{"id":5564,"date":"2019-10-23T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:26:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T22:26:06","slug":"observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/observations\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new cooking mag yesterday and all the food looked really garish to me. Like the cover with this drippy red cranberry bread, that could just as easily be a meatloaf.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/page_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/page_1.jpg 363w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/page_1-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/page_1-340x450.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And one of the &#8220;dazzling desserts&#8221; the cover refers to is this Croquembouche (tower of baby cream puffs, with spun sugar wrapped around) that to me looks like a Halloween Green Bay Packers witch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisiencroq2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisiencroq2.jpg 509w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisiencroq2-117x150.jpg 117w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisiencroq2-352x450.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisinecroq.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisinecroq.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisinecroq-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cuisinecroq-345x450.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But maybe it all only looked so bad to me because I was garish, or had eaten too much sugar too late at night, anyways. I tried to make these <a href=\"https:\/\/cooking.nytimes.com\/recipes\/1019593-baked-apple-cider-doughnuts\">apple cidar doughnuts<\/a> in my mini muffin pan and I think the batter was too thin, so they had big flat tops that stuck and they broke. I rolled some of them in cinnamon sugar despite their crumbled-ness, but really the best thing to do was just eat as many of them as possible while they were still warm and delicious, although crumbled. So that&#8217;s what I did.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5569\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5569\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/failedcidar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/failedcidar.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/failedcidar-150x89.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/failedcidar-650x384.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sugared &amp; NOT sugared, failed, cidar mini-muffins. Guess I&#8217;ll freeze them for future trifle.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a new cooking mag yesterday and all the food looked really garish to me. Like the cover with this drippy red cranberry bread, that could just as easily be a meatloaf. And one of the &#8220;dazzling desserts&#8221; the cover refers to is this Croquembouche (tower of baby cream puffs, with spun sugar wrapped &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/23\/observations\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[179,235,14],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-ds83473gmail-com","4":"post-5564","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-blogpost","9":"post_tag-failures","10":"post_tag-food-photography","11":"post_tag-overeating"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5573,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/5573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}