I can't quite grasp.

Re: Baking!

[republicanism]

i dont know if you are into fish but salmon is really easy.
if you, like me, are among the incompetent, this video is great. all step-by-step:

http://allrecipes.com/video/159/how-to-cook-salmon/detail.aspx?prop24=RR_RelatedVideo

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

I don't but several of my family members eat fish. :F

Re: Baking!

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Things like potato bake are great, though the bought stuff isn't very healthy. Oh, and we bake eggplant lasagna, with bottled pasta sauce & vegies.

Apparently you can also make baingan ka bharta or in the oven if you don't have a gas cooktop. I'm told it doesn't taste as good, though. And roast vegies (with or without roast chicken/fish) are delicious. We have butternut pumpkin, corn, tomato stuffed with fetta, and capsicum. If you can get those tiny sweet gourmet capsicums anywhere without breaking the bank, go for it.

Sorry, those are probably more basic than you were looking for.

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

I have never heard of any of those. Unless a potato bake is just a baked potato. But I will google them now!

Re: Baking!

[(Anonymous)]

http://oneknifekitchen.tumblr.com/
The theme is easy, basic cooking!

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

A whole website! Many thanks!

Re: Baking!

[eaten_by_bears]

If you search for the Mrs. Fields banana bread recipe, it's pretty much the food of the gods. I make it without chocolate chips or nuts and eat it warm with butter. And it uses up all your nasty old bananas. I keep a stash of them in the freezer for the purpose.

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

I love banana bread. Will definitely make some with chocolate chips.

Re: Baking!

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm. Okay, if you really are a beginner, here are just a few things I recommend learning how to do:

* shortcrust pastry - good for pies (sweet and savoury), pasties and quiches
http://www.helpwithcooking.com/pastry-guide/shortcrust-pastry.html - When you rub the butter into the flour use the tips of your fingers because they're cooler and the warmer the butter gets the harder the pastry is to manipulate.
The Be-Ro recipe book is basically how I learned to bake and a lot of the (easy) recipes are reproduced on this website under the Recipe Inspiration link at the top. Baking Basics on the left of the page has techniques.
http://www.be-ro.co.uk/recipe/showrec.asp?rec=37 - This is a really simple and delicious quiche recipe. Add three or four sliced mushrooms with the bacon!

* cheese sauce - used in macaroni cheese, lasagne, so many pasta bakes or gratins, eggy bread sandwiches (if you make it really thick it's divine), or just as an accompaniment to meat and veg. Understanding a bechamel sauce (cheese sauce before you add the cheese!) makes a lot of soups and stews really simple as well.
http://teriskitchen.com/sauces/cheese-a.html

* bolognese sauce - you'll find a lot of recipes of varying complexity online, but once you find one you like you're sorted. Spaghetti bolognese, stuffed peppers, stuffed potatoes, lasagne, cottage pie (without the tomatoes) are usually all good with the same recipe and are generally pretty easy to do once you know how.

If this is too basic I apologise! If I've mentioned anything you want expanding on, please say so because I love talking about cooking and I do tend to stick to the basics! That said, I'm more about stove-top cooking than baking.

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

This isn't too basic, believe me. I made my first bread yesterday and panicked because the dough was sticking to me. Thank you for the recipes!

Re: Baking!

[(Anonymous)]

Whoops, I gave you the direct link to the Be-Ro quiche recipe without realising it would get rid of all the other links!

http://www.be-ro.co.uk/f_insp.htm

BTW, it doesn't actually matter what kind of plain or self-raising flour you use ;)

Re: Baking! (Baker here)

[(Anonymous)]

Perfect the chocolate chip cookie. Seriously, it's one of the easiest recipes there is in terms of ingredients and one of the hardest to do very well. It allows you to understand the effects of water, eggs, different oil types, sugar to flour ratios, leavening... Play with recipes. Get to know what happens to a cookie that calls for baking powder as opposed to one that calls for baking soda, as opposed to one that does not call for leaveners at all.

It also has the advantage of being one of the most beloved treats, so you can always share them and people will appreciate even a less-than-perfect batch.

After you have that under your belt, you can try moving on to muffins and then onto cakes that use the creaming method. Pie dough and biscuits are among the most difficult of skillsets to master, followed by the meringue and egg white cakes (chiffon, angel food). Finally, the souffle, the pavlova, the macaron, and home made puff pastry are the apex of the pastry chef.

Yeast breads and cakes are a whole other animal, and should be approached as an entirely different skillset when it comes to baking. The simple white loaf, the egg breads, pizza doughs, and baguettes are all predicated on the same general concept, but the execution is what sets them apart.

Re: Baking!

[straydog733]

Muffins! Specifically, these mocha chocolate chip banana muffins:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/mocha-chocolate-chip-banana-muffins/

The instructions are basically: put together wet stuff, put together dry stuff, put the stuffs together, put in muffin tins, Profit! And they are really damn tasty.

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

Those sound like the most delicious muffins ever. O.O

Re: Baking!

[sootyowl]

Banana Bread is really easy to make. I made this one recently and it was really simple: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=411553.0

Pancakes are also pretty simple once you get the hang of flipping them over in a pan. These are good: http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=404094.0 (And reg milk can be used instead of soy)

This website for cooking might also be useful as there are drawn instructions that go along for each dish: http://theveganstoner.blogspot.ca/

I found a good generally easy cooking/baking website for people who need to stretch a dollar: http://budgetbytes.blogspot.ca/

Re: Baking!

[kaijinscendre]

I am definitely going to make banana bread.

Re: Baking!

[ginainthekingsroad]

I just made this the other day for my mom's birthday. I think I remembered everything, I'll check and edit this if I fucked up royally.

Mom-Mom's Pumpkin Cake (my maternal grandmother, who actually got this recipe from their neighbor who came from West Virginia)

Sift in small bowl:
2 cups flour
1/2 tsp allspice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp baking soda
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In a large bowl, cream together:
1 stick unsalted butter (softened)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
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Mix in:
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup pumpkin

Then add the dry ingredients from the small bowl. Mix it up just til moistened. Pour into your preferred pan (ungreased) and bake. Bake 2 8" round cake pans or 1 13x9" pan bake for 30 minutes, a loaf pan bakes around 40-45 minutes. There is a family recipe for a buttermilk icing with this, but it's good on its own with some whipped cream- for dessert or for breakfast. I can find the icing recipe if you want it, though.

Re: Baking!

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, this is kind of an awful thing for me to suggest if it turns out you either can't eat peanuts without exploding from allergies or don't like them, but it is seriously the best peanut butter cookie recipe ever. It feels like cheating. If you like Reeses anything, though, feel free to blame me for any resultant weight gain.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2 cups peanut butter (the stuff that's just peanuts and salt, Trader Joe's carries one, so do health food shops). Basically, 1 16 oz. jar. I use smooth, but you could probably use the crunchy stuff if you like.
2 cups brown sugar.
2 eggs.
1 tbs. vanilla.
As many chocolate chips as you can cram in. I've managed 2 cups, but 1 cup is fine, or you can leave them out.

Mix everything together in a bowl. It will be easier if you just use your clean hands. Make the resultant goop into 16 balls. Put them on cookie sheets and flatten each ball with a fork or your hands. Put them in the oven for 8 minutes or so. They will be squishy and not look done when they come out. Let them cool off a bit so they can firm up. These are good with milk, if you drink milk.

For something a little more advanced--I think I posted this here once before, but:

A cinnabon clone recipe. The original calls for margarine, which I think is the devil, so I use butter. Sorry about the obnoxious metric measurements if that's what you're used to.

rolls:
1 1/4 oz./7.08 g package dry yeast
1 cup/ 236.59 ml warm milk
1/2 cup/118.29 ml granulated sugar
1/3 cup/ 78.07 ml butter
1 teaspoon/4.92 ml salt
2 eggs
4 cups/946.36 ml flour
filling:
1 cup/236.59 ml packed brown sugar
2 1/2 tablespoons/36.97 ml cinnamon
1/3 cup/78.07 ml butter, softened
icing:
8 tablespoons/118.32 ml butter
1 1/2 cups/ 354.88 ml powdered sugar
1/4 cup/ 59.14 ml cream cheese
1/2 teaspoon/2.46 ml vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon/0.59 ml salt


1. Dissolve yeast in the warm milk in a large bowl.
2. Add sugar, butter, salt, eggs, and flour, mix well.
3. Knead the dough until it comes together into a ball.
4. Put in a greased bowl and let rise in a warm place about 1 hour or until dough has doubled in size.
5. Roll the dough out on a floured surface until it is about 21 inches long by 16 inches wide and about 1/4 inch thick.
6. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
7. For filling, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon. Spread softened butter over the surface of the dough and sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the surface.
8. Working from a long edge, roll the dough into a cylinder.
9. Cut the cylinder into 1 3/4 inch slices and lay on their sides in a lightly greased baking pan. Let rise about 30 minutes.
10. Bake for 10 minutes or until light golden brown.
11. For icing, combine icing ingredients and beat with an electric mixer until fluffy. Spread warm rolls with icing and prepare to gain a few pounds/kilos.

Re: Baking!

[tabaqui]

Honestly? Try a quiche. They're easy and very tasty, just take a little time to prep. Then you bake and you have breakfast - or lunch - or -dinner - for days, heat and eat.

Sorry for the edit, but.... Lasagne is easy and of course, delicious. I tend to use extra cheese. All the time. Heh. You said 'baking' and i guess you mean breads/muffins/etc, but if you're actually wanting food to eat for dinner and such, things you can bake in the oven are *so* easy and only use one pan. Shepherd's Pie is another oven-bake thing that's tasty and easy.

Try http://allrecipes.com/, as they have reviews from people who made the food item and said what worked, what didn't, what they changed. I've also used http://cooking.livejournal.com/. Great place for suggestions, recipes, and questions answered.

Don't be afraid to experiment, and have fun!

Re: Baking!

[(Anonymous)]

This is one of my favorite food blogs: http://www.browneyedbaker.com/. She has all kinds of recipes - indexed by category and ingredient. There are also a lot of other awesome food blogs out there. Quick breads (yeast-free), scones, or biscuits can be pretty simple to make, if you're looking to branch out, but not stray too far from your comfort zone.

Re: Baking!

[ryttu3k]

These chocolate chip cookies are amazing oh my god. Uh, if you're not vegan, you can use dairy milk... I'd recommend using the oil instead of butter, though, that's part of the appeal. I also add more chips than the recipe calls for... and melt more and drizzle that on top... and kind of want to try a variation with mint essence in the batter...