I like to take things people know and love and make them better with what I know and love. That’s my cooking style. And it’s how I bring my restaurant + Paris experiences with me—to cakes for birthdays, to dinner parties, and to recipes for this blog. These DIY graham crackers—and trust me when I…
Chocolate
Recipe: Brown Butter Maple Chess Pie
Coachella is finally over, which means the following: I contract my annual post-Coachella sickness, this year in the form of acute pharyngitis (still worth it, though) I spent copious hours poring over vibrant photos of the desert sunsets and stages reliving the best three days of the year I eat everything in sight to make…
Mast Brothers Chocolate Chunk Buckwheat Cookies
I gotta say, I spent the first few days of the new year feeling like it was 2015s instead of 2016. But with the Coachella lineup out (TWO chances to see Diplo in one weekend?!), Mexico for the next five days, and these hunky chunky cookies, everything is looking good! In January, the whole world…
Spotlight: Gluten-Free Baking with SF Cooking School
A few months back, I upped my savory skills with a stellar vegetarian cooking class with the San Francisco Cooking School. I got the opportunity to return to the school (and subsequently drool over the gorgeous kitchen) with a class that was a little more up my alley – a guide to gluten-free baking. Overhyped…
Recipe: Hazelnut Sea Salt Brownies
When visiting Paris last year, I probably ate every kind of pastry imaginable – croissants, tarts, canelés, macarons, etc. But one thing noticeably absent was brownies. I don’t remember even once coming across a brownie to munch on, and I went to a lot of patisseries. It could be because brownies are one of the…