Is it a tart or is it a pizza? Dorie Greenspan says that everyone in France thinks that apple tart flambée is a pizza, except…
bread with preferment/ Fruit/ quick cake/ sweet bread/ Tartine/ whole wheat
Zucchini-Kumquat 100% whole-wheat Tea Cakes
This zucchini kumquat cakes is one of the trio 100% whole-wheat teacake recipes in Tartine Book No.3. I have posted the other two: apple walnut…
The project at hand is to make a 30-minute express meal. (See IHCC for details.) The clock is ticking. Time is a blur. I wonder how…
Who could have thought of using blueberries and corn with the iconic Philadelphia cream cheese to make a cool summer tart like this? I have…
Two pounds of fresh apricots in a tart to start, what an amazing mound of summer fruits for a dessert? I’m keen to buy up…
Summer galette puts a smile on my face for the wide variety of juicy and delicious fruits I can use in it. This is the…
When there is abundance of fresh summer fruits around more than you can eat and you want to extend the peak-of-the-season fruits beyond the summer…
July 4th is right around the corner. I need to come up with a dessert to bring to a celebration party far away from home. So…
These extra moist lemon cakes came about from Yotam Ottolenghi and his team cooking their way through the dessert recipes for his new book, yet…
Another fancy cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi (page 103) is a challenge I can’t resist. Le Fraisier is the French cake that celebrates the…
breakfast/ Fruit/ Low fat/ Pantry essentials/ quick bread/ Sweet
French Toast with Microwave Brioche, Berry Sauce and Vegan Whip Cream
French toast is great for weekend breakfasts, especially with company. It takes more time to prepare but its elegant taste and look is making up for…
Tarte Tropézienne, a popular cake in Saint-Tropez pastry shops, was described by Pierre Hermé to be mythique. At least that was how Dorie Greenspan recounted…
This salted butter caramel-chocolate mousse is rich and decadent. You would surely expect that from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. I made half of the…
Smoothies of any flavor, berries, tropical or greens, are among the best and easy eats that I like to make when I have fresh fruits…
Inspired by Blue Hill’s Inspiration of this chocolate bread came from an unlikely source. We were celebrating a milestone birthday for my husband a week…
What is jammer galette? Not until I’ve read Dorie’s instructions in Baking with Chef Moi several times and made them this weekend that I finally got…
Matcha financier baked in muffin tin I like matcha. I like financier. And I like white chocolate (the bonne idée). They go so well together with…
This recipe is adapted from Dorie Greenspan’s Odile’s fresh orange cake in Baking with Chez Moi. Like all things in life, there are so many ways…
I adore molten chocolate or lava cakes and have been collecting and saving the recipes. But I have never attempted to make them until now.…
Blueberry Spelt & Oat Scone Currant & Pine Nut Cream Scone Name the most common ingredients in scones. Probably, you would find all-purpose flour, sugar, butter…
Nothing can get me out of bed faster than the stirring aroma of food or java from the kitchen. The trouble is: I’m the primary cook…
Gluten free/ Healthful Eats/ modernist/ Sweet
Mango Black Rice Pudding: Dairy- and Refined-Sugar-Free Dessert
Green veggies have long been hailed as healthful foods that are good for us. Less well known is that dark fruits, vegetables and grains are nutritional…
My command of the Dutch language is limited to three words. The three shapes (ronde, ovaal and vierkant) of the biscuit/cookie that “everybody in Holland knows.”…
There is only one ingredient in this recipe. One-ingredient recipes hardly exist in our style of cooking. Not even sugar or salt and pepper are needed…
This is the season of cookies making – and giving. I make these special macarons once a year for friends whom I don’t get to know…