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Teen Baker. Tartelette, these are for you! How to Make Macarons: A Detailed, Illustrated Step-by-Step Recipe. Macarons are a French delicacy I am completely crazy about.

How to Make Macarons: A Detailed, Illustrated Step-by-Step Recipe

Since I can’t always be in Paris close to my favorite pastry-chef, Pierre Hermé, I have decided to make my own. It’s not an easy task, and it needs a lot of patience. I learned how to make them in Paris, but when I came back I searched around the internet for some recipes providing the perfect ratios. I learned the hard way that macarons are capricious little wonders: add a bit of this or that, and your delicate balance tips over; I’ve seen my share of overbaked, flat, cracked or overinflated numbers coming out of my oven. No recipe is universal, and the most important thing is to go slow. Spongata - An Italian Minced Pie in Georgian London. Every Christmas for the past 25 years, I have made spongata from a recipe published in 1820 by one of my favourite cookery authors, the Italian confectioner Giuliamo Jarrin.

Spongata - An Italian Minced Pie in Georgian London

This delicious peppery honey cake is still made at Christmas in villages and towns throughout Emilia Romagna, Jarrin's native region. Indeed, just about every family have their own recipe, as do the professional pastry shops. All keep their own specific methods and ingredients as proudly guarded secrets. This interesting celebration cake is sometimes compared to the English mince pie, though in reality it is much more closely related to the better known Italian confections panpepato and panforte.

Though unlike these celebrated cakes, spongata has a thin coating of crisp pastry. Jarrin was born in the town of Colorno near Parma in 1784. To my knowledge, there are no recipes for spongata in any of the works on cookery and confectionery printed in Italy during the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. . * G. Welcome 2012! Smoked Salmon Crisps with Lemon Wasabi Cream Cheese and My Top 5 Recipes of 2011 « Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drives. Homemade Goodies. Chicken Potpie. Homemade Bread Recipes: {Both Oven Baked & Machine. Freshly baked bread, still warm from the oven, sliced thick, slathered with real butter and topped with some homemade strawberry jam or slices of thick cheese, delicious!

Homemade Bread Recipes: {Both Oven Baked & Machine

Baking bread is not only heavenly, it’s a substantial treat made with wholesome ingredients and no added preservatives. Who knew something so simple and basic as this could have so much goodness to offer! This Recipe Hit List is a collection of recipes that I’ve handpicked from around the net, you’ll find lots of varieties to choose from: White, Oat, Rye, Whole Wheat and more (including a large list of bread machine recipes towards the bottom of the page).

Risotto ai funghi con MDP. Recettes légères avec les médecins experts du bien-être, Jean-Philippe Zermati et Gérard Apfeldorfer - Noël en toute légèreté - Art de vivre. Recettes amusantes avec de l Agar-Agar. Japanese Cooking. While many people here in the United States have heard of Tonkatsu most have not heard of Menchi Katsu.

Japanese Cooking

Menchi means mince in Japanese and Katsu means cutlet. So basically Menchi Katsu is a minced meat patty that is breaded in flour, egg, panko and deep-fried. When I first started on Twitter a couple of years ago I tweeted about how I missed the Menchi Katsu at my favorite restaurant in Tokyo and was planning on making it that night for dinner. After that tweet I received many questions asking me about Menchi Katsu.

I thought to myself at the time that I really needed to share my Menchi Katsu recipe so everyone could see what they’ve been missing! Chestnut flour and chocolate drops biscotti. Novembre 15, 2011 I succeeded to post the recipe at the second attempt. I baked this biscotti for the first time early this summer for a special Tuscan dinner with friends, writing the ingredients on a small piece of paper and losing it as expected at the end of the evening. It’s always the same: you put the notes scribbled down with codes and abbreviations that only you can understand in that book because you are sure you will easily remember that it is there, except then forgetting about it after 5 minutes, giving the recipe for missing for the months to come.

Challa French Toast With Bacon Maple Butter. Corte Visconti and Risotto with a Count in Lombardy. Once upon a time....In a remote area of Italy's Lombardy region, there lives a count, Edoardo Visconti di Modrone, whose family's noble history dates back to the 1300s.

Corte Visconti and Risotto with a Count in Lombardy

His ancestor Gian Galeazzo Visconti was the first Duke of Milan. After living in London and then Milan, Edoardo decided to return to the family's countryside home in a quiet village outside of Pavia. The villa was once the family's vacation and hunting lodge. It was also used as a retreat by his great uncle, the screenwriter and director, Luchino Visconti. Luchino is most known for his films Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) and Death in Venice.

Count Edoardo in the Rice Fields (photo courtesy of Krista Bjorn of Rambling Tart) Inside the villa at Corte Visconti - Remains from the hunt and books of Luchino Visconti Along with running the villa, Edoardo manages the rice farm, which has been in the family since the 1800s. Oranges filled with Jelly. Japanese food! Authentic, mostly healthy Japanese recipes for everyone. Classes in Bellevue and Seattle. Jacques Pepin's Best French Classics. "What is it like to edit Jacques Pépin?

Jacques Pepin's Best French Classics

" A Spicy Perspective — Easy Recipes and Spicy Conversation — View All Photos < Thanksgiving Dinner Side Dishes.