My choux story begins with cream puffs, the very first pastry I ever learned how to make on my own. I was probably about 12 or 13 years old. By then Mom trusted me to fend for myself in the kitchen, having managed to not set anything on fire (that she knew of). I was…
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Simply Irresistible Guilty Pleasures
It really doesn’t take much to set me off on a baking project–watching back-to-back episodes of The Great British Bake Off (damn, Paul and Mary are harsh!)…perusing the latest online issues of Delicious or Donna Hay (two of my favorite food magazines). I was already primed, itching to bake something, when an online Saveur article…