What’d You Do Last Weekend?

With a little extra pastry cream and a simple crepe batter, try your hand at a gateau de crepes, also known as mille crepes.
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Gateau de Crepes

Posted by jenny on 07/16/2010
Gateau de Crepes

I've only had this once, but the memory of it is like a dream. A cold night in New York, walking the Upper East Side with my best friend Tanarra - searching for a bakery whose name I was unsure of. I'd heard of this cake before - layers of crepes separated by vanilla pastry cream, and I heard this place had them. I think we got the last piece that night.


Pistachio Olive Oil Cake

Posted by jenny on 06/21/2010
Pistachio Olive Oil Cake

Two things were behind the inspiration to bake an olive oil cake a few weeks ago. One was the purchase of Italian pistachio powder from Buon Italia in Chelsea Market (New York). Ever since the first time I walked into that store I'd searched for products I could fly home and put to good use.


Blueberry Dutch Baby

Posted by jenny on 06/07/2010
Blueberry Dutch Baby

Maybe you need to grow up outside of Seattle to appreciate dutch babies. I had my first from a recipe I'd found in a grocery store flier in Texas, where I grew up. They called it a Blueberry Puff Pancake, and it was a wild hit with my extended family anytime I would make it. Nobody had ever eaten anything like it where I came from, so it was a real brunch novelty.


Challah Buns and Braids

Posted by jenny on 04/15/2010
Challah Buns and Braids

Do you want to get really good at something? You have to practice. Malcolm Gladwell said it takes something like 10000 hours of doing the same thing to master it, but maybe that's if you're trying to win the Tour de France or fly a plane. You start developing muscle memory - the unconscious movement used to perform a task - much earlier than that, probably under 200 hours. Of course, I'm no scientist or Malcolm Gladwell, sadly - but I can tell you a little something about my experience with muscle memory and bread baking.


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