Twice Bake 2 Minute Take!
Hello everyone! We are so happy to announce our new twist on preparing recipes. Both of us will be preparing the same recipes but in very different ways. In the end they will look exactly the same! Joy will be making everything from scratch (for all you die hard cooks and chefs) and following a recipe precisely, and Judy will always be taking a shortcut on price of ingredients and finding the easiest and fastest way to do anything! In the end, both recipes will look exactly the same and you won't be able to tell the difference! This will be a lot of fun and very entertaining for you and definitely for us!!! Please look for our new recipes and videos on our "Twice Bake 2 minute take!" very soon.
With the economy being as tough as it is these days, we will share recipes that are cost effective and easy to prepare. They will always be totally fabulous in flavor, but with a twist on the presentation. Remember, people eat with their eyes first, so how a dish is set before them is just as important as the flavor of the dish itself.
We love to go back to our childhood and recreate those comfortable classics and share the great memories and heartwarming stories from an era gone by with our readers. We encourage them to write in and share their recipes with us and with their permission we will post as many as we can in the newspaper and all of them on our website.
From very young, Joy has been known to ask anyone and everyone and at any time,"what are you preparing for dinner tonight?" or "What is your traditional holiday meal and why?" It doesn't matter where she is. It could be a bus (in NYC), a train, a plane or just someone in the aisle at the grocery store (her children get so embarrassed). Nothing matters, she has to know or at least try and ask!
We have been told by many that we intoxicate our family and friends with an array of various flavors in the dishes we put before them, and tease them with the aromas of the delicious dessert and freshly perked coffee that is yet to come. What could be better than being around a table with the people you love.
We are identical twins Judy and Joy and have lived in Connecticut all of our lives. Our love of food and our passion for people have led us on this wonderful and exciting journey we have chosen.
It all begins in our mother's kitchen where she and her mom, our Nana, would prepare delicious and elaborate meals for the family and anyone else who was lucky enough to be there. We have a large family so there was always a party or an event to celebrate. As the years passed each one of us married and had children of our own taking the memories of our childhood with us and passing them onto the next generation. We decided to expand our love of baking for our family and friends by starting a luxurious dessert business focusing on the elaborate displays and presentation. The business expanded over five years and serviced the elite of Fairfield County.
Television was always exciting to the both of us, so we decided to do something for the Food Network. They called us immediately and asked us to do a holiday special for them where we recreated a recipe for a roasted goose that was once a favorite of our Grandfather. The show was a great success for us and we plan to work with the network again in the future. We are currently working on channel 3's Better Connecticut, a morning talk show, and appear regularly to share classic recipes with a new twist and "all dressed up". Most of our recipes are cost effective and simple to prepare with the exception of the holidays where we might want to splurge a little!
On our website, judyandjoy.com, we refer to these recipes as part of our weekly I"twin"erary, where visitors can watch our online videos and share their recipes with us. We are also getting ready to film a video for public access t.v. which will be seen throughout the state of Connecticut and write a bi-monthly food column in many Connecticut news papers.
"Twin"cerely yours,
Judy and Joy
"Twice Baked Twins"