A few days ago, I got word of a kitchen show-and-tell thing going on in the food blog world. The even was headed up by another food blog, Lucullian Delights. Unfortunately, for me, the event ended before I could get some decent pictures of my kitchen. Here’s my late entry (better late than never, right?)… [Continue]
A friend of mine on IRC commented on the macarons I made a few weeks ago. He was saying they reminded him of a Swedish almond cookie, the biskvit. I did a little bit of research, and learned that these cookies are more commonly known as Sarah Bernhardts. These pastries were invented by a Danish [Continue]
Christmas has come and gone, my guest has left, and all that is left is the memories. Our Christmas meal was an organic rib-eye steak that I purchased from Whole Foods. It was a bit on the expensive side, but I almost never cook and eat steak, so I figured it was worth it. I [Continue]
Last night my friend Marcelo and I made orecchiette for Christmas Eve dinner. I roped Marcelo into making the pasta with me since individually crafting each piece of pasta is a bit time consuming if done alone. I made a simple pasta dough from semolina, high-gluten flour, and water; nothing else. After working the dough [Continue]
A few weeks ago I ordered a few new chocolate molds from Chocolat-Chocolat online. They seem to be of high quality, two from a French maker and one from a Chinese maker. I was itching to try them out, but did not have any couverture in the pantry. Luckily, it’s the holidays and Whole Foods [Continue]