Cooking
November isn't just the month to celebrate turkey and Thanksgiving, it's also the month for white truffles. Here are my top truffle posts of the week:
First SaltShaker takes us on a truffle hunt in the shops of Buenos Aires.
Then we go to the Riviera where Pim encounters the nefarious truffle don.
Next in Paris David Lebovitz tries a truffle macaron, and not the chocolate kind, really!
On another note, the selfless food blogger Sam of Becks and Posh has just posted her harrowing time with a suddenly sick Fred in Paris, I do hope you'll stop by her blog and wish her well.
- Extravagant Eggs
Eggs are basic and yet one of the harder things to cook well. My two favorite ways to eat eggs are poached or softly scrambled. I like creamy scrambled eggs, cooked low and slow, and so soft that no curds form. When it comes to poached eggs, the yolk...
- Creamy Scrambled Eggs Recipe
I'm not the first to notice the meditative state that sometimes comes about while cooking. When you are completely focused on what you are doing it's easy to get all those pesky thoughts out of your head. But there is another mental state that...
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This week a bunch of sweet posts. Sweet Napa reports from Pierre Herme in delicious detail. It's her favorite pastry shop in Paris, mai oui! There's been a flurry of activity over at Albion Cooks lately. But the post on baking with lavender...
- The Great Book Of Chocolate: Book
Chocolate the exhibition developed by The Field Museum in Chicago has arrived in San Francisco. To the California Academy of Sciences to be exact. This is a great show for kids, with bites of science, history, archeology, sociology and lore. But to be...
- So Maybe White Chocolate Doesn't Hate Me, After All
It's not the prettiest picture I've taken, nor is it the most attractive cake I've ever made. But here's the thing: It's made from white chocolate, and it's in one piece, it didn't crumble, it didn't seize. It's a...
Cooking
November isn't just the month to celebrate turkey and Thanksgiving, it's also the month for white truffles. Here are my top truffle posts of the week:
First SaltShaker takes us on a truffle hunt in the shops of Buenos Aires.
Then we go to the Riviera where Pim encounters the nefarious truffle don.
Next in Paris David Lebovitz tries a truffle macaron, and not the chocolate kind, really!
On another note, the selfless food blogger Sam of Becks and Posh has just posted her harrowing time with a suddenly sick Fred in Paris, I do hope you'll stop by her blog and wish her well.
- Extravagant Eggs
Eggs are basic and yet one of the harder things to cook well. My two favorite ways to eat eggs are poached or softly scrambled. I like creamy scrambled eggs, cooked low and slow, and so soft that no curds form. When it comes to poached eggs, the yolk...
- Creamy Scrambled Eggs Recipe
I'm not the first to notice the meditative state that sometimes comes about while cooking. When you are completely focused on what you are doing it's easy to get all those pesky thoughts out of your head. But there is another mental state that...
-
This week a bunch of sweet posts. Sweet Napa reports from Pierre Herme in delicious detail. It's her favorite pastry shop in Paris, mai oui! There's been a flurry of activity over at Albion Cooks lately. But the post on baking with lavender...
- The Great Book Of Chocolate: Book
Chocolate the exhibition developed by The Field Museum in Chicago has arrived in San Francisco. To the California Academy of Sciences to be exact. This is a great show for kids, with bites of science, history, archeology, sociology and lore. But to be...
- So Maybe White Chocolate Doesn't Hate Me, After All
It's not the prettiest picture I've taken, nor is it the most attractive cake I've ever made. But here's the thing: It's made from white chocolate, and it's in one piece, it didn't crumble, it didn't seize. It's a...