Hello and Happy French Friday! Today I’m bringing you a riff on a favourite pastry, inspired by Dorie Greenspan’s latest project – Playing Around! Yes, that’s right – as well as being a bestselling cookbook author, Dorie’s recently launched a newsletter and just the other week launched an invitation to bake together with a community … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie and is one I was interested in trying out – cinnamon puffs are basically chouquettes with a hint of cinnamon. Chouquettes are empty cream puffs sprinkled in pearl sugar (< affiliate link to the closest product I could find to the one … Read more
Happy (nearly) Easter! Today’s recipe is a happy accident, inspired by one of my cooking club member’s sisters who cooks along with her brother some weeks (one silver lining of the pandemic is that I get to cook and bake with not just my students but also their families, as they are at home for … Read more
Those of us who cooked our way through Dorie Greenspan’s Around my French Table made a version of this week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen way back in 2011. Gnocchi à la Parisienne is basically choux pastry, lightly poached in simmering water, then baked in béchamel sauce. Um, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi is a version of a cream puff/ profiterole that has become quite popular in Paris over the past few years. Little balls of choux pastry topped with a “craquelin” topping (like a sweet shortcrust dough or, in this case, a brown sugar butter cookie dough) … Read more
This week I was invited to my school’s holiday market cocktail party to sell and sign copies of In the French kitchen with kids so, of course, I put the Petits Chefs to work making some snacks for everyone to enjoy (and sent some home for the boys as well!). I chose something I knew … Read more