Monthly archive March, 2008

Caramel-Topped Flan

On one of our first dates, Jeff took me to dinner at the now-beloved La Hacienda, where–as luck would have it–a gloriously sequined mariachi band was making its way around the room. Loudly. If you made eye contact with the band leader, they would serenade your table. If you didn’t, they would play on to...

Brioche Raisin Snails

Last week, I joined Tuesdays with Dorie, an online baking group committed to making one recipe a week from the same cookbook: “Baking: From My Home to Yours” by Dorie Greenspan. My first assignment? Brioche Raisin Snails. After a night spent making the lovely, buttery dough and Dorie’s pastry cream, I spent the next morning...

From scratch

Does the world need another food blog? Today the LA Times ran an article classifying blogs by home cooks as “cyber-treacle,” with writers “nattering about what they fed their boyfriends last night, or fuzzily photographing their latest batch of heart-shaped cookies.” Ouch. The Times writer prefers blogs written by chefs, who tend “to focus on...