This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s latest cookbook, Everyday Dorie and it’s COOKIES. Chocolate Chip Cookies. Specifically, CHEWY chocolate chip cookies (my favourite kind!). Dorie says: I can’t imagine a time when I won’t be creating new chocolate chip cookies. This latest addition to my collection is chewy and […]
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Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Toasted Buckwheat and Chopped Chocolate Sablés
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a lovely cross between chocolate chip cookies and shortbread that *felt* slightly healthy because of the buckwheat flour. Dorie’s using an interesting technique of toasting the buckwheat flour gives these even more of a nuttiness than the buckwheat does on its own (hence the […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Cast-Iron Pan Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a big old chocolate chip cookie bar with some dried apricots and coconut, baked in a cast-iron pan. An interesting concept (I’ve baked cakes in cast-iron skillets before but not cookie bars) and one I was not able to minify because I didn’t have a […]
The Measure of my Powers
Today’s book review is about not judging a book by its cover. I remember the first time I read about Jackie Kai Ellis and thinking “Wow, she has such a great life!”. Founder of the successful Beaucoup Bakery and The Paris Tours, Jackie seemed to have it all – living between Vancouver and Paris, a […]
French Fridays: L’Appart by David Lebovitz
I found myself nodding in recognition as I read David Lebovitz’s latest book, L’appart: The delights and disasters of making my Paris home. I may not have bought an apartment in Paris and renovated it, but lived in Paris in tiny garret apartments for nearly five years, much like David’s first home AND I’ve bought […]
Tuesdays with Dorie (Dorie’s Cookies): Kerrin’s Multigrain Chocolate Chip Cookies
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is all sorts of good. These are the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. I don’t even bake and I NEED this recipe Just a couple of the comments about Kerrin’s Multigrain Cookies from my colleagues who finished a large plate of them well before […]
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