Brown Sugar Spice Muffins with Nectarines on a colourful plate with dots.

Cook the Book Fridays: Brown Sugar Spice Muffins from Everyday Dorie

(for those of you wondering about my absence from this site in the spring and my surgery in May, I’ve written it up here. I know my “Dorista” friends were surprised when I missed a few deadlines…)   This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Brown Sugar … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie catchup: Curd, Cream and Berry Cake, Mocha-Walnut Torte AND Smoked Salmon Roll-Up from Baking with Dorie

Catching up on the last few weeks’ worth of  Tuesdays with Dorie recipes  Curd, Cream and Berry Cake, Mocha-Walnut Torte AND Smoked Salmon Roll-Up all from Baking with Dorie:  Hi dear readers – it’s been… a while. Quick update for those of you who don’t follow me on Instagram… At the beginning of May (after … Read more

Tuesdays with Dorie: Iced Honey-Apple Scones with Spelt from Baking with Dorie

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is Iced Honey-Apple Scones with Spelt from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie.   Dorie says: These are the scones to make the instant you feel fall in the air. They’ve got apples, honey and tangerine, flavors of the season, and the surprise addition of some spelt, a wheat flour … Read more

Les Petits Chefs (Pâtissiers?) make shortcrust pastry and jam tarts

On March 5th 2020, I posted the last in-person Petits Chefs recap (we made fresh rolls and potstickers with Chef Vanessa Yeung). A week or so later, school went online and clubs halted indefinitely. A month later, in April, I brought cooking club online and that’s where it’s stayed (we have a “community club” now … Read more