1, 2, 3, 4 - cheeses white pizza to wrap up part 4 of the ‘pizza series’. I’m not gonna lie to you, an all-white cheesy pizza is good, but a reddish tomato-sauce all-dressed pizza with all the toppings is better, but this is a nice & easy & quick recipe option and thus ‘deserving’ of being...
YUP, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO HAVE A LONG & INTELLIGENT TALK in order to understand and to demystify "foolproof" thin crust pizza dough ingredients and techniques (once and for all) … pffffffff ! Some equations and calculations will also be necessary … but WHY ? Because when you use only 6 BASIC...
“FILO” isn’t just for making GREEK STUFF you know (or Turkish or Armenian or Lebanese stuff for that matter) ! And I think it was also time that I publish some very quick & easy recipes after all my complicated and/or time-consuming recipes, that may scare some of you or perhaps just make you roll your eyes back at me,...
"A cube of glistening darkness . . . topped by a golden square of pale caramel & crowned with a walnut kernel . . ." yeah … whatever ! I made these little numbers by modifying and transforming my chococolate-covered clementine almond cakes recipe (see recipe here) by using home-ground walnut powder,...
A 'POTEE' is a huge french-style winter brothy stew usually made with a whole green cabbage, potatoes, carrots, turnips, some onions and various pork meats and many variations of this dish exist throughout France. It’s also usually a quite large dish because a cabbage is a big thing and you have to slice it up into at least 8...
MAYBE you’ll understand and MAYBE YOU WON'T ?! I’m obsessed with the pizza of my childhood, my teenage years and my younger to older adult life . . . It’s all memory-related. Ordering an XL PIZZA from our favorite neighborhood pizzeria was always a moment of joy and homey comfort. To this day, the first thing that my...
“ I TOLD YOU SO ! ” . . . but who listens to me ? About 6 months ago, if you remember well, I told you all to freeze some berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, currants, etc.) because summer is still far away but spring is here with its share of holidays and preparations. Okay, don’t worry, this...
«BREAD is LOVE» & «LOVE takes TIME» . . . remember this !* *(especially if you decide to watch my 15-minute step-by-step video, but you can speed up to 10X to 1½ minutes, if you must, pffffffffffffff) ... REAL-TIME REQUIREMENTS : 2 minutes to weigh and measure the ingredients 2 minutes to...
Get yourself a KITCHEN SCALE (digital and precise if possible please) ! A PASTA-MAKING MACHINE would also be lovely, but I must admit that I broke my cheap model after using it twice and finally ended up using a ROLLING-PIN and ELBOW GREASE (everything is possible, especially ‘old school’ methods) … Making RAVIOLI...
HAPPY "VALENTINE’S DAY" to my MAMA and my PAPA (and a very happy birthday to my mama this week too and who still looks fabulous) ! In your lifetime, you will end up with several “valentine’s day” candidates (I remember that as a kid in elementary school, we would all make hand-made cards in class and give...
Yup, me again … just about anything can be an ‘okay & acceptable tomato pizza sauce’ … even some crushed tomatoes with some salt and olive oil and maybe some pepper because simple is really nice too. But how great can that pizza ‘sauce’ be (and I say ‘sauce’ as opposed to a crushed tomato...
BLANCHED ALMONDS - GROUND ALMONDS - ALMOND POWDER - FLAKED or SLIVERED ALMONDS . . . ? You can do this all yourself you know, starting off with plain regular almonds but anyways, it’s just a thought ! I’ve never made these before, but these babies are one of my favorite greek pastry and bakery items....
*hi ! ... begin by watching the 30 second video-clip (after the 7 photos) and then i'll expalin everything ... :) I go to this rather fancy and British up-scale supermarket for certain cooking ingredients every 2-3 weeks, to get stuff I can’t find in the Parisian supermarkets (cottage cheese, cheddar, stilton, etc.). I noticed that...
“This is like when someone tells you how to make fries : you obviously know (or think you know) how to but there may be a better ‘trick’ or ‘way of doing it' out there . . .” Angel makes these slowly-sautéed vegetables often (okay it's kind of in-between sauteed and simmered actually) and...
. . . let me explain : the original name of this working-class (or actually for people not working at all) winter dessert from Quebec during the Great Depression and the Wall Street Crash of 1929 is 'POUDING-CHOMEUR' which can be left as is or literally translated into ‘poor man’s pudding’ or ‘pudding for...