http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:45:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en we've gone totally crazy for the grill here in our new place. you know that feeling, on the very last day of school, when you know you're done for the year, and you've got a whole summer of doing whatever you want ahead of you? having a grill makes every ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/07/grilled-pizza/ a week and a half in our new place, and this pie is already the third thing we've baked. the very first was a batch of chocolate chip cookies (to test out the oven), followed by blueberry muffins. but this past weekend we had a few people over for a ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/06/peach-pie/ in the short history of this blog, i've already moved twice. my moves were both in a 3-block radius, but regardless, it's never an easy thing to do. the girl and i spent the entire weekend moving boxes and bags and furniture and plants into our new place (yes, i ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/06/strawberry-rhubarb-shortcake/ all of the best foods have "bizzaro" versions: regular pizza has dessert pizza, apple pie has chicken pot pie, and monkey bread has...savory monkey bread (though if you're looking for a really good sweet monkey bread recipe, go HERE). this works out great, because while i have a serious sweet ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/06/cheesy-savory-monkey-bread/ it's that time of year again! washingtonian magazine has released its top cheap eats for washington dc (many of which are actually in va and md. hmmmm...). the girl and i don't typically hit up a lot of the big name restaurants around here, but we're always looking for a ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/06/the-washingtonian-cheap-eats-2009-map/ if you've got a few hours to kill on a sunday afternoon, why not whip up some pasta? hold on, you've never made fresh pasta? it's easy - here, i'll show you. now you have no excuse. take 2 cups flour and pour it out on a work surface. form it ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/06/fresh-pasta/ before i moved down to dc, i spent 4 years at school in baltimore. people say a lot of disparaging things about baltimore (most of which are based entirely on episodes of the wire), and granted, it did take a while for me to warm up to the city, but ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/05/cannolis/ not only has it been a while since i last posted (sorry), it's been a long while since i've made bread from scratch (double sorry). i had convinced myself that i would try to make fresh bread each week so i could stop buying it from the grocery store, but ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/05/pain-de-campagne/ can we all agree that winter dragged on for far too long this year? in dc, we've been eagerly awaiting spring, but instead we skipped straight to summer - literally a 40 degree temperature change over one week. at this point, it's easier to just accept the weather. the only problem ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/05/rhubarb-tart-with-orange-glaze/ over the weekend, i engaged in deadly (not really) food battle against nick! if anyone reading this blog doesn't know who nick is, you need to get to know him. nick runs an amazing blog called macheesmo, where among many other things, he allows other bloggers to challenge him to ... http://www.peterandrewryan.com/baking/2009/05/food-battle-lamb-and-leeks/