Using Spring as inspiration: the flowers blooming, and Nature celebrating with bursts of life, I've been chasing the best Creme Brulee recipe to celebrate Spring. Meet the Hibiscus Tea Creme Brulee I'm making this Creme Brulee recipe for Fairchild Botanical Garden's Spring Garden Festival, this April 12 and 13, where approximately 120 people will try this dessert for the first time! In the development of this recipe, I've gone through about 4 versions of Creme Brulee this week. ...
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Blood Orange Marmalade
This Blood Orange Marmalade recipe helps you dress up whatever dish you're making. From desserts to salads, to cold cuts and bbq, it's incredibly versatile! Since it's not overly sweet and slightly tart and bitter, it feels more adult, and by extension carries a more complex flavor profile. So it's been a while.... It's so good to be back to writing! We took a hiatus because life happened, Alicia and I got engaged! And we moved out! All within 2 weeks, which required tons of planning, ...
The Best Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
It took me a long time to warm up to oatmeal raisin cookies. It's the raisins, really. At worst you're eating bland oatmeal and pockets of super high sugar spikes from the crystalized sugar in the raisins. Overall not a great experience, meh, at best. Till you try these! The title says it all The Best Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies and it's truly earned. You can expect: soft, chewy, warm oatmeal that's been spiced with a little bit of cinnamon soft melty dark chocolate ...
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies
These Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies will take you to unexpected places! They're versatile and carry almost any flavor you put on them. In this guide I include tips to make it your own. Bonus Point! They're very rich, so you may have them for dessert for a few days and not get bored of the variety! I love Alicia's Peanut butter Cookies, they're a thing of beauty, she uses crunchy peanut butter which adds a little more bite and texture. She made them a few weeks ago and I've been itching to ...
Lemon Poached Pears
Lemon Poached Pears are a big thing with my family. Being a chef, I love cooking healthy but indulgent dishes for my mom and brother. Last weekend we had a pop-up event at the Tasting Room. There were 5 courses, wine flowed from barrels on the wall, and there was Paella! It was a treat to cook for the guests, returning and new alike, and especially try out this new version of a classic poached pears. The whole process is very straightforward, takes less than an hour, and you can modulate the ...