A Culinary Journey from Argentina to Minnesota
It's citrus season! For many of you who know me and have had the opportunity to share many a meal or cup of tea with me, you know my obsession with all things citrus. Lemon and orange are two of the flavors I bake with the most, probably more frequently than chocolate or cocoa, or [...]
I confess that I used to never like Tres Leches Cake. It used to be a dessert that eluded me. I couldn’t understand the concept of a cake sitting in a sweet, milky sauce. The majority of restaurants have Tres Leches Cake on their dessert menu. Maybe it’s just bad luck but I’ve never liked [...]
Winter is finally over! We got the last flurries this week, and they melted mid-morning under the early spring sunrise. I spotted the first burgundy-purple sprouts of tulip leaves timidly rising among winter’s carcass of dead leaves. How wonderful it is to see the thaw after the long winter and gradually get ready to sprout [...]
I am the world’s largest consumer of lemons—at least, that’s what Dan used to tell me. I love the sour, acidic, punchy notes of lemon peel and lemon juice, and a lot of the things I make rely on citrus, and of all the citrus fruits, lemon is definitely my favorite. I easily go through [...]
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In September we had a backlog of celebrations to catch up with on account of the pandemic. It’s been a strange year, what with gatherings constrained and people being very careful not to contract the virus. We have been lucky so far, but also extremely careful, yet when the August and September birthdays rolled in, [...]
