"I need a fruit salad", I thought to myself as soon as I got off the plane after an entire day of traveling. We had just come out of a six-day eating binge while visiting C's family in Montana. Wild game, hearty potatoes from the garden, goat cheese straight from the farm, and too much ...
My friends know me well.I received these as a gift a couple of days ago and today I poached them in a spice sugar syrup and served them with maple syrup and homemade yogurt panna cotta. It really put me in the holiday mood as I realized there are only two weeks left before Thanksgiving.I ...
I consider myself a neat and organized person, but once in a while, I am forced to really clean out my freezer to make room for new doughs, creams, tuile batters and ice creams... As I have said many times, when I make a tart dough for example, I make three times what I need ...
You must be thinking... "Black pepper? Did she make a mistake?". That's what I thought a few years ago when I heard that the strawberries I was eating with my vanilla ice cream had a pinch of fine ground pepper. I noticed something different, something that was making the entire dessert more potent but I ...
During one of my last trips back home, I stopped in Barcelona to visit my friend Ainara. Barcelona has a special charm, the light, the ocean, the mystic, quirky culture. Beautiful and colorful. And if you are obsessed with pastry as I am, it's full of beautiful small pastry shops. Chocolate is a big ...