Menu du jour pastry ingredients : 8 Recipes


  • Recipe Acid:  The Barbara Hershey of Ingredients
    Acid: The Barbara Hershey of Ingredients
    Citrus, today is your day So I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. A beautiful face without a name — for so long, a beautiful smile to hide the pain.– Bette Midler I’m[...]
  • Recipe want the recipe for martha's meyer lemon pastry?
    want the recipe for martha's meyer lemon pastry?
    photo by mara alderman ok...if you subscribe to martha stewart living you already have this recipe...but if not, keep reading.  (actually, please keep reading either way!).  i rarely follow recipes exactly...always feel the[...]
  • Recipe Raisin Hell
    Raisin Hell
    Meet one of the most polarizing dried fruits in the History of the World. Personally, I am a fan of the raisin.  I kinda dig their wrinkly little skins.  I love their sweet chewiness.  I enjoy biting into one in the middle of a big old[...]
  • Recipe Dymystifying Mona
    Dymystifying Mona
    We have ways of making you talk, Mona. Thanks to Niko from Damn Cute Bunnies (I love that) for sending in her particular Mona Lisa, Double Chocolate Layer Cake .  Apparently, some have claimed it to be the Best Cake in the Hinternet. [...]
  • Recipe A Paean to Chocolate
    A Paean to Chocolate
    Chocolate to make the heart burst with joy. Today is The Beloved’s birthday.  So first, The Birthday Poem: Today is a birthday; I wonder for whom? I think it’s for someone right here in this room! So look aaaalllll around[...]
  • Recipe Water:  The Unsung Superhero
    Water: The Unsung Superhero
    Water: arguably the most useful ingredient in the kitchen Okay, so yesterday, Emma Christensen from over at The Kitchn wrote a piece about my rant on the Tyranny of the Recipe .  She told folks to come over here and see what I was[...]
  • Recipe In Honor of Butterpowered Bike?Rending Lard, Of Course!
    In Honor of Butterpowered Bike?Rending Lard, Of Course!
    Creamy white and easy rendered lard in a crockpot! Please stop by my latest giveaway and enter to win a $75 Novica Gift Certificate good towards the purchase of free trade international artisan gifts and home goods![...]
  • Recipe Look To The Cookie! Chocolate Loves Vanilla: An Essay in Two Parts
    Look To The Cookie! Chocolate Loves Vanilla: An Essay in Two Parts
    Let me say right now, if you don’t care about the mystical relationship between chocolate and vanilla, just run along.  I am well aware that I can get a wee bit obsessive about some topics, so if you’re not up for this, I[...]



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