Recipe from Chocolates and Confections by Peter GrewelingEmployees at my new office give “lightning talks” from time to time: short, under-five minute presentations on a topic of your choice. I thought it would be fun to do a tutorial on chocolate making and made a presentatio...
I’ve been intrigued by the use of what Milk Bar calls “MSG for bakers”, i.e. milk powder. Our pantry has a bag of it because some of the bread recipes I make call for it. It’s used in this cookie recipe to make “milk crumbs”: basically, a streusel topping enhanced with milk po...
For a dinner we were hosting on Sunday, I made two recipes out of Ottolenghi’s first book, the harissa-marinated chicken with grapefruit salad, and the chickpeas and spinach with honeyed sweet potato. I thought freshly made pita would be a good accompaniment, and dug out Reinh...
On my way home from a restaurant last night, I realized I could pass by the Toronto Momofuku and pick up some corn powder, useful for making, among other things, corn cookies. That got me thinking about compost cookies, so I also dropped by a 7-11 on the way home to pick up so...
I didn’t do much baking over the holidays while in Florida, but did make this batch of muffins. Without a scale, I’m not sure the quantity of sweet potato I used, but it was definitely more than called for, as the finished muffins were very soft and moist. Since I used the Spl...