Recipes
This was the cry from the wonderful Lisa and Ivonne, and so how could I not hearken to their call? They had planned a wonderful outdoor feast and forgotten the food! With the call for help put out to the blogging world, I began to eagerly flip through my cookbooks, looking for a nice, simple [...]
“What’s that smell?”
I looked up to see my sister walking through the door as I was just frying up some sliced and marinated beef to go with the baby bok choy that I’d steamed earlier. “Oh, hey! I got in a bit late so I’m just making myself some dinner. Have you eaten?”
“Yeah, Jay’s mom [...]
France has many petit-fours, cookies and cakes which originate from the region as well as surrounding provinces, and the palets bretons is one of these. Hailing from Brittany (a province to the NW of France, and which gives the cookie the ‘breton’ part of it’s name), it is a delicate butter cookie which seems barely [...]
I’ve never actually seen, or even tasted a macaroon, but after reading post after post about these beautiful delicacies by many food bloggers I held them in the highest regard as one of the most delightful yet difficult petit fours in the dessert world. Because of the the difficulty rating that everyone seemed to give [...]
After reading Jen’s post about making chocolate-filled sable biscuits, I decided to give them a try myself as I’m also quite a fan of Shannon Bennett’s book “My Vue”. Similar to a shortbread biscuit, these sable biscuits have an almost ’sandy’ texture upon the first bite, but very quickly dissolve into nothing but a sweet [...]
