A conversation at The Good Egg, a wonderful cookbook store in Kensington Market in Toronto, led me to learn that Samin Nosrat’s first book, Salt Fat Acid Heat has a granola recipe. I was in the store picking up some books about candied fruit, unusual cookies, and creative cake...
For this year’s Passover meals, we were in Montreal, and I made two different desserts ahead of time while in Toronto. One was an old favourite based on a Claudia Roden recipe involving boiling a whole orange. But this time, I used a mix of navel orange, clementine, and frozen...
Sometimes, we end up with too much milk that has to be used. What to do? Well, we’ve enjoyed making our own condensed milk, especially a variation that my daughter loves for making a quick, hot drink.
For a bake sale at my daughter’s school, I went with one tried-and-true item, marbled tahini cookies, and also made something new, a more sophisticated variation on Key lime bars.
I came across this stunning dessert on the America’s Test Kitchen website, and it was definitely calling to me. After a shopping trip at Sanko, I was all set to go.