Viva la France! Thrilled to watch France win the World Cup today. Put me in the mood to eat well, like the French. Perhaps, like me, you have heaps of sumptuous vegetables and fruits who fantasize about jumping into your cloth-lined basket for a bicycle ride to the Jardin due Luxembourg or the Parc Monceau. […]
Tag: pie
Chocolate Graham Cracker Pie when the Heat gets Hot
“Well, there’s no sense in nonsense when the heat gets hot.” Favorite line from Safety Not Guaranteed, a marginal film that I loved but most everyone else did not. This line comes to mind here on the porch, where summer feels just about ready to settle in for a heavy, thick bear hug. I love […]
Tarte Tatin
This pie, my Daring Bakers club challenge for the month, is upside down. Tarte Tatin was the delightful discovery of an overworked French woman who meant to make a regular apple pie but left the apples too long in the butter and sugar, was running short on time, so chose to throw the crust on top rather […]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pie and the Eve of Thirty
In Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevky’s young headstrong character has this to say: “Do you know I’ve been sitting here thinking to myself: that if I didn’t believe in life, if I lost faith in the woman I love, lost faith in the order of things, were convinced in fact that everything is a disorderly, damnable, and […]