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{Cookbook Review}: Alice Medrich’s Sinfully Easy Desserts

Jul 9 by Anita 11 Comments

When a great deal of your personal and professional life revolves around baking, you forget how much of the vernacular you’ve absorbed over time. When I taught a few enthusiast classes at Tante Marie’s, it was a reminder of how easy it is to take all I’d learned in pastry school and over the years […]...

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Fruit, Recipes, Reviews Tagged With: alice medrich, balsamic, cherries, cookbook, review, sinfully easy desserts

Nice et Clafouti Encore

Jul 1 by Anita 13 Comments

Now, I try not to repeat recipes on this site, even if there are some filed-away-by-heart recipes that I make over and over again just for myself (World Peace Cookies, I’m looking at you). However, once you read through my day trip to Monte Carlo and Nice I hope you’ll see just why I had […]...

Filed Under: Cakes, Europe, Fruit, Personal, Recipes, Travel Tagged With: cherries, clafouti, Europe, france, honeymoon, monte carlo, nice, travel


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