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  • Susan’s Spungen’s Chocolate Semifreddo with Candied Salted Almonds

    Good morning! Have I ever told you about the time I interviewed to work in the test kitchen at Martha Stewart Living, back in the fall/winter of 2000/2001? I had recently left Paris behind me and was hoping to get a job in publishing in New York. My sights were set on book publishing, but I…

  • Emma Laperruque’s Nutella Buckwheat Brownies

    I have been feeling a little…fragile as of late. For example, this obituary made me cry. This book that I finished last night left me with the most sickening case of existential dread. I went into the boys' room this morning for a morning snuggle, but one boy was happily reading in his top bunk…

  • People’s Pops’ Strawberries & Cream Popsicles

    Confession time: I have no less than SIX posts in the pipeline on this here olde time bloggue. Six! There is chili and muesli and cauliflower salad and eggplant parm and a million amazing new cookbooks to tell you about, but somehow the time, the time!, is never enough. So let's start small, shall we,…

  • Diana Henry’s Roast Apple and Maple Eton Mess

    Reader! How are you? How’s the weather where you are? Here in Berlin, spring has sprung. The breezes are warm, the trees are blooming (the creamy magnolias are already on their way out, in fact, sob, but the frothy cherry blossoms are still in full glory), the markets are stuffed with fragrant strawberries and fat…

  • Gerhard Jenne’s Bittersweet Brownies with Cranberries

    Drowning as I am in cakes and cookies and sweet breads, I have absolutely no business – none! – making brownies on my day off. But I couldn't help it! I'm sorry! It's just that I was looking through a book that a British publisher sent to me last year (written by a German baker…

  • Ashley Rodriguez’s Bittersweet Brownies with Salted Peanut Butter Frosting

    According to the internet, the East Coast of the US is about to be swathed in an apocalyptic amount of snow. Meanwhile, over here, it's just miserably gray, as it always always always is this time of year. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun. Hugo, who is really into SAAHN! and…

  • Yotam Ottolenghi’s Raspberry Meringue Roulade

    I realize this is verrrry last-minute, but perhaps there are a few among you who have not yet decided on your Christmas dessert or who are still planning your New Year's Eve dinner or just plain want to have your socks knocked off by a dessert. Yes? Yes? Getting right down to brass tacks, because…

  • Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert

    My favorite kind of pancakes are buckwheat pancakes; my dad used to make them for us when I was little and I've loved their haunting, stoney flavor ever since. I introduced Max to them several years ago. He fell instantly and madly in love, and of course Hugo likes them, too, but my suspicion is…

  • How to Roast Strawberries

    Fact #1: Strawberries are at the top of my list of favorite summer fruits. Fact #2: Strawberry jam is at the bottom of my list of least favorite jams. Fact #3: My favorite strawberry-monger was selling half-pound baskets of Saturday's strawberries yesterday, at the rock-bottom price of 1 euro per basket. Fact #4: I am…

  • Karen DeMasco’s Steamed Lemon Puddings

    I'll tell you, up until the last minute it was going to be a pavlova. It was going to be crisp and marshmallowy and billowy and beautiful, spotted with ruby-red pomegranate seeds floating on top of a thick tide of yogurt cream. Spectacular, I tell you! And also way too much for a lunch party…