Baking Chez Moi Dorie Greenspan Cocoa Crunch Meringue Cookies on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Cocoa Crunch Meringue Cookies

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe reminded me so much of some of my earlier attempts at making macarons (oh my gosh I have come so far!!) that from now on, in my classes, I’ll be telling people that if their macarons don’t turn out, they can just sandwich them together with ganache and call … Read more

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with kamut flour on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

I’m a bit of a sucker for pretty packaging, I’ll admit. So when I first saw the 1847 Stone Milling flour packages on Instagram, I was smitten. Then I read a little bit about the company, the flours and the (fully compostable!) packaging and was even more impressed. Not just pretty packaging, 1847 Stone Milling … Read more

Cream eggs in chocolate egg shells on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Happy Easter!

When I travel in France, one of the souvenirs I unfailingly haul home is cooking magazines. I don’t buy or subscribe to that many these days but I love to see what’s happening on the French culinary scene.  On my recent trip, as soon as I saw this feature in Marmiton showing how to make … Read more

Matcha financiers from Dorie Greenspan's Baking Chez Moi on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Matcha Financiers

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is a take on one of my favourite French treats – financiers.  Financiers are small cakes, very similar to sponge cakes but contain almond flour and are made with beurre noisette.  Typically, they are are baked in small rectangular molds (the name financier is said to come from this … Read more

Edd Kimber Chouquettes on eatlivetravelwrite.com

French Fridays: French baking with kids

UPDATE: for the ultimate baking with kids resource, how about picking up a copy of my book, In the French kitchen with kids? Click here for info and order details! French baking. Sound too complicated to attempt? Let alone with your kids? Never fear – it’s actually much easier than you’d think to create gorgeous … Read more

Fresh orange cake from Baking Chez Moi for tuesdays with Dorie on eatlivetravelwrite.com

Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Odile’s Fresh Orange Cake

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe was just what the doctor ordered.  Last week was full of parent-teacher interviews for me and Mr Neil’s been down with the flu for over a week AND it’s tax time all of which mean things were a little glum. It’s nothing that a fresh, light orangey cake can’t … Read more