This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was the classic French snack, Palmiers. Made with just a handful of ingredients (puff pastry, sugar and butter), it’s an excellent after-school snack but it works for a little hit of sweetness with an espresso in the afternoon or after dinner. This version is small, … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is a simple, crustless cheesecake recipe, named for David’s Paris friend, Dee, who moved there from New York in 1959 and learned to make this cheesecake with the ingredients that were available because she missed it so much. In France, until … Read more
The Petits Chefs are back for the final term of the school year! Typically, the first few weeks of club are a little all over the place as boys are still trying out for teams and don’t know if they’ve made it for a week or two so I never really know who is showing … Read more
Ever found yourself somewhere new with a list a mile long of places to eat/ foods to try? Well when you’re travelling solo, it’s nearly impossible to get through that list (and believe me, I have travelled on my own enough to know!) – because, really, there is only so much you can eat in … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a three-in-one recipe called “Good, Better, Best” with three different iterations. I made them all because I am curious like that. Dorie says: This cookie is proof that sometimes as good as good can be, more can be better and even more can be best. … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was caillettes (literally: little quails but actually a sort of large meatball made with sausage meat, liver and chard or other greens and wrapped in caul fat- somewhere between a pâté and a meatball, as explained in this excellent article by … Read more