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 […]
Les Petits Chefs make s’mores pancakes from Brunch Life with Matt Basile
Matt Basile has been one of our most popular Petits Chefs guests over the past five years since the first time he welcomed the boys into Lisa Marie and became known as “the deep fried pizza guy” 😉 So when Matt recently announced that after six very successful years, Lisa Marie would be closing so […]
eat. live. travel. write. is TEN this month (plus an announcement!)
May is a month of celebration in the eat. live. travel. write. household. First of all, it’s my birthday but it’s also the month I launched this blog – TEN YEARS AGO! Can you even believe it? On the one hand, it seems like just yesterday I was hitting publish on my very first post […]
French Fridays: Poulet Basquaise
If you’ve ever travelled in the Basque Country in Southwest France (you can read about one of our early trips to the Basque country and the Fêtes de Bayonne here) or northern Spain, you might have noticed a lot of red and green in everything from street signs to table linen. These are the Basque […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Double Chocolate Marble Cake
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a Double Chocolate Marble Cake which sounds a lot more complicated than it really was to make! This batter is similar to a pound cake, but at the last minute, you divide the batter in half and add melted white chocolate to one half […]
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