February 2011
1 post
La crème de la crème: Panna Cotta and Florentines
After many months, I am finally bringing you a new post. Sometimes life gets in the way of having fun, but this February, the shortest month of the year, I challenged myself to make time to complete the Daring Baker’s Challenge.
The February 2011 Daring Bakers’ Challenge was hosted by Mallory from A Sofa in the Kitchen. She chose to challenge everyone to make Panna...
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
Omelette Norvégienne and the beginning of a new...
Here in France, c’est la rentrée! Similar to what we call “back to school” in the United States, la rentrée literally means the return, that is the return to everyday life and sadly, the end of summer vacation. More than crisp new notebooks or the smell of a fresh box of crayons, the French see the rentrée as the start of a new year, even more so than January 1. In...
June 2010
1 post
Compost Cookies
One of the many things I’ve baked in the past few months and I am only now posting about this. It is no excuse, but I just started an incredible new job, so that is where I have been spending most of my time, perhaps more on that later, but now, back to the kitchen:
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”…something my mother always tells me and this is perhaps the most perfect cookie...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
“But after dark all that is most satisfactory in French life swims back into the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Tender is the Night, 1934
March 2010
1 post
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Tian à l'orange
et voila! finally a new post. it is another daring baker’s challenge.
The 2010 March Daring Baker’s challenge was hosted by Jennifer of Chocolate Shavings. She chose Orange Tian as the challenge for this month, a dessert based on a recipe from Alain Ducasse’s Cooking School in Paris.
The original version of this recipe can also be found in Alain Ducasse’s book of...
December 2009
1 post
November 2009
3 posts
September 2009
2 posts
August 2009
2 posts
DoBos ToRte....one crazy little cake.
This is the Daring Bakers Challenge for August. This month we were given a lovely challenge, to recreate a Dobos Torte.
The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna,...
July 2009
1 post
Le Temps des Cerises
Clafoutis Cerise
June 2009
1 post
Daring Bakers June Challenge: Bakewell Tart
Hello Summer! The June Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict and Annemarie of Ambrosia and Nectar. They chose a Traditional (UK) Bakewell Tart… er… pudding that was inspired by a rich baking history dating back to the 1800’s in England.
«Bakewell Tart History and Lore
Flan-like desserts that combine either sweet egg...
May 2009
5 posts
what's for dinner??
Asparagus. Fingerling Potato. Goat Cheese Pizza.
so easy. make this for dinner tonight! find recipe here.
Tea Party: Petit Fours
green tea cakes with white chocolate ganache
chocolate macarons with pistachio buttercream
jasmine shortbread
chocolate diamonds
you may have remembered the first diamonds i made way back in the beginning, these are much better in form (hey i did improve from my very first practical class) and flavor, so chocolaty..MMMmm
Bûche à bouche
Bûche is a French cake that it typically found around the Christmas holidays, known to english speaking peoples as a Yule Log.
This is a Mango and Raspberry Yule Log with a mango mousseline cream, dacquoise, a raspberry crémeux filling and the outside is covered in a sort of crumble.
by the by..this is just a series of photos that i never posted from the pastries i made at school…(yes the schooling that ended in march, so a little late on posting these.)
April 2009
3 posts
Daring Bakers April Challenge: Cheesecake
The April 2009 challenge is hosted by Jenny from Jenny Bakes. She has chosen Abbey’s Infamous Cheesecake as the challenge.
This month’s challenge left the daring bakers with a lot of liberty. Jenny provided the recipe for her friend Abbey’s Infamous cheesecake (which is found further along in this post), which is a basic cheesecake recipe and left the flavoring and decor up...
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
– Henry Fielding, Love in Several Masques, 1743
“Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered...”
– Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
March 2009
1 post
Daring Bakers March Challenge: Lasagne of...
The March 2009 challenge is hosted by Mary of Beans and Caviar, Melinda of Melbourne Larder and Enza of Io Da Grande. They have chosen Lasagne of Emilia-Romagna from The Splendid Table by Lynne Rossetto Kasper as the challenge.
This month’s challenge included making your own spinach egg pasta for the lasagna, as well as, making a country ragù and a creamy béchamel sauce. The task at hand...
February 2009
2 posts
For the LOVE of CHOCOLATE: the February Daring...
Back for another completed challenge!
The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE’s blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef. (Wendy at wmpesblog (Arizona) and Dharm at Dad - Baker and Chef (Malaysia).)
We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.
This month I was so...
Baba au vieux rhum
{Allow me to preface this by apologizing for not really posting anything in 2009, I have been having some problems posting photos and sizing, etc (I am not a computer whiz), but now everything seems to be working just fine. I will just have to get posting to catch you up to all the pastries we have made so far in pastry class!}
This was our first practical of 2009: Baba au Rhum
Here is the baba...
January 2009
4 posts
January Challenge: Tuiles
This month for the Daring Bakers challenge, the hosts, Karen aka Baking Soda at Bake My Day! (from the Netherlands) and Zorra aka Kochtopf at 1x umrühren bitte decided to lighten things up with a selection of tuile recipes from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux, allowing everyone to use a little creativity to come up with their dish...
Inviting the world to dinner... →
A true and incredible story of how the simple act of sharing a meal can be so much more.
Bonne Année!
Yes, I realize that this post is a little late, but here’s to 2009, may it be a year paved with lots of sweet surprises!
November 2008
5 posts
November Challenge: Caramel Cake
This month’s daring baker challenge was to make this delicious caramel cake with caramelized butter frosting. November’s challenge was hosted by Dolores (http://culinarycuriosity.blogspot.com/) Alex (Brownie of the Blondie and Brownie duo: http://blondieandbrownie.blogspot.com/), Jenny of Foray into Food (http://forayintofood.blogspot.com/), with the gluten-free help of Natalie of...
boredom
October 2008
16 posts
Daring Bakers October Challenge: Tossing Your Own...
I recently joined this awesome internet group of baking bloggers! How perfect!! Every month they have a challenge that everyone must complete and post on their blogs with pictures and descriptions. This was my first challenge and we had to make pizza crust following the same recipe that required tossing the dough in the air to shape it. That was not easy as you can see in the following...
Daring Bakers Blog Roll →
check out this month’s challenge on all the daring baker blogs!
why oh why do i love paris...
oh la vie parisienne!
My apologies for posting so few pictures these last couple weeks. In order to make up for it, I have decided to start posting more photos of everyday things in Paris or life wherever that may be, in addition to my regular “look what I made in school today” pics.
