Making the sables is a break away from the gluten-free, sugar-free and dairy-free cookies I last baked, over a year ago. Seeing the results of other…
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…
The Alsace-style cheesecake recipe comes from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi. This cheesecake is typical of Alsace in eastern France. It is a light cheesecake filled…
I’ve eaten more carrot cakes than I’ve baked them. Carrot cakes are popular and mainstream in the US; they are found on dessert tables everywhere. I’m…
Felt like I’m taking the easy way out in making the mixed berry vegan meringues. Open a can of chickpeas while saving the liquid. The alternative…
dessert/ easy everyday/ Fruit/ my favorites/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake (National Trust Version)
The “national trust version” of this lemon and poppy seed cake recipe comes with a warranty, metaphorically speaking. The cake is as trustworthy and predictable as any…
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…
A hot chocolate is my preferred drink at the ski lodge when I desperately needed to warm up my freezing fingers and toes from the…
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…
dessert/ featured/ Other Sweets/ pastry/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Saffron, Orange and Honey Madeleines | Giving Thanks
I so look forward to the Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends, while enjoying some good home-cooked Thanksgiving staples. It helps tremendously when you know your…
How do you pair apples and pears in one coherent dish? It is the challenge on hand this week at IHCC. I baked some Anjou pears…
Chocolate/ Levain & Yeast Hybrid/ modernist/ my favorites
Chocolate Cherry Sourdough Bread in “Modernist Bread”
The chocolate cherry sourdough bread recipe is published in the New York Times article, “slicing through the myths to rethink bread.” The article reviews the new…
Appetizer/ Fruit/ quick bread/ Side/ Yeast bread/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Black Grape, Blue Cheese and Thyme Flatbread #YotamOttolenghi
I felt a real connection of place, history and food when I stayed on a farm in Tuscany years ago. That was a place where acres…
Chocolate/ David Lebovitz/ dessert/ Gluten free
Chocolate Cakes with Dulce de Leche and Fleur de Sel
These individual chocolate cakes with dulce de leche and fleur de sel came out of the oven like earth cakes. I called them earth cakes for…
Babas au rhum are yeast cakes saturated with syrup, with a high concentration (20%) of hard liquor, mostly dark rum. Babas are seen in most patisseries…
We made these blueberry, almond and lemon cakes when Yotam Ottolenghi wrote about his relationship with berries in his column “Head Over Heels for Berries” published…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ Fruit/ my favorites/ summer/ Sweet
Brown Butter Peach Tourte | Tuesdays with Dorie
This brown butter peach tourte came out better and bigger than I’ve expected. The caramelized brown butter makes for a fragrant tourte. Furthermore, I made the…
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…
Artisan bread/ breakfast/ Fruit/ Mark Bittman/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ Simmer
Quick Low-Sugar Tomato Jam | #Tomato
I can’t think of a better and enduring way to capture the sunshine of summer than a jar of tomato jam. Spread it on a crusty…
Bake/ breakfast/ Cream/ dessert/ Fruit/ my favorites/ summer
Stone Fruits Clafoutis or Dutch Baby in a Cast-Iron Pan
Cherries, apricots and peaches are at their seasonal best. They are sweet, juicy and luscious; there is nothing I want to eat more. The season for…
The Savoy cake is one of the oldest in the French repertoire. Whether it is French or Italian, is the subject of debate. Leaving that aside,…
These Dorie Greenspan’s bar cookies pack layers of flavor and surprises. Fruity berries flourish on top. The sweet velvety custard and the chewy grainy cornmeal crust…