This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies might just be the recipe to change my mind about ginger in baked goods. I’m not a huge fan of it (though I love it in savoury items and juices etc…) so wondered what I would think about a recipe that included both crystallized ginger and … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies made my house smell amazing and very “holiday”-like on the first weekend in December! These ginger cookies include fresh ginger in the cookie dough (Dorie’s “do-almost-anything vanilla cookie dough“) and powdered ginger in the crumble topping for a double hit of warmth. I always have trouble … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is a savoury bite, named for a cocktail at Booker and Dax, a cocktail bar in New York. Dorie says: When my friend Rebekah ordered the Bee’s Sneeze, I looked at the ingredient list, took a sip and immediately wanted to turn it into a cookie. … Read more
This post is sponsored by Thai Kitchen. If you were to come into our kitchen and take a peek at our pantry shelves, you’d see a living photo album chronicling our travels. Wherever we go, we try to pick up local ingredients (spices, mostly) so we can try to recreate some of the dishes we … Read more
Vanessa Yeung has come in to work with my Petits Chefs EIGHT times now! She’s one of the most popular guest chefs in my Petits Chefs program (although if you ask the boys they would have a very hard time choosing – each week they revise their opinion about which session was “the best”!) and … Read more
I love apples but teeth I need to be careful of due to a recent root canal and an upcoming crown have prevented me from enjoying a fresh apple for many more months that I care to think about. So this week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe (Long and Slow Apples, p 390) was a … Read more