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Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Chocolate Chestnut Tart with Vanilla Chestnut Syrup

Baking Chez Moi, chocolate, cookbooks, dessert, Dorie Greenspan, Tuesdays with Dorie | December 22, 2015December 22, 2015 by Mardi Michels

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is one that works well with the festive season and is the sort of sweet treat you might expect to find in a beautiful French pâtisserie. Chestnuts always say “Christmas” to me and here, they are nestled in a rich chocolate ganache encased in a sweet, short pastry crust. … Read more

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French Fridays with Dorie: chestnut-pear soup

cookbooks, Dorie Greenspan, FFWDorie, soup | August 1, 2015November 15, 2013 by Mardi Michels

Chestnuts and pears in a soup – what a wonderfully seasonal combination for this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (p 82). Not a combination I’d have thought of myself living in Toronto, it’s perhaps one that might have come to mind in Paris at Christmas where there are chestnut sellers all around the city … Read more