Friday, December 17, 2010

4th Dish of Christmas 2010 - Sea Salt Caramel Brownies

I ran across this recipe while doing my usual lunch-hour blog reading... recipe. Its a blog that I am now checking up on frequently! I even adore the name :)

I thought the recipe would be great to make for Mike's birthday. For a quick recap - I took him to Tillman's Roadhouse (which, by the way, was DELISH and quickly became another thing we love in Bishops Arts District).

As for the brownies - I have no "in process" shots unfortunately since I was trying to not burn the caramel. I definitely over-baked it a bit as the corners were a bit tough (I just trimmed the edges off and ended up with really pretty brownie squares). I am having a really hard time adjusting to our new oven! I think next time I will increase the brownie ratio and decrease the caramel just a bit! I also could let the caramel cook a bit more next time because my inner layer of caramel did melt into the brownie layers as noted by the author.

Overall, a pretty straight-forward recipe! Its one you do need to keep any eye on for the majority of the time so don't multi-task while baking these brownies!


Thursday, December 16, 2010

Water for Elephants Trailer

A while back, I posted about reading the book Water for Elephants and that it was being made into a movie with Reese Witherspoon and Rob Pattinson. Well, I stumbled upon the trailer this morning!



Looks good!

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Flour

I got an early Christmas gift this week - the Flour Bakery cookbook! I first heard of this bakery when it was featured on Throwdown with Bobby Flay for its sticky buns (top left of the picture). If I ever make it to Boston, you can bet that I will stop by this place for a treat!





I can't wait to get into this book! There are recipes for the sticky buns, creme-filled donuts, homeade pop-tarts and homeade oreos. Now... what to make first!?!