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My Mother’s French Silk Pie from Alex Hitz

My Mother’s French Silk Pie from Alex Hitz

In Wednesday’s cookbook review for The Art of the Host, I noted that the 100 recipes in the book are gathered into twelve chapters for holiday events. The first holiday in the book? Thanksgiving. Dessert for author Alex Hitz is cardinal so he has three for this...
Mocha Chip Meringue Cake from Elinor Klivans

Mocha Chip Meringue Cake from Elinor Klivans

  Recently I did a TBT review of The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookbook. The subtitle of the book is “Recipes from the Classic Cookie to Mocha Chip Meringue Cake.” Here’s that cake, in all its glory. This is the perfect summer delight. Perfect if the day is not...
Whipped Cream and Irish Coffee

Whipped Cream and Irish Coffee

This is a truth, a fact, and not one of my modest exaggerations. Whipped cream can be an essential ingredient of a recipe, absolutely required by the laws of physics and chemistry. This post is clearly going to be different. It’s serious and scientific. Now, let’s...
No Ordinary Whipped Cream

No Ordinary Whipped Cream

  For your dessert, your ice cream, or your hot chocolate, I think the best way to describe whipping cream is how a car salesman was describing a fire extinguisher to me: he called it a mandatory option. I did not buy from him. But I surely do agree that whipped...