Here’s one of the last pastries I dared to make in our San Diego kitchen before our east coast relocation. This month’s Daring Bakers challenge was to construct a strawberry Bavarian with a strawberry mirror glaze. Like any DB, I accepted the challenge. The cake wasn’t too hard to make and only comprised of a [Continue]
The eater, the dog, and I are heading out of San Diego tomorrow; the kitchen is all packed up and we’re packing up the truck today. Our four plus years in San Diego were excellent but we’re moving back to Boston to new jobs, old friends, and the possibility of a house with a yard. [Continue]
Laura over at eatdrinklive is hosting up HHDD#13 and this time it’s Sorbet. I really have no idea who this Donna person is, but I’m always ready for another challenge. The goal was to come up with a sorbet and we’ll all be judged and prizes will be awarded. Anyways, here’s my entry: Pineapple sorbet. [Continue]
No, I’m not talking about taking revenge on sea life; I’m talking about what we ate for dinner. I first made this dish back in my culinary school days in Cambridge. At the time, I thought it was very strange to be to go through all the trouble of cooking something only to later eat [Continue]
I’m giving out some link love this week… You can tell what time of year it is just by all the berries I’m seeing lately. Last week the CSA delivered strawberries, this week I got mullberries. I’m not the only one with berries on my mind: Peabody makes a blackberry jam cake The pastry girl [Continue]