by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Feb 18, 2015 | Cakes
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...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Oct 4, 2014 | Cakes
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...
by Chief Cook and Bottle Washer | Sep 29, 2014 | Treat
Black cocoa powder – who knew? We recently saw a recipe in Food & Wine (May 2014) for these cookies. We probably would have skipped right over it except for a strange ingredient: black cocoa powder. We’re always up to track down an esoteric ingredient...
