Apple Cake

One of my favorite pass time aside from watching the telly is surfing the net. Does that still count as being a couch potato? I hope not. One fine day, I stumbled upon Smitten Kitchen and ever since then I always check what she's up to next. Most often than not, her recipes are easy, interesting and what I'm looking for at that exact moment. Like this recipe of an Apple Cake from her mom. My dad loves apple pie. The problem is I can't seem to get the hang of making a pie crust. My pie often comes out tough and I find it hard to roll our pie dough evenly, to be honest any sort of dough that needs to be roll out, I can't seem to do it. One side always ends up a bit thinner than the other side, they always come out lop sided, which can be a bit frustrating at time. I've been eyeing on these Joseph Joseph Adjustable Rolling Pin, they are not cheap I might add however to get that frustration out I think it's worth it and it works. I've read a lot of nice reviews online, I've decided to get one. Unfortunately, it's out of stock, I've only seen it once and I only saw one piece! I should have bought it then but I was afraid to impulse buy specially on baking materials without checking reviews online because most of the time they are expensive. Now I'm determined to hunt this down ^_^

Look What I Got!

I'm a huge fan of Cooks Illustrated for 2 years now, I got my first copy of this magazine in my favorite second hand store. The first time I saw this I was like what kind of magazine is this it's so thin probably not get a lot of infos here. When I opened it and began reading I was so amaze how much one tiny magazine gave me. From that day on, whenever I go to the second hand bookshop I see to it that I check for new back issues. What I love about this is they explain the process of how they ended up with that particular recipe and what are other methods they thought off before getting that perfect recipe. I'm a baking gal therefore, I, myself don't cook a lot maybe once every few months but with Cooks Illustrated makes cooking look far more entertaining.