Towards the end of last year I decided to make homemade pistachio paste using this recipe from Stella Parks.  Being ambitious I thought i...

It only took about three years for me to finally get around to testing out Pierre Hermé's Macarons cookbook.  Call it procrastinat...

  Just a quick post this time!  I spent the weekend trying out more recipes from ATK 's How Can It Be Gluten Free Cookbook .  I don...

I love fall.   Not only does the weather turn crisp and my cashmere sweaters are in heavy rotation, but baking takes on a different t...

I've made cheesecake before but felt compelled to make this particular one for purely superficial reasons.  I just loved how it loo...

Blogger La Tartine Gourmande , aka Béa Peltre, recently appeared on The Martha Stewart Show to make these financiers.  If you haven...

Pistachio has to be one of my all-time favorite flavors so when I saw this version of Tish Boyle's marble pound cake on Kokken69...

When I started this blog two years ago I had no clue about all the swag that was out there to be won.   I've entered my fair shar...

I'm back on my ice cream kick.  This time I had to make another favorite... pistachio !   Pistachio is what I call my touchst...

left to right : lemon, pistachio, passion fruit, raspberry One of the things that's so great about baking is its resourcefuln...

My friend Jessie just returned from a whirlwind month-long tour of Asia with her family. She's a great photographer, so in exchange for...

Stayed up late last night to bake the shells for the pistachio and lemon-poppy seed. Pistachio is my old standby and it's my personal f...