Category: Recipes

Julienne half an eggplant, skin on. Sauté in a pan with olive oil and salt until soft, perhaps 6 minutes. Take some plum tomatoes, mark an X on the bottom, and drop into boiling water for 20 seconds until the skin splits. Remove from water and put into ice bath to stop the cooking. Remove…

Cake ½ cup/113 grams unsalted butter at room temperature 1 ¼ cups/260 grams sugar 2 large eggs 1 ½ cups flour/188 grams 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 ¼ cups/300 grams sour cream 1 teaspoon vanilla Streusel ½ cup packed dark brown sugar ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 tsp ground cinnamon 3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted ¾…

Makes 5 16 oz cream 50 g sugar 2.5 sheets of gelatin 1.75 oz 55% Valrhona Equatoriale chocolate 1.75 oz 70% Valrhona Guanaja chocolate Directions Bring sugar and heavy cream to simmer Meanwhile bloom the gelatin using ice water Melt chocolate into heavy cream mixture, remove from heat and stir in gelatin Pass entire mixture…

112g flour 7.5g sugar 2g salt 1 stick butter 1/4 cup water (cold from tap) Directions Whisk dry ingredients.  Add butter. Mush with fingers.  Add water.  Roll out dough; ideally it’s ~65 degrees. Roll, fold in 1/4ths.  In fridge for 2 hours.  Back 350 for 60 minutes. 

First Bowl 100 grams sugar + additional for sprinkling on fruit 34 grams flour Lemon juice Second Bowl 1 stick melted butter 150 grams of flour 100 grams sugar Directions In a bowl, put 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 cup flour, juice from two lemons. Mix. In another bowl put one stick of melted butter, 1…

113 grams almonds roasted and chopped 1 tablespoon water 1/4 cup butter pinch of salt 110 grams white sugar 22 grams brown sugar 70 grams bittersweet chocolate vanilla extract (about a teaspoon) 1/8 teaspoon baking soda Directions Note: before you start, measure out the baking soda and vanilla, so that you can immediately put it…

1 cup sugar (215g) 1 stick melted butter 2 eggs 1/2 cup cocoa (50g) 1/2 cup flour (64g) Directions Preheat the oven to 350ºF.  Cream butter, sugar. Add eggs.  Add dry ingredients.  Bake 10-12 minutes. 

400 grams sugar 4 tablespoons butter pinch of salt 198 grams marshmallows 5 ounces of evaporated milk (it’s in a can; NOT condensed milk) Directions Heat this mixture to 234 degrees. Stir plenty. Flame should not be too hot or sugar will scorch. Keep stirring especially if you decide to increase the flame to get…

CAKE 1½ cups unsalted roasted pistachios 1 teaspoon kosher salt ½ cup flour ½ cup ground almonds 2 sticks (8 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1½ cups sugar 4 large eggs Zest of ½ lemon ½ teaspoon almond extract GLAZE 1 tablespoon lemon juice ½ cup powdered sugar Directions Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Grease a 9×4-inch loaf pan and line the bottom with parchment paper. In a food processor, grind the pistachios to a fine crumb. Be careful not to…

via David Leite DOUGH:  2 cups minus 2 tablespoons flour, plus more for the work surface 1/4 teaspoon sea salt 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons cold water 2 sticks unsalted butter (8 oz), room temperature CUSTARD:  3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 1/4 cups milk, divided 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar 1 cinnamon stick 2/3 cup…