Whaaat the eff? What’s going on with this most ridiculous recipe title on the planet? is what you’re thinking right now. But it works! I need to give you a bit of context. In France, I think I mentioned it before, we have this typical appetizer which involves canned tuna, cream cheese, and that’s pretty […]
Told you I had another savory shortbread recipe in the works. Of course since I was abroad last week and apparently when I’m on vacation I go dumb, I forgot to schedule this post, even though I left feeling pretty confident everything was in order. So you’re getting this this week instead! No hard feelings. […]
I’d been dying to make savory shortbread for months, but as life often goes, I ended up stalling, and then making my grand entry into the savory shortbread world with a homemade recipe. Somehow, last weekend, it just felt right. I still have gorgonzola shortbread in the back of my head (it’s been stuck there […]
These were originally called pumpkin cheddar muffins, but I live in Paris (news flash) and I didn’t have the heart to run to the nearest British grocery store to get extra sharp cheddar. I’m still amazed at how hard it is to find certain staple ingredients of foreign cooking in a city such as Paris. […]
Let’s do a gluten-free week, shall we? Just for the heck of it. To see that gluten-free doesn’t mean restrictive and boring, for instance. I don’t follow a gluten-free diet, but I always feel better when the food that I cook happens to be gluten-free, don’t you? It might be silly, I don’t know. Seeing […]
If you’re like me, you love crab cakes, but you never make them at home, because the price of a small can of crab at the store drives you nuts. So you settle for the good old diner crab cake now and then. Except when you live in Paris. Then, it proves slightly harder to […]
Are you familiar with the prune and cured ham combination? In France it seemed to be very trendy a few years ago. My (then quite young) friends used to serve bake bacon-wrapped prunes as appetizers, and we felt like we were such cooks. It was fancy as hell to think of prunes as an appetizer. […]
There you go, my first batch of empanadas with the brand new version of empanada dough I’m so glad I tried. That’s what I’ve been learning with cooking you know, you should never settle for what’s good – you can always get to great. And this dough is just great. Forget about leave well alone […]
It’s been a long, long week. I’m not even sure by the time this gets posted, I will still be standing. Yes, I have a penchant for drama, but I also have very low tolerance to fatigue. Which basically makes me a walking 2-year old, who needs to accomplish the daily tasks of a 20-something. […]
These are actually “cakes” the way crab cakes or corn cakes are cakes, not the other way. You know? I can see why it would be confusing, given all the pumpkin cake recipes out there. However I realized recently why I had so much trouble finding a pumpkin recipe that I really wanted to make: […]
