Mardi Michels Happy (French) Friday! I’m in the last throes of signing off on bits and pieces on my manuscript (we’re at the index!) and starting to think ahead to marketing and publicity (choosing recipes to share with media outlets eventually) and my head has been deep in recipes this week. While I love the baking component … Read more
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
It’s Family Day here in Ontario today – the perfect time to catch up on cookbook reading, right? Today, I’m excited to share Christine Tizzard’s debut cookbook, Honest to Goodness: Everyday Recipes for the Home Cook. From the publisher: Chef and TV Host Christine Tizzard knows that for all the things you can’t control in … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen was one I’ve tasted, but not made, before. David’s carrot cake was made for one of my Cookbook Book Club meals back in 2016, by Jan, and I’m glad I’d had her experience making this to guide me. This is a HUGE … Read more
For this week’s session of “Cooking the Books” Les Petits Chefs worked with a recipe from Gail Simmons’ latest cookbook Bringing it Home: Favorite Recipes from a Life of Adventurous Eating. Last year, I reviewed “Bringing it Home”, and I called it “smart and funny”. Here’s what I had to say: In recent years as … Read more
I have a confession to make: I didn’t taste the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week. I did make it but passed it onto my (gluten-free) neighbours who looked after Cleo when I was out of town recently. Baking it forward, so to speak! This is version of the classic French … Read more