{"id":5188,"date":"2015-02-14T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T01:22:55","slug":"february-avid-bakers-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":"February Avid Baker&#8217;s Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>A few years back (OK, more like, way back in 2008) D. had been participating in this thing called the Daring Bakers.  They&#8217;d put out a recipe each month, and everybody would make that recipe, share how it went, etc.  Well, the PhD intruded, plus we really couldn&#8217;t find anybody who was willing to eat so many baked goods, and we let things lapse.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Fast forward 7 years and D. has decided to start baking again, but not with the Daring Bakers (who have grown into an immense horde of folk, none of whom we know any longer).  Nope &#8211; there&#8217;s a wee group called the <a href='http:\/\/avidbakerschallenge.blogspot.com\/' target=_blank>Avid Baker&#8217;s Challenge<\/a> who seem like a good bunch, so D. will be baking along with them.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>This month&#8217;s baking was to bake <a href='http:\/\/www.christinamarsigliese.com\/2012\/09\/orange-date-almond-biscotti.html' target=_blank>orange, date, and almond biscotti<\/a>.  This recipe is super easy, came together with no trouble whatsoever, and was quite tasty even before the second bake (hey &#8211; there were ends, which &#8230; wouldn&#8217;t have baked right).  I think I&#8217;d want to add some cardamon next time, just to give things a bit more spice.  I also think I&#8217;d bake at a lower temperature, as the bottoms of the biscotti came out a tiny bit dark.  All in all, though, I&#8217;m certain that my coworkers will enjoy these.<\/p>\n<div align=center clear=both><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/16345198160\" target=_blank title=\"Biscotti 3 by wishiwerebaking, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7368\/16345198160_fa1522607f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"553\" alt=\"Biscotti 3\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=Indent>Do visit <a href='http:\/\/avidbakerschallenge.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/february-2015-orange-date-almond.html' target=_blank>Avid Baker&#8217;s Challenge<\/a> to see the other participants&#8217; biscotti.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back (OK, more like, way back in 2008) D. had been participating in this thing called the Daring Bakers. They&#8217;d put out a recipe each month, and everybody would make that recipe, share how it went, etc. Well, the PhD intruded, plus we really couldn&#8217;t find anybody who was willing to eat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}