Well, I just got married so I haven't had time to update my Cooking For Engineers website. I did do a bit of cooking on Wednesday night - made another lasagna and played around with sugar.

I used the Krups spice grinder that Braden gave me and made fine sugar out of raw sugar. I was surprised just how fine the grinder made the sugar - like flour!

Then I dunked some banana halves into sugar and caramelized the coating with a butane torch. It formed a nice crisp shell - but after a few minutes lost the hard layer (became soft) and then liquified. So, do the caramelization just before you serve.

Then I melted sugar in a small pot and formed sugar candies. I used the remainder to make caramel, but ended up with a bit too much smokey flavor in the caramel. I then licked the spoons for half and hour and then threw away the rest of the caramel, sugar candies, etc. I brushed my teeth real good that night.
- posted by Michael Chu @ 3:19 PM