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Susan Herrmann Loomis, tart pastry, pate sucree

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NOTES AND RECIPE BLOG

Favorite Meal of the Day

What’s yours? I love them all of course, but breakfast is my favorite.  There is something so fresh and new about it.   I find it

Strawberry and Pepper Tart

For the pâte sucrée: 1-3/4 cups (230g) all-purpose flour ½ teaspoons fine sea salt ½ cup vanilla sugar 4 large egg yolks 8 tablespoons (125g)

Real Values

Looking forward without looking left, right, or behind (fracking); violence on the street in a

Goat Cheese

Last night my friend Alain Madonna joined us for dinner as part of class at On Rue Tatin.

Mackerel

There are few things in life one can really count on. Weather is one. The celebratory delight when a champagne cork pops is another. And

Vanilla Sugar

A house without a cookie is a sad place indeed, I thought as I pulled the vanilla sugar from

Cookeez

In the early 1980’s, I was hired to open a small tea salon in the

Language for Breakfast

This morning over fresh bread, butter, jam and steaming bowls of hot chocolate (for my daughter) and tea (for me), I was helping Fiona, who

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