Whenever I’m tasked with planning a menu, I always look for recipes that make sense in the larger context of the meal. I want flavors that complement each other, first and foremost, but they also have to be practical to prepare and seasonally appropriate. I also try to contrast the heaviness and lightness of foods […]
Lately I’ve been in the type of baking mood where I just want to try all the new things. This week I set out for myself two tasks: make a batch of puff pastry for next week’s project and make an ice cream bombe to celebrate Bastille Day (no wonder I have no time for […]
All I really want for dessert in the summer is fruit pies and ice cream. One or the other is fine (obviously they are sublime together) but really I’d take just one and be perfectly content. If a Sunday dinner ends with either you can guarantee it will be the best meal you’ve had all […]
When I got my ice cream maker a few months ago, I knew this was going to have to be one of the first ice creams I tried. I thought throwing a bunch of mint in a vanilla ice cream base would bring me the technicolor Baskin Robbins cone of my youth and that it […]
I feel like I could write a book, or at the very least a small-but-wordy pamphlet, on how the concept behind this recipe has evolved, altered, metamorphosed, doubled back and landed straight into a heap of tiramisu. It certainly wasn’t supposed to. The idea was simple enough (it always is): I set out to twist […]
La Retro Recipe 