Ice cream is something I like to make and eat. Though I periodically indulge in buying it, in my opinion most of it sucks. Badly stored, often it's with freezer burned. Or the flavors are super sweet and uninteresting. Fast forward a few weeks back, I bought a gelato...
Dulce de leche or manjar, whatever you call it, is a sticky milk reduced to a caramel consistency. It's a treat, but given the hours of monitoring it, well, I think it's demanding. Excessively so! We had a bit too much milk at work, so I put a pot of it on the...
Many years ago when I was a budding pastry cook, I had the task to make a pastry cart for lunch and dinner service. One of my favorite preperations were making tarts. From fresh berries with pastry cream, to baked apple tarts. So I recently made a tart combining some...
The eclair, "choux pastry" filled with cream and glistening with "fondant." It's that quintissential French dessert that can be spectacularly satisfying, or just darn awful. My recent quest for New York's best took me to two boroughs and...
Whenever I visit my sister Rachi in Switzerland, there is always for a new treat to discover. One summer we were welcomed to the table, and after a wonderful dinner a huge square cake pan appeared. Within minutes, four adults and three children had devoured the...
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