Comments on: Inspiration. Have any to spare?

By: pikiKate

pikiKate — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:39:29 +0000

There is also a finnish oven pancake called krupsuaa that may be what you are looking for!

By: Gigil

Gigil — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:23:53 +0000

Hi Joy, catching up reading your blog after being away from the computer for a month. Would LOVE to see a recipe for pretzel bread or rolls. I’ve seen them in stores and had them at restaurants; but it costs around $4 for a teeny loaf. It would be fantastic with a chicken salad….I’m currently looking for a curried chix salad recipe. Love your blog.

By: Emma

Emma — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:44:28 +0000

Alright, so since I have just become a vegan – I need to live my baking fantasies vicariously through others. And as you have so kindly asked for inpiration, this is a lovely outlet! (ofcourse with 300 others posting their baking reves I’m sure this will leave you with more than a few projects, let alone adding mine to the pile!) Are you ready for the onslaught of a repressed baking addict’s cravings? Here we go:

-Blueberry Pizza (my grandmother’s specialty!)
-Imperial Cookies
-Vegan Brownies (if you could find a good one – you would be my HERO!)
-Cacao nibs (in anything!)
-French Tortillon (a brioche dough in lanieres, filled with pastry cream, vanilla bean seeds and mini chocolate chips, folded and twisted. Golden!!)
-Pink Summer Berry Muffins
-Dense, rusty grain bread with a steaming bowl of Pumkin, Black Bean soup!

Ok, I’ll stop – because I could, quite easily, spend hours listing.
I’m excited to see what you concoct!
Cheers,
e.

By: Kate D

Kate D — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:52:05 +0000

Hi Joy and Everyone!

I’d love to see your version of a jelly roll cake. I just KNOW it would be better than the disappointing ones I’ve been cooking up.

By: erin

erin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:40:09 +0000

sweet potato and chocolate…something.
i had this combo in japan in a chocolate straw type dessert. so good together. would love to see what you can make of it.

By: Angela Axiarlis

Angela Axiarlis — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:48:33 +0000

Hi Joy… the woman with so much inspiration….
I so love your website and your amazing recipes.
They always turn out so well and taste divine !
I have been challenged in making some genuine nougat – soft or hard something which will be to di for…
if you come up with something amazing and fantastic i will so ever be indebted ….
Ang From downunder

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:20:38 +0000

I’m sure you have a million fresh ideas by now but some gluten free baked goods would be cool.

By: MelissaJane

MelissaJane — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:36:22 +0000

Oh, and another idea, also stolen from PW: do an “Ask Joy the Baker” thread.

And apparently, my third idea: steal inspirational ideas from other great blogs!

By: MelissaJane

MelissaJane — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:33:47 +0000

(Forgive me if someone already suggested this – I’m supposed to be working, not reading all the comments. Bad MJ.)

If you follow Pioneer Woman, you probably remember her weekend with Pastor Ryan and her challenge dinner where she had readers suggest ingredients that he’d have to use to create the menu. (Salad dressing with lemon jello? Pork crusted with rice crispies? Was a memorable meal.) Why not adapt that idea for your blog? Maybe you could ask readers to suggest three ingredients and randomly pick a response to work into a recipe, menu, or some kind of post. Or you could do a sort of blog-exchange with someone like Ree or some other blogger you like, and set each other a challenge – each pick a set of ingredients that the other has to deal with. Expand everybody’s readership, too.

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:08:24 +0000

Somehwere north of Sausalito – there’s a restaurant and I can’t remember the name of the restaurant – BUT they have an amazing S’mores Pie – graham cracker crust, dark Hershey like chocolate, melted marshmellow with a crusty top – it is by far the best thing I ever tasted with the word “Pie” in the title – I’ve tried to re-create it with no success – I’ve never forgotten that pie!