Cooking & Baking Goals

Discover cooking & baking goals and real progress from the Opus Café community. 15 goals tracked with step-by-step progress updates. Learn how to cook through real examples and practical experience.

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Recent Cooking & Baking Goals (15 total)

Make a Two Tiered Cake

by kiraIn Progress

Finding inspiration from other cakes is important given there are so many different piping techniques and I want to make my cake design slightly ‘unconventional’

Make Sourdough Bread

by rh5Completed

My original starter died so I had to cultivate a new one. Doing so, I baked a very solid loaf by loosely following the recipe below. I don’t have a Dutch oven so I had to make some of my own modifications: - I used a cake tin - I put a pot of water in the oven as well so provide the extra moisture that was missing from the dutch oven - although the bread rose well, I needed to keep it in the oven for probably another 10-15 minutes. - also, the parchment paper (not shown here) stuck to the sides of the bread and cause uneven crisping of the crust so I will probably not use it next time. Maybe I’ll just check a Dutch oven. With that said, though, it tasted great and I’m happy with the result :)

Make sourdough bagels

by vic60Completed

Fun project to make when having time. Takes 24 hours to finish, and the results is delicious.

learn how to chop vegetables like a chef

by jimIn Progress

I love to watch chefs as they cook, in particular when they chop vegetables fast and with precision. I'd like to master this skill too. I hope my veggies will cook more evenly when well chopped.

Lunch Salad

by rbczhengCompleted

I’m wrapping up the salad goal so I move on to eating more complex carbs and fiber. Hard to do that with salads, but overall I’m feeling quite good about my salad making abilities now

Eating Good Dinner At Home

by rbczhengCompleted

I'm no longer stressed out about cooking at home, and I can efficiently make a salad with enough protein. Been eating similar dinner for 3 months now lol

Chicken sandwiches

by rbczhengCompleted

I stopped following recipes, which is a bad move. These sandwiches after the first 2 are horrific, and I decided that’s the best recipes.

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