Tuesday with Dorie

This week Lyb of And then I do the dishes- chose Chocolate Armagnac Cake - The Cake That Got Me Fired.

I will be a little late, this week was just not conductive to cooking. I got my eyes dilated yesterday and well they stayed that way until bed time, 4-6 hours my foot. Today I had my first meeting with an oral surgeon. It turns out that I will need both upper, Le Fort I Osteotomy and lower, Mandibular Sagittal Split Osteotomy jaw surgery. I will meet with 2 more surgeons later this month.

My lower jaw is to short, I have been unhinging my jaw to talk, eat, yawn and many other things. I knew that my lower jaw would need to be moved forward but the fact that my top teeth do not touch in the right places was a surprise. I can get one to touch right but the other does not touch at all and vice a versa.

The part that will be tha most fun is that for six weeks after the surgery I will have to change my diet. To start for the first few weeks I will be on a liquid diet, then a very soft food diet working my way up to cruncy foods. I am sure that at the end of that I will really want some nachos. The good thing is that this will not be happening for a few months to a year.


As a bright and shiny distraction I have the quilt I finshed last month for my neice's birthday.

Tuesday with Dorie - Caramel Crunch Bars

Whitney of What’s left on the table? chose Caramel Crunch Bars, or really her children did. This was a very easy recipe. Instead of using the 9 by 13 pan I used 2 tart pans. One I used chocolate butterscotch chips on and the other has a crushed up butterfinger with what chocolate chips I had left. I did end up adding 2 tablespoons of milk to the base, it was very crumbly.

Tuesday with Dorie - Berry Surprise Cake

This week Mary Ann of Meet Me in the Kitchen chose Berry Surprise Cake. Which did not want to play nice with me. I tried to make it twice. The first time it just did not rise and the second in rose and then fell all the way. This is a cake where I have a feeling that the altitude that I live at played a factor in. 6062 feet is just a little high and this tend to make some my baking a little different. I ended up using what I had in a few trifles. Which went over well at the parties I went to last week.

Tuesday with Dorie - French Pear Tart

This special three kings day version of Tuesday with Dorie was Chosen by the author herself… Dorie Greenspan has chosen the French Pear Tart. This tart was very good. If you were to make it all in one day a little time consuming but I did a little for the last few nights so it was not that bad. The recipe had me do some new things for me. I poached pears and made almond cream for the first time. Poaching the pears was not near as hard as I thought that it would be. I used the left over syrup in a muffin recipe as the liquid. For the glaze I used some peach jam.

Tuesday with Dorie -Tall and Creamy Cheesecake

Well this is just a week late. Last week, December 30: Anne of AnneStrawberry chose Tall and Creamy Cheesecake. Wow this was a good basic cheesecake recipe. This is a recipe that you can do a lot of things with. I just changed the crust, I used Oreo cookies, this was fun. The cake did not last more than 2 days. My brother and I had a small piece and then I took the rest to work where it did not last after lunch. Everyone like cheesecake, the pieces take were fairly large.

Cookie Exchange

I got some very good Scandinavian Christmas Nougats from Siri, the Transplanted Baker. With them was some black liquorice and a very cute ornament. Well the Nougat is disappearing fairly fast, by the time I got the picture two and a half pieces were gone. Wow this is good. I liked the liquorice but my brother did not.

Thank You! Batter-Splattered for holding this.

Tuesday with Dorie the Cookie edition

December 2: noskos of Living the Life chose Linzer Sables

December 9: Ulrike of Küchenlatein chose Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies

December 16: Heather of Randomosity and the Girl chose Buttery Jam Cookies

I have to say that I am not that good at making cookies, I generally can make the dough OK but the baking of the cookies mostly goes wrong for me. The Buttery Jam Cookies came out the best. I used cranberry jam and they come out a little biscuit like. I will most definitely make them again.

Linzer Sables Cookies these were the cookies that really went wrong. I think that they needed some more moisture, the dough was very dry. I padded out half of the dough and spread some more of the cranberry jam and sprinkled the rest of the dough on top. After cooling I cut the cookies as if they were bar cookies. They tasted good but in no way looked like what they should have.

Grandma’s All-Occasion Sugar Cookies taste great but I had trouble rolling and cutting them out. In the end I just rolled them into a log and sliced them. They did take twice as long to cook.

I am glad that I am done with cookies for a while.

Dorie will be late

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