Okay, so this is decadent. A layer of creamy cheesecake sandwiched between two layers of rich black chocolate cake, swathed in a salted caramel butter cream, topped with chocolate ganache and drizzled with more caramel. You are either completely repulsed by this...
Quiche is NOT one of José’s favorites. Something about the onions not being thoroughly cooked turns him off. Me? I’d pretty much eat quiche every day. We ran across a recipe for this quiche in the February 2015 issue of Bon Appetit and decided to give it a...
Kouign-amann is a magical French pastry. Somewhere between a croissant and…well…actually, nothing. Kouign-amann are best eaten about 15 minutes out of the oven but the recipe requires that you start a day early, so kouign-amann is a great breakfast treat....
Le St Honoré est une des grandes créations du 19eme siècle. (The St Honoré is one of the great creations of the 19th century.) Source We watched Haute Cuisine a couple of years ago and were taken by the scene when Mazet-Delpeuch prepares a cake for Mitterand. In the...
My memories of Carrot Cake are a dense mass of gooey brown cake with long shreds of partially cooked carrots that stuck to the roof of my mouth – and normally with pineapple thrown in for some extra-gooeyness. Definitely not good memories. But we ran across this...
