What’d You Do Last Weekend?

I'm sure you still have mint in your garden, so why not try to make your own mint chocolate chip ice cream? Cacao nibs stand-in for chocolate chips in this grown-up version.

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Cacao Nib Meringues with Lilikoi Curd

Posted by jenny on 04/30/2010

The first week back from Hawaii is the hardest. I crave avocados and pineapple and poke, but more than anything I crave lilikoi (passionfruit). It's so hard to get here in Seattle that I've always got to turn to Perfect Puree or some other frozen packaged fruit mash. This time I happened to have a container of Perfect Puree in the freezer, and I wanted to make something a little reminescent of our time on the island. My first instinct was to pull macadamia nuts from the freezer (we brought back a few pounds) and make a tart, but that just felt too heavy.

Mac Nut Macarons with Chocolate Ganache

Posted by jenny on 10/27/2009

The 2009 October Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to us by Ami S. She chose macarons from Claudia Fleming’s The Last Course: The Desserts of Gramercy Tavern as the challenge recipe.

I would have bet it would take a Daring Bakers Challenge to get me to make macarons, that signature French sandwich cookie that lives in beautiful photos of Parisian cafe life. I'd made them before, years ago in pastry school, at the insistence (and curriculum) of the chef who thought we'd never make it in the world without learning these, langues du chat, and rumballs.