Category: Dorie Greenspan
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Marie-Helene’s apple cake
It’s been nearly a year since I made this cake for my father’s birthday and I’ll admit part of the reason why I haven’t written about it until now is because I’m disappointed in the photo. But this cake was so simply delicious I’d be remiss in my duty to my blog readers if…
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Dorie Greenspan’s Tiger tea cakes
Hello readers, it’s been a while. Longer than I realized, in fact, and part of the reason for that is that I’m on a serious diet. After several months of illness, and being stuck at the same weight for more than a year, I decided to do something to lose the rest of my baby…
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Poilane’s Punitions or Punishment Cookies
Punitions means “punishments” in English. I’m in a sour mood today, it’s raining and it’s grey. And I had the day off from work but sure enough my son woke up sick and lethargic. Now that he’s asleep, I decided it’s time to blog about my experience making these small buttery French cookies a…
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Dorie Greenspan’s coffee eclairs
I never really liked eclairs until recently, when I discovered coffee eclairs (aka eclairs au cafe) at my local tea shop. They were a revelation. Until then, I always equated eclairs with those whipped cream-filled spongy concoctions you can find slowly drying out behind your nearest donut shop counter. You know the type. You…
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Cookbook Review: Around My French Table
I’m going to cut to the chase here. Dorie Greenspan’s “Around My French Table” is my favourite new cookbook. In fact, with just a couple of months to go until the end of the year, I am going to be so bold as to say this is potentially the best cookbook of 2010. I first came across…
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Dorie Greenspan’s Nutella Tartine
Where a North American after-school snack might be a glass of milk and cookies, the French goûter is often a pain au chocolat. Sometimes, Dorie Greenspan says in her new cookbook “Around My French Table” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) it might even be an open-faced chocolate sandwich. This may seem ridiculous to Canadians, and Americans, but…