- Thin, crispy and buttery, Flo Braker’s Pain d’Amande Cookies are simple, yet delicious. She generously shared the recipe with David Lebovitz, along with some great commentary on how the final version of the recipe was developed. The cookies specifically call for using a large crystal sugar, like raw sugar …
Ice Cream and Cupcake Cookie Cutters
I found both of these cute Ice Cream Cone and Cupcake cookie cutter sets at Crate and Barrel just a few weeks ago, and was all set to write them up when I realized that they’re not on the store’s website! They’re probably just seasonal items with limited availability, and I’m not …
44th Pillsbury Bake-Off deadline coming up
The 44th Pillsbury Bake-Off began accepting entries a few months ago, and now the deadline for the famous contest is fast approaching. You only have one week to iron out the kinks in your recipes (or come up with new ones!) because entries close on Monday, April 20th. Don’t stress …
Levo Adjustable Cookbook Stand
It’s really nice to have a cookbook holder of some kind in the kitchen for several reasons. First, it keeps your cookbooks a little cleaner by keeping them off the counter. Second, it makes them easier to read by holding the pages open. What most cookbook holders don’t do is hold the book up …
Lemon Coconut Bread
One of my favorite quickbread recipes is the Coconut Bread from bills, Bill Granger‘s restaurant in Sydney, Australia. It’s one of those recipes that works so well as-is that I am never really tempted to stray from making the recipe just as it is written. So, when …
The Cornbread Gospels
Cornbread is one of those foods that people seem to develop strangely strong feelings about. Not that there’s anything wrong with preferring one type of cornbread over another, but I’m been to a barbecue or two where the argument over whether cake-like cornbread or skillet cornbread was better got even hotter than the grill …
Le Whif delivers chocolate without calories
Do you remember the scene in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Willy Wonka introduces some three-course-meal gum, which gives the chewer the flavor experience of eating a full meal without any of the actual food (or the calories)? It seems that science has come up with a Wonka-like …
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter everyone! And if you’re not celebrating the holiday, I certainly hope that you still took the time to enjoy the morning. I was lucky enough to end up with some lovely, warm spring weather for brunch! I already mentioned a lot of brunch items I was planning on serving …
