Les Petits Chefs baking club made a favourite bake last week – Blueberry Galettes! I love galettes because they are MEANT to be rustic so there’s no worry about the pastry needing to be perfect. Weird shape? It’s meant to be like that! Hole in the pastry Patch it up – noone will notice! I … Read more
Today would have been my mum’s 82nd birthday. Sadly, this is the first birthday she’s not with us to celebrate and I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a hard day for us all. Mum was the baker, the cook in the family and she relished this role. It wasn’t a chore to cook … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Alsatian-Style Blueberry Tart is a relatively simple dessert that is SO good – homemade pastry really does make a huge difference here. This tart has a sweet shortcrust pastry that’s partially baked, then filled with blueberries on a base of ground almonds (to absorb … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe comes from Baking with Dorie. Lemony-yogurt muffins was on the docket this week and though I fully planned on following the recipe to a T, my fridge contents had other ideas and I ended up with muffins made with yummy local strawberry yoghurt and blueberries – not much taste … Read more
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
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie. Mixed Berry Pie was the perfect multi-day recipe for this not-quite-back-to-normal-recovering-from-major-surgery baker. I made the pie pastry one day and assembled it the next – and it was a great way to take advantage of VERY local berries: Backyard blackberries … Read more