As In the French kitchen with kids has made its way out into the world, I’ve been so excited to see people cooking up a storm from the book and sharing their creations – check out Instagram and the #intheFrenchkitchenwithkids hashtag to see all the action! Watch me, listen to me and read all about […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Old Bay Pretzel-and-Cheese Cookies
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a fun little savoury cookie that is perfect for apéritif hour. Dorie says: For years, I wanted to make a cookie that would go with beer. From the start, I knew I wanted it to have pretzels and some cheese. I worked on the cookie […]
French Fridays: Warm chocolate cake with salted butter caramel sauce from My Paris Kitchen
There’s really not much to say about this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. It’s a warm (molten) chocolate cake served with salted butter caramel sauce. It’s the perfect dinner party dessert because you can make all the components in advance, refrigerating the batter in the ramekins and […]
Les Petits Chefs make Chopped Thai Salad from Modern Lunch (with Allison Day!)
Are you the eater of a sad desk lunch? Want to make lunch the meal you look forward to most? Well you need a copy of Allison Day’s latest book, Modern Lunch! From the publisher: Modern Lunch is the new lunchtime hero for time-strapped, budget-conscious, and salad-fatigued people everywhere. Focusing on healthy, quick–and, yes, Instagrammable–recipes […]
eat. live. travel. write. is TEN today!
Break out the bubbles because this blog turns 10 today! That’s right – on May 15th 2009, this blog was born… If you want to read the full story about how and why I started a blog all those years ago, you can sign up to receive my brand new newsletter! The first edition comes […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Cookies-and-Cream Tartlets
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi sounds complicated but actually couldn’t be easier. “Cookies and Cream” refers to a few different parts of the recipe. It starts with a wonderfully buttery sweet shortcrust pastry. You spread a little bit of spéculoos spread/ cookie butter on the base of this pastry shell […]
Cook the Book Fridays: Green as spring soup from Everyday Dorie
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and was the perfect soup to enjoy over Easter weekend (which wasn’t exactly spring-like but at least it wasn’t snowing… hey, we take what we can get in this era of odd weather…). This calls for green veggies – […]
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