Dorie Greenspan Greek Honey Dainties on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Greek Honey Dainties

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was Greek Honey Dainties. Dorie says: You may know these fabulous cookies as the Greek specialty melomdakarona, but the mother of my friend Connecticut chef Matt Wick likes to call them Honey Dainties. Whatever you call them, they’re kind of remarkable: the ingredient list looks plain … Read more

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Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Bee’s Sneeze Nuggets

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a savoury bite, named for a cocktail at Booker and Dax, a cocktail bar in New York.  Dorie says: When my friend Rebekah ordered the Bee’s Sneeze, I looked at the ingredient list, took a sip and immediately wanted to turn it into a cookie. … Read more

Pots of Dorie Greenspan honey yoghurt mousse on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Honey-Yogurt Mousse

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is the type of dessert I love for a weeknight. I very rarely eat dessert on a weeknight but sometimes, If I’m headed upstairs for a few more hours’ book writing after dinner, I need a little something to keep me going. If this is … Read more

Dorie Greenspan spiced honey cake on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Spiced Honey Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi – a spiced honey cake – was one I was intrigued to try.  It’s rather like a gingerbread in a lot of ways – and by gingerbread I mean a proper pain d’épices (a French quickbread/ cake made from dark honey and flavoured with Christmas-y … Read more

After school cranberry almond crunch cookies on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Cranberry-almond crunch cookies

There are a couple of things I’ve been thinking lately that seem appropriate to share here in this post.  Firstly, as I work my way through the recipes for my very first cookbook, I’m astounded at the amount of butter (and sugar and eggs) I am getting through.  I mean, really. You have no idea! … Read more