![]() ![]() My mouth is full of humble pie–although I can tell you that the crust is great!Ĭhantilly Meringuée (or Elegant Ice Cream)Ĭheese Straws (made with gluten-free Puff Pastry)Ĭhocolate Chip Meringue Cookies (dairy-free)Ĭhocolate Chip Cookies and Chocolate Chunk Cookies, 2 RecipesĬhocolate Chip Cookies, Shortbread-type (egg-free)Ĭhocolate Sheet Cake (w/Chocolate Pecan Frosting)Ĭinnamon Rolls, with or w/o Cream Cheese FrostingĬoffee Chocolate Almond Crunch Bars (egg-free)Ĭrazy Cake (dairy-free and egg free)–w/instructions for cupcakes, tooĬrullers (donuts) (with a selection of glazes)Ĭupcakes (chocolate), use the Fast, Easy, and Elegant Fudge Cake recipe and bake for 30 mins.Scottsdale neighborhood restaurant Humble Pie Pizzeria has a fresh look, a menu makeover and a new chef-owner, Jorge Gomez. And I want to apologize to my students and to anyone who used my recipe with the incorrect gram measurements and had bad pie crust. ![]() The good thing about all of this is that I’m sure a class of mine will never go as badly as this one did (at least, I hope this is the case). ![]() If you are one of my international readers who uses the gram measurements, please accept my apologies for the the incorrect measurements. The ounce and volume measurements are fine. It’s the least I can do for folks who paid good money for a class that should have been much better than it was.Īlso, that night I went home and combed through the pie crust recipe on this site to make sure it was OK–where I found that I had incorrect gram measurements for the flour and the butter. The next day I called the class coordinator for the teaching space and asked if she would mind if I contacted each student and offered each one of them a private pie crust tutorial. And I felt so badly that the students really didn’t get a chance to see and experience how fun and truly easy gluten-free pie crust can be to make. And it helps the students to see that things are never perfect. I usually welcome small things to go wrong in class–they allow me to point out what went wrong, why, and how to handle them. And I got amazingly high marks on the comment sheets. Several students took non-burned extras home and later wrote to me that their family members loved them. Towards the end, the students and I did manage roll out and bake some nice toaster tarts that tasted good (although I burned the tops of some of them by putting them on a too-high rack in the oven–sigh). These assistants had never seen me teach before and I’m sure they secretly wondered what the heck I was doing in the teaching position. The fridge was too far away from me to use gracefully, and I ended up running back and forth from it like a chicken with my head cut off in a desperate attempt to keep the ingredients cool. The dough didn’t respond well to mixing (it was too hot and humid in the kitchen), the countertop was too warm to roll it on with out it sticking and staying, no matter how much we floured it. Truly, you couldn’t purposefully have designed a worse class. And the mis-measured amount of flour wasn’t that bad, but it was enough to throw the whole thing over the edge into disaster. The space was warm and humid (thanks to the dishwashers and the rainy day). I had failed to plan for so many environmental issues and conditions, it was kind of ridiculous. Well, nothing of this delicate balancing act was present on my class night. I’m surprised that lightning didn’t strike me.Īs you know, making pie crust is a delicate balance of using and mixing cold ingredients for the dough, warming up the resulting dough a tiny bit to be at the correct rolling temperature, then cooling it down a bit before baking, and then placing it into a hot oven where it almost magically becomes flaky and delicious. So many mistakes that I made in one setting. And I measured the student bags according to this incorrect recipe. On top of everything, I incorrectly wrote the recipe I was handing out to the students and it was 1 oz off on my flour (about 2.5 TBL). It had been a busy day, so I had been driving around for a few hours with the ingredients in my car, which meant they were not as cold as they usually are. This was going to be a hands on class, so I had pre-measured bags of dry ingredients for the students and set them at each spot. ![]() As it turned out, the dishwashers were running and venting steam the whole time I was teaching. I didn’t think it through and we randomly chose an end–the end we chose was next to the ovens and next to the industrial strength dishwashers. Since there were going to be about 9 students, we decided to set up at one end of the long counter so we could all talk to and help each other. This was a new teaching space for me and it is beautiful–but it is huge! The lone fridge is at one end and the ovens are 15 ft away at the other end. ![]()
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