Mardi Michels 
It’s an auspicious occasion today – this is my 2000th (!!!!) post on this blog since May 2009! The recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen this week is a variation on a classic – Paris-Brest. That classic dessert is a large ring of choux-pastry, filled with crème pâtissière, created … Read more
There’s nothing like practising knife skills to keep little hands busy in the kitchen and this week, the Petits Chefs got to practice (and show off!) theirs as they prepared Rainbow Rice Paper Rolls from Cameron Stauch’s beautiful new book, Vegetarian Viet Nam (full review and giveaway coming to the blog on the weekend!). This … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies used an ingredient I don’t think I’ve seen before in a cookie (but it’s one that makes a lot of sense) – ricotta. Dorie says: A thousand things make cookies beguiling, and one of them is their ability to surprise. So often a cookie’s looks are … Read more
I don’t know about you but I always think that “New Year’s Resolutions” in January are particularly badly-timed in the Northern Hemisphere because the middle of winter is a hard time to turn over a new leaf, even with the strongest will power. I always think of spring as being a better time to start … Read more
It’s quite amazing to think that the very first food blog I ever read, Chocolate & Zucchini still around today, because that was back in something like 2004 (she’s been writing C&Z since 2003)! I’ve read every post Clotilde’s ever written and own all her books (Chocolate & Zucchini: Daily Adventures in a Parisian Kitchen, … Read more
Win a copy of Clotilde Dusoulier’s Tasting Paris! Thanks to the kind folks at Penguin Random House, I have one copy of Clotilde Dusoulier’s Tasting Paris (I wrote about it here to give away to one lucky Canadian or US reader! How to enter: There are 2 ways to enter (maximum of two entries per … Read more