I first learned about madeleines about three years ago while my husband and I were watching “The Transporter” on television. There amidst scenes featuring crazed, gun-wielding villains, was a cozy little kitchen moment where the woman Frank Martin is protecting repays his kindness with a batch of freshly baked madeleines. “My mother used to make fresh madeleines every morning, ” she tells him, “I smell them and my whole childhood comes back in one big flood, like Proust.” I enjoy guy-flicks with their explosions ... lire la suite
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I first learned about madeleines about three years ago while my husband and I were watching “The Transporter” on television. There amidst scenes featuring crazed, gun-wielding villains, was a cozy little kitchen moment where the woman Frank Martin is protecting repays his kindness with a batch of freshly baked madeleines.
Every now and then, as I’m rushing through the New York City subways, a song titled “Wear Sunscreen” shuffles onto my iPod. It’s based on an essay titled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,” which was written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997.
L'édition de septembre de Blender Magazine révéle les chansons préférées des deux candidats à l'élection présidentielle américaine, le démocrate Barack Obama et le républicain John McCain. Et le moins que l'on puisse dire, c'est que leurs goûts sont aussi différents que leurs politiques !
Merry Christmas to our wonderful extended family! From all of us here at Sweetness & Light, Inc. including the corporate management, the administrative staff, editorial staff, the (non-striking) writers, the fact checkers, the layout artists, the typesetters, the legal department, the accountants, the production assistants, the paid and unpaid interns, the runners, the switchboard operators, the security team, the stock holders and the cleaning crew.
I was in a holiday mood yesterday. Last year, at this time, my life was a nightmare of 18 hours a day spent writing and editing a thesis. This year, I am determind to make up for it by celebrating every holiday and festival that comes my way! All this coming week, I will be making sweets for Diwali, but today, it is a cookie.
From her diehard defenders at the Washington Post: Sooner or Later, Candidates Will Surely Look Lost By Philip Kennicott Wednesday, December 26, 2007; C01 They have become a useful, though very tricky, class of images in this roller-coaster ride of a presidential campaign.
Review by Jennie Schacht. In the world of wine, the sweet ones get short shrift. But veteran cookbook author James Peterson doesn’t mind. His book, Sweet Wines: A Guide to the World’s Best with Recipes, covers the territory that wine writers often leave behind. Peterson’s discussion of the wines, accompanied by his own evocative photographs, covers this complex subject clearly and succinctly.
Wow, what a combination, and blogger Say-very Sweet Things has the recipe for these cupcakes and some commentary: To make cupcakes, use any boxed French vanilla cake mix or your own from scratch. Follow instructions on back of box, but increase water to 1 ½ cup and add 3 heaping tablespoons of instant Chai Latte Tea.
The theme for this month’s Sugar High Friday was Sugar High Friday #41: Sweet Gifts, where I asked you to tell me about a dessert you made (or want to make) for somebody else. What an amazing group of people you are, to have created such a huge collection of sweet gifts for your friends, family, and loved ones all over the world!
Kitchen Toys and Sweet Treats from Food & Wine Posted by Editor April 18, 2008 Posted by Brilynn Ferguson on Paper Palate March's issue of Food & Wine magazine is dubbed the Special Kitchen Issue and reviews a variety of small appliances, giving the top three in each category.
There are many ways to love a vegetable, and for some time one of my favorite ways to appreciate the sweet potato has been in the form of sweet potato muffins. A few weeks ago I wrote about the luscious flavor of a baked sweet potato garnished with butter and river salt, and to be sure that preparation provides a delight all its own.
The sincerest form of flattery
Sweet Jesus: France Pissed at Valerie Begue Posted at December 21st, 2007 3: pm by mischalova Filed under:
My friends, what you see pictured above are two things: a yeasted bakery-style sweet bun and a tray of mystery baked goods. The first item is one of the many delightful things I made in my kitchen this past weekend thanks to my newest baking book, A Passion for Baking, by Marcy Goldman.
December 20, 2007
What is it about pork that plays so nicely with sweet flavors? Marion made some wonderful lemon ricotta pancakes with sautéed apples for breakfast Sunday [yes, I photographed them—they will be a post one of these days]. Tasting the apples, which had been sautéed in butter with some sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice, I said they would also be great with something savory.
Black Bean & Sweet Potato Soup
From the wire services: A Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus holds a Palestinian flag during a demonstration against the construction of the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Umm Salamouna, south of Bethlehem, December 21, 2007. An Israeli soldier tackles a Palestinian protester dressed as Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, as they scuffle at a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the village of Umm Salamona, near the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, Dec.
From an outrage CNN and Associated Press: NOLA protesters vow to keep fighting By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 21 NEW ORLEANS - After violent clashes with police at City Hall, protesters vowed that the fight over a plan to demolish 218 public housing buildings for the poor was far from over, both in the courts and on the streets.
From those champions of the Geneva Conventions at the Associated Press: In this image released by the U. S. Army, Thursday Dec. bodies found in a mass grave near a torture chamber are seen near Muqdadiyah, Iraq. Torture chamber found in Iraq By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer Fri Dec 21