Posted in Lawrence, breakfast & brunch, chef days, recipes, scones & muffins on Sep 18th, 2009
A few years back I joined forces with a restaurant-owning friend, brought in to run the kitchen and whip the slacker staff – and lazy menu – into shape. Now, if you are a chef, baker, lottery winner or have ever held a spatula or even eyed a whisk, you should run when approached by [...]
Making tiny molded sugars – no, not moldy sugars, sugars shaped in molds – surely pegs me as a fussy, fussy girl. Anyone who deliberately takes sugar from its god-given home – the pourable shaker – and hand-spoons it into wee tins has got to be a little touched, right? Fussy. But…is it fussy, or [...]
I found myself on a local cooking show, wearing white and standing over a bowl, demonstrating how to make ganache. “Ganache is really the mother chocolate,” I was saying to the host, “just this simple mixture, but you can use it hot or cold, as a glaze, a frosting, a filling. In France it’s everything [...]
Posted in breakfast & brunch, recipes, scones & muffins on Jun 25th, 2008
Why not? After all, I walked up a very steep hill today. I’ll climb the Matterhorn tomorrow if it means more muffins. They are just muffins – mini-muffins, little two-biters, at that – but they are two eye-opening bites of very good chocolate. Even as an adult, chocolate in the morning always seems like a [...]
Posted in chocolate on Apr 29th, 2008
I read today that British researchers are recruiting study participants to eat one chocolate bar a day, for a year, all in the name of science. Apparently their trial, beginning in June, …will explore whether compounds called flavonoids found in chocolate and other foods can reduce the risk of heart disease for menopausal women with [...]
