Baking with Brazil nuts

[wiseheart]

... or Paranüsse, as the Germans call them, is something I never did before. But last week I saw Brazil nuts at ALDI and decided to give them a try. Granted, they were outrageously expensive, but still not as much as pine nuts, so I allowed myself to be a bit irresponsible. I buy everything else when they are price-reduced (saving for craft supplies, which hardly ever are), so I thought I'd give myself a treat.

Surfing the internet, I found this recipe at chefkoch.de, my favourite go-to website in things baking. Surprisingly enough, it doesn't require whole pounds of butter or dozens of eggs or whatnot, plus I've got some 8-year-old plum jam in the fridge that needs to be used up, so these biscuits will have a go. As the dough has to chill in the fridge overnight, I've made it already - the first step to victory (it actually cooperated!). I hope it will allow me to roll it out properly tomorrow. *fingers crossed*

Having spent the morning in the bank and at the supermarket/craft shops, respectively, left me with fairly little time for actual crafting. Nonetheless, I managed to finish the first one of the three identical baby book pages, with all the bells and whistles, so I'm content. Besides, the trip to the craft shops resulted some amazingly beautiful paper pads (with hot foil, too), which I absolutely didn't need at the moment but couldn't resist. Mum liked them, too, so I got the nod afterwards. ;))

In the afternoon I talked to my goddaughter who has her name day today; and with her mother first, to find out when she'd be available. I could have saved myself that step as E. has caught the flu from her 7-year-old son and was at home, but I didn't know that. Anyway, we had a nice chat.

Fortunately, we had leftovers, so no cooking was necessary. Tomorrow I'll have to improvise some kind of soup between two batches of baking, and we'll have Wiener Würstchen with a salad and perhaps mashed potatoes? We'll see.

Oh, and for anyone who might be interested in picowrimo - I'm just about to announce the March session. If you aren't a writer, you still can drop by regularly to encourage us, poor wretches, who are trying to climb out of the abyss otherwise known as writer's block.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

These cookies look so nice, I hope they turn out just as tasty as they look.

Chefkoch.de truly is magic, so many of my favorite recipes come from there. Crowdsourced recipe wisdom truly is the way to go. I love recipe books, too, but depending on the theme, there is usually such a small percentage of recipes for which I can actually get the ingredients or recipes that sound interesting to me.

Oh, I didn't even mention my cooking (mis)adventure today. I had to make lasagne in a different tin than the Jenaer Glas Auflaufform I always use, and that ended up being a baking tin I use for roast chicken. Which turned out A LOT larger than I had anticipated, so now we will have a week's worth of lasagne.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

See the bright side of it: you won't have to cook again until next week. *g*

[artemis10002000]

Haha, that's true! It turned out quite nice, by the way, despite my uncertainty if it would work out since I had no idea about time or heat for this tin

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Sometimes you just have to go on and hope for the best. *g*

[meathiel]

Hmmmm ... I love Brazil nuts. As long as they're peeled!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

This will be my first experience with them. If it turns out to be a positive one, I might give them another try. :D

[noadvertising.livejournal.com]

I swear I will drop in a few times, to keep you going, even though you will have to cut back on crafting eventually!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I definitely will have to cut back on crafting a bit — which is why I was trying to do as much in February as possible.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

I've never thought about cooking with Brazil nuts. Interesting.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

You can find recipes for everything! Especially on chefkoch.de, and they use metric measures, which is a true relief.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[red-day-dawning.livejournal.com]

Yes, nuts and seeds are crazy expensive. Hope the cookies turn out well.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Yes, they did! *points at next entry*

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

St. Nicholas would fill the bottom half of our stockings with a mixture of pecans, almonds, hazelnuts and Brazil nuts. All in the shell. The Brazil nuts were so hard to crack open!

And so, I too hope your Brazil nuts are already shelled. I suspect they are, if they were in the baking ingredients section of Aldi's.

Good luck with the baking! See you at Picowrino. I'm having a warm-up session today, doing some idea-gathering for an Easter challenge. I lost all motivation to write last November so I have high hopes for a fresh start.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I only ever buy nuts that are shelled already. I need my fingertips for sewing. *g*