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 […]
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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 […]
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 – […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Chocolate-Oatmeal Biscoff Cookies
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a simple chocolate oatmeal cookie with a hidden ingredient – Biscoff (or Speculoos) spread. Dorie says: In these cookies, which have oatmeal, cocoa and chocolate chips, the Biscoff isn’t obvious, but it is necessary. It’s part of what gives these small sweets their great texture […]
French Fridays: Green olive, basil, and almond tapenade from My Paris Kitchen
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is a nice twist on a tapenade. Made with green olives, capers, basil, garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and almonds, it’s light and fresh and, while I know that tapenade is typically spread on crackers or small toasts, we used this […]
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