Archive of month: 2010

The Purple Foodie Quiz

We’ve been together a while, haven’t we? And yet there is so much that I need to know about you! Sure I know that most of you are from the USA, or that the highest searched recipe on the blog is the Nutella Pinwheel Cookie, or that 43% of you use Firefox, or that Indians […]
16 years ago

Why is your pesto bitter?

  Everyone around here loves pesto. Much like the marinated peppers, pesto sauce has become a staple in our home. I make a batch every time my pots of basil are green and luxuriant again, and right now they’re growing wild. While I stick to my favourite pesto sauce recipe for it (from Ina Garten’s […]
16 years ago

Flourless Hazelnut Cookies

Do you have midnight cookie hankerings?  I’m pretty sure you do. And even when there might be some cookie crumbs in the jar or a pack of cookies in the pantry, all you want is a fresh, warm cookie, right out of the oven. But isn’t it annoying to get ingredients for a cookie ready […]
16 years ago

I made pasta from scratch!

We’re seven months into 2010 and I thought now might be a good time to review my to-do list for 2010. Out of the 20 things on it, I’ve successfully accomplished the following: Made marshmallows Made Spanish churros Read 4 chef biographies/memoirs: Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, Daniel Boulud’s Letters to a Young Chef, Humble […]
16 years ago

Chocolate Walnut Mud Cake

Over the past few days I’ve been looking for a good chocolate cake recipe. As I looked through my cookbooks and scoured the internet, nothing seemed to appeal to me. I was looking for a recipe that was cakey, and silky delicate, all at the same time. Something fudgy and gooey, but yet slightly airy. […]
16 years ago

Chocolate Chip Muffins

I had a sudden chocolate craving yesterday and that gave me the perfect reason to break into my new bag of dark chocolate. I needed something that was very chocolatey (naturally), that would be put together real fast and that was new to experiment with. Thumbing through my books, a lot of the cakes looked […]
16 years ago

The Best Zucchini Brushchetta

I’m going to keep it short for two reasons: words fail me because this is more delicious than I ever expected something with zucchini to be and secondly because you must run to the kitchen and make the zucchini bruschetta this very minute (or head to the store if you haven’t any zucchini). I had […]
16 years ago

Hazelnut Shortbread

Given the number of hazelnut recipes I have littered around this place, it’s amply clear that I have a weak spot for these nuts. Give me anything with hazelnuts, and you’re golden in my books. Have you stood around your oven when roasting hazelnuts? It smells like nothing else. Now imagine this smell captured in […]
16 years ago