My next favorite drink to a caffe latte is a matcha latte. It’s just a convenient and satisfying drink to get in any Starbucks, especially when…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Nut/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Chocolate, Banana and Pecan Cookies | The Ultimate
I don’t buy cookies. And for that matter, I don’t buy breads, salad dressings, nor processed foods. As long as there are flour, butter, sugar, wild…
This pistachio and raspberry financier is the sequel following the success of Dorie’s matcha financier from her book Baking Chez Moi. The story goes that these…
I have these silicon rectangular financier molds, each shaped like a gold ingot, for baking my favorite cakes. Last I baked were these pretty matcha financiers.…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Nut/ Pantry essentials
Basque Macarons | Baking Chez Moi
Basque macarons are the quintessential and unadorned version of their sleek cousins, the Parisian Macarons, from Pay Basque. On days you don’t want to fuss about…
This post is about gratitude. Instead of writing a thank you note. I do what I do best—bake a cake. A gift-worthy cake is the delivery…
The hazelnut, ginger and olive oil cake is not a typical French teacake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi. But ingredients like hazelnut, ginger, polenta and olive…
How true is it that bacon makes everything better? Does bacon enhance ice cream and fruit dessert? We’re putting the bacon ice cream with roasted figs…
Chocolate/ Cream/ Dairy free/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Low fat/ Nut/ whole wheat
Paris-Paris | Whole-Wheat Èclairs with Hazelnut Non-Dairy Cream and Chocolate Glaze
This looks like an everyday pastry. But there is quite a bit of work involved. You have to make the éclair shells and the hazelnut praline…
Made-in-my-kitchen granola is so much better. There hasn’t been any store-bought granola in my pantry ever since we started making our own. Dorie’s recipe calls for…
This is a last-minute holiday cooking inspired by Ina Garten’s video on chocolate truffles. She rolled balls of chocolate ganache over a bed of hazelnuts. I…
This Yotam Ottolenghi’s flourless chocolate teacakes from his new book Sweet call for dark chocolate with 70% cocoa solids. What is it? In general, the higher…
“It’s five o’clock somewhere,” the theme of the week at IHCC. It also means it’s time to have a drink and socialize; holidays are here. A…
Black Friday, cyber Monday and now giving Tuesday. There are much to do at this time of the year. Furthermore, you can always go an extra mile making food…
autumn/ Fruit/ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall/ Nut/ summer
Peach Apple Crumble for Summer/Autumn Crossover
Now in early September, we’re in the midst of a seasonal crossfire – the waning of summer and the stirring of autumn. This is a delicious…
Berry/ Cream/ Dorie Greenspan/ Nut/ Pantry essentials/ year round
Pistachio and Berry Gratins — The Inside-out Tarts with Almond Cream
If you like the idea of an inside-out fruit tart, in the long tradition of tart shells filled with fruits and almond cream, you’d appreciate…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ my favorites/ Nut
Plain & Simple Almond Cake – Gluten-Free (Tuesdays with Dorie)
Making a cake usually involves four ingredients. This recipe needs only three. Nothing more than its magic trinity of ingredients–eggs, sugar and almond flour, according to…
Sometimes the best recipes are the simplest. This hazelnut baby cake is a good example of that. At first glance, it is a basic quick bread…
Any cakes that are made with buttery almond and chocolate get my attention. To make something resembling the natural stripes of a tiger is surely an…
Lighter than conventional pecan pie, no sugar added Pecan pie is such an American classic, but you seldom see it made in a puff pastry…
The morning after I made the Nelly’s cookies for horses in remembrance of Nelly Bly, see the post here, there was a written note on the…
Cream puff dough or pâte à choux paste is one of those coolest preparations and I wonder why I don’t use it more often. The list…
Gluten free/ Healthful Eats/ King Arthur Flour/ my favorites/ Nut/ Sweet
Almond Tart with Seasonal Fruits and Gluten-Free Crust
The Almond Tart I have baked the almond tart several times this year using the King Arthur Flour’s (KAF) recipe. It has proven to be a…