Making the honey lavender ice cream, I’ve found out the remarkable flavor affinity between honey and lavender. This is not a flavor pairing I’ve put together…
Berry/ breakfast/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday
Crumb-Topped Ricotta Coffee Cake | Baking with Dorie
Dorie compares the crumb-topped ricotta coffee cake to fond memories she has of a store-bought cake just like it. I can’t really relate to that since…
Berry/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ my favorites/ quick cake
Cornmeal-Buttermilk Loaf Cake with Berries | Everyday Dorie
The cornmeal-buttermilk loaf cake with berries and the cornmeal skillet cake share the same recipe, except they are baked in different pans. I first baked the…
Bake/ Berry/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ easy everyday/ spring/ summer
Strawberry & Rhubarb Tart | Everyday Dorie
“They grow together, ripen at about the same time,” Dorie refers to rhubarb and strawberries in Everyday Dorie. When you see the giant stalks of rhubarb…
Dorie baked the blueberry-cherry pie for her husband and son on Father’s Day 2020 because this is a pie that’d make both of them happy. So…
Give me a mochaccino muffin with the morning java. That’d surely make my day; it will also lighten my heart and waken my senses. What…
dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ featured/ foundation recipe/ French/ Gluten free/ Nut
Parisian Macarons | Dorie Greenspan
Parisian macarons were the first cookie I learnt to bake. I mean, before then, I’ve not baked much of anything. It sounds so incredulous that I…
Dorie Greenspan/ mezze (small plates)/ Pantry essentials/ Side/ Toss
Black Bean Chipotle Dip | Everyday Dorie
With a can of black bean, a few other ingredients and a food processor, you’d get the black bean chipotle dip in just a matter of…
Bake/ breakfast/ brunch/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites/ puff pastry/ spring
Asparagus-Lemon Quiche | Baking with Dorie
Spring 2022 is such a contrast in mood and activities as compared to that of the last two years. The changes can’t be more dramatic!…
mezze (small plates)/ spring/ Toss/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Yogurty Butter Beans with Pistachio | Yotam Ottolenghi
This is the kind of mezze that welcomes spring when the days are getting longer and our appetite is getting lighter. Grab a can of…
For some reasons, there is no lemon tart on my blog before this one. That surprises me. In retrospect, it is not the result from a…
Making meringue is the direction I go from time to time whenever there are excess egg whites around — or not. There are many ways to…
The Japanese soufflé pancakes are the novelty pancakes people would patiently wait in line for in the East Village. Their claim to fame is the fluffy…
The Bakewell tart is a British classic. It combines a buttery shortcrust pastry, a filling of raspberry jam, almond sponge cake (or frangipane in some versions),…
Boozy jumbled-fruit croustade in Everyday Dorie can take different types of dough. Among them, the phyllo dough is Dorie’s choice, but my least favorite. The last…
Chocolate/ dessert/ Dorie Greenspan/ my favorites
Mokonuts’ Rye-Cranberry Chocolate Chunk Cookies | Baking with Dorie
I’ve been busy making and eating these cookie, and somehow, it escapes me to tell our readers all about them. Dorie says: To describe the…
Coeur a la creme is a lustrous cream-based dessert molded to the shape of a heart. Putting the two elements together on Valentine’s Day makes my…
Mindful eating starts early in the morning with breakfast. A foundational element for me is a homemade vegetarian yogurt, which is far easier to produce than…
There are food you may be less inclined to make at home. Bagels fall in that category. The pandemic does many things. It upends our…
A warm breakfast on a cold wintery morning gives me a shot of energy I need to jumpstart the day. A plain Dutch baby recipe from…
breakfast/ classics/ foundation recipe/ scalable
Buttermilk Scones with Green Onions | Mindful Eating
Start the day with a great breakfast. And start the year with the casual scones. Besides breakfast, what about scones for tea? The idea of…
I get ambitious with my baking during the holidays and special occasions. I make Dominique Ansel’s champagne macarons. In full disclosure, they come with a warning…
The raspberry shortbread hearts look cute. They surely belong to a bag of holidays goodies — for giving, cookie exchanges or the kitchen table. I had…
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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking with Dorie
After 30 years of publishing and 14 cookbooks later, Dorie Greenspan’s new book Baking with Dorie wins instant acclaim from believers like me. When I look…
Bake/ brunch/ cheese/ my favorites/ one-pan/ Side/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Five-Spice Butternut Squash in Cheesy Custard
The idea of a one-pan butternut squash cheesy custard that I can serve for a festive brunch during the holidays is golden. More than any other…