January
A little film about an amazing January with my friends.
January 2012 from Stephanie P on Vimeo.
Enjoy!
Momofuku Cookies
Heavens to Betsy. Who wants to take a pilgrimage to Milk Bar with me? Friends, they have things called Cereal Milk (like the stuff at the bottom of a bowl of Froot Loops) and Crack Pie. Crack pie. It’s like I secretly became Christina Tosi’s muse and I don’t even know it. Because I want everything they sell. Everything.
Of course, since I don’t live in NYC, I have to make do with homemade versions of their food. So I decided to make cornflake-chocolate-marshmallow cookies a few weeks ago. They did not disappoint. I still have some in a jar in my kitchen, if you want to come over and have one? There are also a few unbaked in the freezer if you’re a fan of raw dough. I can share.
These cookies are really easy. The only hard part is beating the dough for about 10 minutes – apparently, that’s so that we’ll be able to incorporate as much butter as possible into the cookies, without them melting in the oven. Of course, I’m impatient, so a few of mine melted a bit in the oven. I survived.
Let’s make em, shall we?
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Project 365: Week 3
I enjoyed this week of photos a lot more than the 2nd week – more inspiration! I’ve gotten really into “self-portraits”, because I always think having something that can live and breathe in your photos makes them look more alive. And these days, I spend a lot of time doing readings in my room or going out on fairly desolate walks, and I’m sick of photographing squirrels! I swear, this is my last squirrel ever. So usually I’m the only living/breathing subject that I feel comfortable photographing. I’m sure this will change as my friends and I hibernate less.
The highlights from the past week are the cornflake-crunch-chocolate-marshmallow cookies (!), all the yoga I’ve been doing, and my dark orange scarf that I’ve been knitting away at furiously – it’s hopefully going to turn into a beautiful circle-scarf or should I say “snood”! Hope you’ve been having an absolutely wonderful week.
Homemade Pizza
If you’re looking at this picture and thinking to yourself: “My my, but that looks good”, I would like to inform you that you are not wrong. It was good. A little too good.
Why too good, you ask? Well, because, I am now in possession of some dangerous information: I now know how to make pizza dough. I have the easiest-ever recipe bookmarked, I own bread flour, I have a few packages of instant yeast lying around – and honey, you better come save me from myself. If you only knew how much I love pizza…
Conveniently, this is a “bread-like” recipe, which means I’m a quarter done my bread-baking resolution! But I have a feeling that thanks to lots of inspiration and this initial success, I’ll be baking more than 4 breads this year.
Wanna know how to make it yourself? That’s a rhetorical question, obviously.
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