I’ve always been a big fan of apples in salads. Add a couple cubes of Gruyere, a few nuts and some good greens and you’ve got yourself a wonderful filling dish. For this salad, I used this new nut mix from Back to Nature. If you’re a regular visitor to this blog, you’ll know that […] Read more…
My grandfather made the most amazing potato galettes. Unfortunately his recipe was never really written down and my mother and grandma both have only a vague idea of how he made them. I enjoy playing around with potato fritter recipes and like to think that he lends his watchful eye when I get in the […] Read more…
It’s apple week in the Chocolate Shavings kitchen! This is the second apple dessert I’ve got my hands on since going apple picking this weekend. I still have a basket-full of apples to get through, so keep on sending me your favorite apple recipes! I had never made apple crisp before. In France, I was […] Read more…
It’s apple week in the Chocolate Shavings kitchen! For some odd reason, I had never really been apple picking. I have a distant memory of my parents taking me to this farm once outside of Paris and picking a couple apples and learning how to make bread, but it wasn’t exactly the same adventure. It […] Read more…
There’s not a lot that a good cupcake can’t cure. Let me tell you, cupcakes have often been my pick-me-up when the day hasn’t been so sweet. Maybe it’s a good thing that I no longer live close to NYC’s Buttercup Bake shop! I am in cupcake testing madness (for a little project of mine […] Read more…
So… I had promised myself I wouldn’t do it and then I caved! The problem with me is that I’ve never really been a woman of measure and I tend to be pretty obsessed with things that I take a liking to. For those reasons, I had promised I wouldn’t hop on the twitter train. […] Read more…