The Simple Art of the Tart

I'm always on a quest for a better pie crust. I like my crust to be flaky, buttery and tasty. After many trials and errors I came upon Orangette's blog and found what has now become my all-time favorite pie crust. What's different about this dough is that you add apple cider vinegar, which keep the dough tender. I love the soft feeling of that dough after it was rolled out. It did not break out when I transferred the dough to the pie plate. For this test I made a sugar pie. Now we're in Heaven.

Recipe:
Pie Crust

AWARDS:

Recently I received two Brillante Weblog Awards and let me tell you that it had made my day.

One the the Awards was from my dear 'food blogger friend' Val. She lives in the same provice as me and some day we will meet. Can't wait to meet this generous person. She always come up with great recipes and participated in many food blogger events. I get a lot of inspiration from her blog. She also like to talk about daily life and her precious daughter. Please take the time to visit Val at:
More Than Burnt Toast

And the second Award was from Farida of Farida’s Azerbaijani Cookbook. She lived in Long Beach, California where she moved from Baku. I'm jealous. Cooking is her passion. She has lot's of interesting recipes. Here is the link to visit her:
Farida's Azerbaijani Cookbook


Brilliant Weblog is a prize given to sites and blogs that are smart and brilliant both in their content and their design. The purpose of the prize is to promote as many blogs as possible in the blogosphere.

Here are the rules to follow :
When you receive the prize you must write a post showing it, together with the name of who has given it to you, and link them back.
Choose a minimum of 7 blogs (or even more) that you find brilliant in their content or design.
Show their names and links and leave them a comment informing they were prized with ‘Brilliant Weblog’.
Show a picture of those who awarded you and those you give the prize (optional).
I am passing this award on to:

-Singapore: Epicurean Escapism
-Amsterdam, NY: A Southern Grace
-Southern California: Alexandra' Kitchen
-Manhattan, NY: Big City, Little Kitchen
-Seattle, Washington: We Heart Food
-Munich: Delicious Days
-And finally: Dine and Dish
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Wow! Chocolate Chips Cookies

Pour yourself a nice cup of coffee and enjoy these wonderful chocolate chips cookies. NY Times has done it again. They published this recipe on July 9th, 2008 and it is a success. It has been blogged I don’t know how many times now. First, there was the No Knead bread that everyone was talking about, and now on their quest for the perfect cookie they adapted a recipe from Jacques Torres.

What I love about the recipe is that you can have fresh cookies, out of the oven, every night of the week. They recommend that you wait 24 hrs to bake your first batch and the dough can be refrigerated for up to 72 hrs.

Of course, I did not wait for 24 hrs to bake my first cookies. After having the dough sit in the fridge for 4 hours I did have to bake four cookies and let me tell you that they were really good. Today, after 24 hrs in the fridge, I baked another batch of four cookies. They are as delicious as yesterday. Cannot wait to see how the flavour will be after 72 hrs. This is now officially my favourite Chocolate Chips Cookies recipe. It’s the perfect combination of taste and texture. They are crunchy on the outside and are moist in the middle. They melt in your mouth. It got rave reviews from my son Mathieu.

So, what are you waiting for? You do not need to run to your favourite bakery to enjoy a perfect Chocolate Chips cookie. Just print the recipe and make yourself good cookies that your friends and family will enjoy. There are things in life that you cannot resist and these cookies are part of that.



Find Story on NY Times:
NY Times Chocolate Chips Cookies

Recipe:
Chocolate Chips Cookies Recipe
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A nice Award

I received a nice creative blogger Award from Luscious. What I like about this blog is that there is a team of husband/wife behind it. He does the cooking and she photographs his food in their tiny Manhattan kitchen. What an inspiration. Everytime I visit I drool over the pictures and would love to sample all the food. They do my kind of cooking and I get a lot of inspiration. Please take the time to visit their blog.

I am going to pass this award to blogs I discovered recently. This way you may be discovering them also. That's the whole purpose. This blogging world is like a big family and we need to talk about each others so that other bloggers discover us.




Here we go:

* Bren at FlanboyantEats. This was such a nice discovery. What a beautiful girl that share a love of cooking with us. She is a professional chef and personal chef, she writes for travel magazines, she teaches cooking classes, she runs a boutique. She even cook on Emeril's show. She is a star.

* Don at Mr. Orph's Kitchen. What can I say. I just discovered Don today because of Bren. This was a nice discovery. I wish I could be sitting in his kitchen right now eating his delicious food. Everythink looks so good. I really have to try those fish tacos.

* Adam at Baking with Dynamite. What a sweet, warm guy. I enjoy reading his posts about fitness. He shares his expertise with us. He does bake also. Watch for his Whoopie Pies. Looks so good.

* Eat me Delicious from Vancouver. Everything she makes turns out beautiful. We do have the same cooking approach. She is vegetarian and she has tried delicious recipes that she shares with us. I also like all of her pictures.

* Vanilla Bean Café. Everytime I visit her blog I want to try all of her recipes. She is from Ottawa where my daughter lives. She shares her love of good food with us.
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