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…
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Rose Frasier & the Case of the Missing Garnish
I’ll start at the end of the story: It was delicious. I regret nothing. But perhaps I should start at the beginning? It was a dark and stormy night (ok, it was just dark and night, no storms to be seen) and I was cooking up a storm in my cozy kitchen. Minestrone soup was bubbling on…
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…
Memories of Meals Past: Quesitos, A Pastry By Any Other Name
Things that go together: doughnuts and coffee, sugar and spice, cheese and crackers, me and anything chocolate, and…cooking and drag queens?!??? Apparently so! The other day I came across a funny youtube video when I was surfing the net for cooking videos. The title of the series is “Cooking with Drag Queens“, and it is,…
Jammer Galette, Plus Where I Was When I Wasn’t Blogging
And…I’m baaaaaack! Did you miss me? There was radio silence (internet silence?) in my little part of the blogosphere for the past three weeks. Why? I was on vacation in South America! That’s right, I was soaking up the sun in sunny S.A.! The DH and I went to visit family in Venezuela and stopped…