A New Year means Big Dreams for my blog! And more importantly, lots of delicious things! I’ve got some pea soup simmering on the stove right now, and dreams of faro and quinoa dance in my head. I was watching a cooking show last night and now I’m all about the ancient grains! (For about…
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French-Style Chocolate Chip Cookies and the Squish Factor
This week, my bake-a-long group is making Edouard’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, aka French-style chocolate chip cookies, from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. What are French-style chocolate chip cookies, you ask? Apparently, ones where some of the flour is subbed out for hazelnut or almond flour. But…I used up the last of my almond flour weeks ago, and…
Enter the Unexpected: Life, Health, and Chocolate Cake
I’ve missed a few posts lately for my online bake-a-long group. Why? Life, really. A change of weather brought a never-ending headache with it, and when that finally went away (after a week!), my insomnia went rampant and left me completely sleepless for a night. After 36 hours without a wink of sleep during the…
BCM: Hot Chocolate Panna Cotta, Vegetarian Edition
This week my bake-a-long group is making Hot Chocolate Panna Cotta, from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. I’ve made Panna Cotta before, both from Dorie’s book, as well as my own creation, and both times the recipes called for gelatin as an ingredient. Being vegetarian, gelatin is a no-no, and since the DH doesn’t…
Chocolate Lava Cakes and The Importance of Mathematics
This month my bake-a-long group is making Soft-Centred Chocolate Teacup Cakes (aka Chocolate Lava Cakes) as well as Hot Chocolate Pannacotta from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking Chez Moi cookbook. We’ll be making one item this week, and one item two weeks from now. I decided to make the Lava Cakes today, as I had made…