December 21, 2009 – 12:15 pm
In case you missed the 24 hour news coverage, New York got a little bit of snow for the first time this year. At some point during yesterday’s shift at my pastry internship, the pastry chef, sous chef, and I poked out heads out of the bulkhead from the basement kitchen and watched with delight [...]
December 11, 2009 – 1:52 pm
There are cookie recipes everywhere I turn, a sure hallmark of the holiday season. They’re on the blogs, they’re in my email, and they’re are all over my food mags. They’re at my internship too. It’s the holidays and everyone loves the excuse to bake, including yours truly. I love setting aside whole days devoted [...]
Last week I asked my friend Jeff what I should bring to the 30 birthday celebration that he was planning for our friend Devon. His response, “chocolate chip cookies”, came without hesitation.
March 13, 2009 – 12:17 am
There are a lot of really good things coming out of my kitchen this weekend, and I just can’t wait to tell you about each and every one. Some of them even prompted an after work trip in Soho to hit Broadway Panhandler (yeah, yeah, I know, that’s NOHO not Soho, but who can keep [...]
February 23, 2009 – 10:18 pm
I’ve been a little down in the dumps about my job lately because things are moving across my desk at a dizzying speed and I’m feeling sort of powerless about quality control, bound to each successive deadline. I’m not proud of my work and there have definitely been mistakes. In this situation, with no opportunity [...]
January 14, 2009 – 11:09 am
I took some really beautiful pictures of this recipe that you will never see because my camera has EATEN them. To compensate (a little) I did take a few shots of the finished product, so let’s get right to that, because Jamie Oliver was not exaggerating when he named these the best in the World. [...]
January 12, 2009 – 2:43 pm
For the version of this recipe that worked, click here.
I will begin by saying that this post was doomed from the start. It was plagued by senior moments, camera issues, and kitchen disorganization. And even with all that, these coffee biscotti bars, as I have decided to call them, still came out pretty darn good [...]
December 22, 2008 – 10:16 pm
I’ve been on a baking binge for the holidays and I can’t seem to stop. It may be the four pounds of dark chocolate I bought at Jacques Torres that is giving me the choco-pneumonia and the coco-loco flu. These decadent macaroons are another installment in the parade of chocolate creations (see: Chocolate Salted Caramels, [...]
December 11, 2008 – 12:07 pm
Like every kid, I loved decorating cookies at Christmas. The only problem was, mine were cookies that only a mother could love. Pastry decorating has never really been my forte (even though I began my illustrious foodservice career at Mrs. Fields: the famous purveyor of giant, custom-decorated chocolate chip cookies), and yet in my old [...]
December 10, 2008 – 12:24 pm
I’m not really a holiday season enthusiast per se, but I do find that it’s a great excuse to stretch my baking wings. With that said, it is highly unusual to find me putting up any Christmas trees (or menorahs for that matter). This cookie is about as red and green as I go, luckily, [...]
