How to Make Gougères, or Savory Choux Pastry
Filed Under Cooking Videos, Food History, Kitchen Tips, Recipes, What's Up at TIK France
Anyone who bakes has probably at least heard of pâte à choux, or choux pastry, that airy, delicious pastry that is the base for such French treats as eclairs and cream puffs. But you might not have heard of gougères, which is a savory, cheese-infused version of the same type of dough. Learn to make choux pastry on a cooking vacation in France. Choux pastry is one of those baking… Read
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A History of Sandwiches and a Sandwich Recipe
Filed Under Cooking Videos, Food History, Kitchen Tips, Recipes Italy, USA
It's national sandwich day, and we're asking ourselves: do sandwiches exist in the cuisine of every country in the world? What defines a sandwich? Does a wrap count? What about a sandwich in pita? A burrito? A spring roll? A crepe? Let's make things easier and say that to be a sandwich, it has to have something 'sandwiched' between two pieces of bread. One piece of bread folded over doesn't… Read
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Recipe for Lemon Macarons
Filed Under Cooking Videos, Kitchen Tips, Recipes France
Macarons are one of our favorite desserts. Light, airy, chewy, and delicious, they are naturally gluten free, and easy to make dairy free if you have a mind to the filling. My kids like to make them too, and they've gotten pretty good at it! Watch our video on making Almond Macarons: Check out our one-day cooking classes in Paris. A couple tricks to making a good macarons: first, make… Read
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Recipe for Lemon Posset
Filed Under Cooking Videos, Food History, Recipes United Kingdom
We have a new obsession in our house, and it's lemon posset (pronounced "paw-set"). Fabulously simple (it has only 3 ingredients), stunningly luscious, it is our new favorite dessert. What is a posset? We know it as a creamy, lemony dessert from Britain that a bit like a pudding. Browse more of our recipes. An online search reveals that it was originally made with milk curdled with spiced wine or… Read
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What Is a Baguette? Plus a Baguette Recipe
Filed Under Cooking Videos, Food History, Kitchen Tips, Recipes France
Bread is a staple of many destinations we offer for our food tours and cooking vacations, and perhaps the best examples of this are France and Italy, where bread making is a true art. In France, the classic and famous baguette is perhaps one of the most instantly identifiable culinary products in the world. So what is a baguette? A baguette is basically defined by three things: a long, thin… Read
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The Best Chicken Noodle Soup
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I've decided to share my recipe for The Best Chicken Noodle Soup. We're in the heart of soup season, one of my favorite times of year. Not only am I obsessed - OBSESSED! - with homemade broth, as a working mom I love anything that can be made in one big pot and that can serve the next day as leftovers. Of course, at TIK we're also all about doing… Read
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