desserts recipes
Once upon a time (a few days ago), a few fresh PLUMS (the ones that turn into dried prunes later on) decided to have some fun and live it up before they lost their ‘freshness’ and dried up. They wanted to go on “dates” before their time would come. It just so happened that a few fresh DATES (the ones that turn into sweet...
“AS PURE AS THE SNOW-CAPPED PEAKS OF MOUNT OLYMPUS” . . . I’m half-Olympian from my mother’s side. Not an Olympian like a citizen of the city of Olympia in the Peloponnese region of Greece, where the Olympic Games first took place. Nor Olympian like the athletes in the Olympic Games. But rather a half-Olympian (in the...
"EVERYTHING WORTHWHILE TAKES TIME" . . . even something with only 2 main ingredients and a few EXTRAS to make it SPECIAL … like when you make EGGS ! I REALLY BELIEVE that STRAWBERRIES that you just let SIT in a MIXTURE of SUGAR & CITRUS JUICE can indeed make life easier & better-tasting and gives you free...
What can you do with the rest of your chocolate easter eggs (if they’re candy-coated) or extra m&m’s (if you have some lying around) and egg whites (if you have some of those too, as I always do) ? Well, you can make COLORFUL & SPECKLED CHOCOLATE EGG MERINGUES that look like SEAGULL EGGS !!! The idea came to me...
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR !!! (which is tomorrow on February 8 and celebrated for 1 week) … and here are my traditional Chinese new year peanut cookies, but with a Canadian touch, a chocolate-covered candied-cherry heart, in the middle … WHY, you ask ? I’m not Chinese as you know, but several of my Canadian friends...
The BIG RETURN … By now, you’ve already accepted it or have been forced to accept it because you no longer have the choice. Back to school for the younger ones (kindergarten, elementary, high school, university) and back to work for us older ones (office work, house work or taking care of your crazy family) . ....
One week ago today, marked the passing of my dear friends’ father. His initials are "P.K." (of course I called him “uncle” because that’s what Greek kids call their Greek friends’ fathers, blood-ties or not). I’d like to express my sincerest condolences to the family for their deep loss...
2’s & ½’s . . . 2 cups, ½ cup, 2 tbsp, ½ tbsp, 2 tsp, ½ tsp . . . do you get it now ?! Don’t ask me why I got stuck on the numbers 2 and ½ in the measurements but this is what happens when you feel like making a “yeasted” cake instead of using baking powder or...
SHOW-OFF your LOVE, BUILD a "SPECIAL" DESSERT for VALENTINE’S DAY ! This apple-based Valentine’s Day dessert idea is actually a combination and reinterpretation of a few of my latest January and February recipes. One recipe or technique simply led to another … I had dear friends from France and Canada who were...
“Can’t you just make up a recipe with only 5 ingredients, that even I can make ?” … says (a friend & neighbor) Frank, to me last night as we were leaving an exhibition in Paris, of my friend Isabelle Stell’s beautiful & whimsical drawings (check it out, she has a website of her collection of drawings...
SEPTEMBER isn’t all that BAD ! One week ago, I sincerely thought I was going to write up a kicking-and-screaming back to work September article. I changed my mind . . . It only seems painful in that way, not because everybody’s getting back to work or school or both and vacationing is over but because the weather changes. No...
BACK in response to POPULAR DEMAND … the less dense, less messy, lighter, neater and easier version of the CHERRY CLAFOUTIS ! Hundreds of you loved/liked this recipe I recently published on the social networks and many of you made it and sent me photos of your results (which I loved) so here’s a more precise and detailed...
6 EGGS = 6 EGG YOLKS + 6 EGG WHITES = 6 PUDDINGS + 24 MERINGUES ! I recently showed you what to do with your leftover chocolate easter eggs by making large colorful meringues with them. Now I’m showing you how to make 2 easy desserts, but not using leftovers this time or to put it simply, by not having any leftover egg yolks nor egg...
APPLES AGAIN ?! Yes … but with walnuts this time and puff pastry … be BRAVE, another LAST apple dessert recipe this weekend and then nothing until next autumn or winter ! What else was I supposed to do ? I still had a jar of my apple compote in the refrigerator. I still had puff pastry that I had frozen and many, many,...
Stephanie & Caroline – better known as the "TATIN SISTERS" never had a mold like this to make elongated, easier-to-make and easier-to-serve upside down apple pie or “taaaaarte tatiiiiiiin” ! This interesting dessert which is now a classic, was invented accidentally around the end...