This week’s recipe for Cook the Book Fridays comes from Dorie Greenspan’s cookbook, Everyday Dorie and is one of my favourite dishes to eat – Eton Mess. As you can see from my photo, I embraced the “mess” part of the title too LOL! What is Eton Mess? According to Wikipedia, it’s “a traditional Englishdessert … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is an interesting one. A spicy meringue. Dorie says: Shichimi togarashi, also called seven-spice blend, is a culinary gift from Japan, a remarkable blend of chili pepper and spices that manages to be hot, sweet, salty, bitter, nutty and packed with umami. While the blend — … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies was a nice way to ease back into real life and my kitchen after nearly 3 weeks away! A recipe with three ingredients – what could be simpler? Dorie says: Never underestimate the pleasures of meringue. Simple to the point of plain, meringue delivers delight with … Read more
This week, for Tuesdays with Dorie I’m mixing things up. We’re supposed to be posting a recipe from Dorie’s Cookies but that recipe happens to be ANZAC biscuits (my name is in that headnote!!) and since next Tuesday happens to be ANZAC Day, I’m posting it then. So this week’s recipe is the second from … Read more
This week’s Cook the Book Fridays recipe from David Lebovitz’ My Paris Kitchen was merveilleux – gorgeous meringues sandwiched together with cream, coated in cream and rolled in chocolate. Sounds wonderful, right? I’ve actually been fortunate enough to enjoy merveilleux from Au Merveilleux de Fred several times during trips to Paris and they are, indeed, … Read more
This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe reminded me so much of some of my earlier attempts at making macarons (oh my gosh I have come so far!!) that from now on, in my classes, I’ll be telling people that if their macarons don’t turn out, they can just sandwich them together with ganache and call … Read more