This week in Les Petits Chefs baking club, we made muffins! Primarily because last weekend I had excess blueberries and bananas at my house and wanted to use them up so some food-waste avoidance became recipe testing for this session with the students! I riffed on my easy banana chocolate chip muffin recipe and subbed … Read more
The Petits Chefs are back this week with one of my favourite recipes from In the French kitchen with kids! When I was developing the recipes for the book, I was fortunate enough to be hosting in-person cooking club in a perfect space for it and the kids spent a term testing recipes for the … Read more
Oh my, it’s been a long time since a Petits Chefs post, hasn’t it? In-person cooking club came to a halt in March 2020. We had online cooking club right up until March 2024 at my school with a brief interlude into a baking club in Term 2 last year. I didn’t manage to write … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Pecan Cranberry Loaf was one I definitely “played around” with đ Dorie calls this a sturdy loaf that travels and keeps well as well as being a candidate for toasting and serving with butter and jam. I was making this for gluten-free friends so … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Szarlotka is a kind of Polish apple pie. This website gives a nice explanation: Itâs based on a buttery shortcrust, filled with spiced shredded apple, optional custard or meringue and topped with crumble or an additional layer of pastry. Baked until golden, itâs served … Read more
(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 weekâs recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspanâs cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Brown Sugar … Read more