This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi was a super simple one that took advantage of some fresh rhubarb that a friend gave us – gorgeous, thin homegrown young rhubarb that roasted in hardly any time. I used half orange bitters and half lime bitters and added a touch of lime zest … Read more
This week, for the Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Baking Chez Moi, we made Streusel-Topped Rhubarb Lime Tart. I was home by myself last weekend and I didn’t want to make a whole tart, so of course I minified this recipe. I made half the sweet tart dough recipe and it made ten tiny tartlets … Read more
Hurrah – it’s summer! It’s rosé season (finally!), although in the South West of France, it always seems to be rosé season! I can’t wait to be there next week but in the meantime, there are a lot of items to cross off that “to do” list – administrative things for school, packing, catching up … Read more
I don’t use whole wheat flour nearly as much as I should. There, I said it. So when I received received my shipment of 1847 flours I knew immediately that I had to make it my mission to work with the “Run of the Mill”whole wheat blend. I’ve been sorting through my cookbooks recently and … Read more
Just before I left for France, my kitchen was overloaded with local strawberries and rhubarb from my organic box. I used up a fair amount making jam but still had more left over and as the weather was so hot, I was thinking a sweet syrupy cordial might be in order – to mix into … Read more
I’m a little embarrassed to say that until a few weeks ago, I never really did much canning, preserving or jam-making. I have dabbled in it a little bit but to be honest, it kind of made me nervous. All that talk about the need to sterilize jars, the special equipment, the worry about making … Read more