The Art Of Baking

Have you ever wanted to recreate your favorite restaurant dishes to enjoy in your own home? If you answered yes. Then your in luck because Stephanie Manley , the creator of the popular Copykat blog , has now two cookbooks on the subject of dining out.It includes a wide collection of her unique homemade recipes based from popular American Restaurants.Some dishes you will recognize almost instantly while others will be quite brand new to everyone.However all the author want is us reader's to get creative and enjoy a special meal. So what do we know about Stephanie.Well we can learn a lot about her on the website;however her recent cookbook titled Dining Out At Home 2 has painted a pretty detailed picture .That while I read the introduction and through each recipe I feel she is quite an inspiring and passionate women.She created her blog in 1995 to purely save her family recipes and now it has blossomed into two successful cookbooks.I can definitely identify with her on her ...

The next chapter after "Seasonal Studs" is called  "Aqua Fresca And Shrubs". These sodas are all about utilizing watery fruits and shrubs to create unique drinks. This chapter however includes too many ingredients that are either expensive or too hard to find.So instead of making a recipe from this section I chose to wrap up the entire review with the last chapter called "Fizzy Teas,Floats And Alcohol Enhanced Dazzlers" .This includes some of the more grown up fun drink to try out! So in this chapter,It explains to me that all these recipes are about going beyond the basics.By making unique soda's by using ingredients such as tea,coffee, chocolate and strong alcohol etc.So your probably wondering what choice I made for a recipe review.Well to be perfectly I ended up making  two different recipes that both have the same important component.If you guessed that it has something to do with chocolate then your, totally right.I ended up making a chocola...

This chapter,from the Artisan Soda Workshop is all about taking advantage of seasonal fruits to create unique and healthy syrups.So,the recipe that I chose to make from "Seasonal Studs" was a simple peach syrup. The syrup recipe itself had pretty basic directions and only needed three simple ingredients to make it.The most important part to the whole recipe was boiling,mashing and straining of the juice.The one part however that I think is a fault in the directions is to throw away perfectly good fruit that can be used toward a recipe.This could of been easily fixed by giving the reader a tip or suggestion.For me I used the leftover peaches towards a recipe that I'll be reviewing next.Overall the recipe was quick and easy. Now the flavor for this drink,well I'm told about this recipe that the syrup is subtle with a mild peach flavor.Well with this info I knew I wasn't getting my bold peach flavor that I wanted so when I tasted the soda...

The Artisan Soda Workshop :Chapter 3:Cherries & Berries    Have you e ver thought about making your own natural soda b y utilizing the fla vor and health benefits of berries .Well this chapter is all about this idea , to use our favorite berries to create syrups .   So to get s tarted it says to receive the best results in flavor is to use berries at their peak seaso n.However when you want a fruity drink in winter, frozen ca n create a good result as well. So w ith this info , I tested out a recipe for strawberry syrup .These berries were in season at the time so I was able to use fresh and are one of my favorites . I t se emed like a great fit for me. So when I made this recipe it was pretty simple to follow. All I basically had to do was boil the ingredients ,mash the berries and then strain the juices. I can see anyone being able to make this recipe and others in this chapter. However I do have to mention that their was one...

  The Artisan Soda Workshop Cookbook : Chapter 3 :  Soda Adventures W ith H erbs & S pices. In the introduction of this chapter, I am told that these soda recipes are more fit for the grown-up palate.With this information, I knew that these soda's would be less sweet with more natural flavor.So when I chose a recipe to test out I knew I was in for something quite different .So t he syrup that I ma d e was for pineapple-basil syrup that is to resemble a tropical flavored drink,which is the one recipe that I tested out from this chapter. The recipe for pineapple-basil syrup was very simple to follow in directions and only needed three ingredients to create it.However when I made this soda I was quite surprise by the flavor.I knew that these recipes would be more for the grown- up palate, but I wasn't at all expecting a weak flavored drink.This syrup even threw me off because I thought pineapple juice would of created a strong acidic flavor against the sod...