Happy French Friday! In a very un-Mardi-like move, I’m sharing another pumpkin recipe! Yup, hot on the heels of last week’s Pumpkin Crème Brûlée, this time I’ve got a Pumpkin Crème Caramel for you! Why, Mardi, why? Why all these pumpkin recipes? (Apart from the fact that is is the season over here…) Well you … Read more
This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen is another classic bistro dish with a twist. This week we made a flan (crème caramel) flavoured with Speculoos Spread (Cookie Butter). Now I don’t find crème caramel that challenging (it’s one of those magic dishes that looks a lot more … Read more
© Shutterstock. Used with permission. Happy Friday! It’s been a while since I’ve posted “French” on Friday and today I have a few sweet things to share that I’ve worked on on over the past little while… Canelés… Version 2.0! Some of you longer-time readers might remember I was on a canelé kick back in … Read more
I have a confession to make: I didn’t taste the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi this week. I did make it but passed it onto my (gluten-free) neighbours who looked after Cleo when I was out of town recently. Baking it forward, so to speak! This is version of the classic French … Read more
Last term some of you might have followed the Petits Chefs testing some recipes from my cookbook which was a one of the best decisions I could have made in the rather challenging recipe testing stage of writing a cookbook. Watching your exact target audience make a dish following your method was really useful for … Read more
This post is sponsored by Grace Foods. If you’ve been reading this blog for a while or if you follow me on social media, you’ll know I am writing my first cookbook. I’m currently in the (nearly) final stages of recipe testing and I can’t tell you how happy I will be to actually get … Read more