Thursday, January 5, 2012

Winter in the kitchen: Resources

{pate a choux cream puff shells, cooling}
 While searching online a couple of months ago for a good spinach artichoke dip recipe, I came across Annie's Eats, a cooking and baking blog that has quickly become one of my favorite sources for delicious, from-scratch recipes.  I am a sucker for crisp, appealing photography of the steps of a recipe, but more importantly, the final results of a recipe.  I shy away from cookbooks with no photos, particularly when the recipes are unfamiliar or complex, because I enjoy both the inspiration that a photo can provide (especially when I'm cooking or baking for guests) and the hints it offers when I am feeling a little stumped during preparation.  Lucky for me, Annie's Eats is chock full of bright, colorful and scrumptious photos of all of the recipes!  Tonight I baked up a batch of cream puffs for the first time, using a combination of this recipe and this one.  They're for a co-worker's birthday tomorrow, so I'm really hoping they're a success!  But really, who doesn't like cream puffs?  Wish me luck...

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