Une Gamine dans la Cuisine Blog Posts

• High-Rise cocktail
  on Mar 17, 2016 in Alcohol cocktails
  Hello, everyone! So, it's been about six months since I've ruffled the waters of this reticent food blog. I'd like to imagine that it's been absently humming to itself, completely relaxed in a warm, summery field, somewhere along the...
• sir thomas sharpe's dark chocolate + garden mint cookies
  on Sep 4, 2015 in Cookies Tom Hiddleston
  Rain a symphony orchestra. there is a thunderstormthey are playing a Wagner overtureand the people leave their seats under the treesand run inside the pavilionthe women giggling, the men pretending calm,wet cigarettes being thrown away,Wagner plays o...
• lemon meringue pie
  on Aug 16, 2015 in pie Summer
  "There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneaththe surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensationwhen you almost remember a name, but don't quite rea...
• wild Ophelia's triple berry pie
  on May 17, 2015 in pie Shakespeare Summer
  "When I start to think, I freeze. And when I freeze I write like a lady who came from a clean, honorable, intelligent and quiet home. And what sort of writing is that?"                                    ...
• flourless maple walnut peanut butter cookies + a giveaway
  on Mar 16, 2015 in Cookies
  "The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in betweenso if they broke, you only lost one. I wished my life could be like that, knotted up so that evenif something broke, the whole thing wouldn't co...
• guest post: banana hazelnut pound cake
  on Mar 2, 2015 in Breakfast cake
  Once again I find myself tumbling swiftly through 2015 without a clock or parachute. Winter has been an absolute lion this year, its frigid, gigantic paw planted firmly on my shoulder, holding me in a frozen state of lethargy. Icy fingertips & dr...
• Happy Birthday, Mom (& Tom Hiddleston)! a mid-winter dark chocolate + blood orange cake
  on Feb 6, 2015 in cake candy
  "Decadence: where the tasty and the unsavoury, the harmful and the delightful are no longer discernible from one another."                                             ~ Wieki SomersOh hello again,...
• apple-berry + hazelnut streusel bars
  on Dec 30, 2014 in Bars
  "let it go - thesmashed word brokenopen vow orthe oath cracked lengthwise - let it goit was sworn togo let them go - the truthful liars andthe false fair friendsand the boths and neithers - you must let them gothey were born togo let all go - th...
• Hiddles Darling holiday cookies
  on Dec 11, 2014 in Cookies
  I inherited my mother's delicate hummingbird bones and gregarious knees {as a teenager, my knees were more talkative than I was in the early mornings}. Even though I prefer the calm serenity of yoga,  every other year or so I take up running for...
• mile-high apple cranberry pie
  on Dec 1, 2014 in pie
  "I don't know which to prefer,the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendos.The blackbird whistling or just after."          ~ Wallace Stevens, from "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"  Happy December, ev...
• cinnamon walnut pear cake with whiskey-mocha fudge
  on Nov 16, 2014 in cake whiskey
  "But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods...for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet c...
• salted cinnamon dulce de leche tart with whiskey whipped cream
  on Nov 3, 2014 in pie Tarts whiskey
  " Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damplyin the shadows, unmattering back from the particular islandof this summer, this NOW, that now is nowhere except underfoot, molde...
• Best *cinnamon* Chocolate Chip Cookies
  on Oct 19, 2014 in Cookies
  The last several days have been a tousled mix of rough sand and jaunty stardust. My *attempt* at conjuring a verily belated birthday crêpe cake was an epic disaster (incriminating evidence is still stuck to the disenchanted stove) and, after what sh...
• Tom Hiddleston's cinnamon-pecan sticky buns + a giveaway!
  on Oct 8, 2014 in Breakfast Tom Hiddleston
  When I fall in love (with an ingredient), I tend to use it with reckless abandon. Lately cinnamon has made its sprucey way onto my yoghurt, oatmeal, ice cream, countertop (and yes, even rice). I cannot get enough of this nimble spice. It was only a m...
• Tom Hiddleston .::triple cinnamon::. pecan sticky buns + a giveaway!
  on Oct 8, 2014 in Breakfast
  When I fall in love (with an ingredient), I tend to use it with reckless abandon. Lately cinnamon has made its sprucey way onto my yoghurt, oatmeal, ice cream, countertop (and yes, even rice). I cannot get enough of this nimble spice. It was only a m...
• Peach + Curry Buttermilk Doughnuts
  on Sep 28, 2014 in Breakfast
  Now, as the wind courts a glacial nuance, I wear my hair short enough to expose a wide forehead and seashell ears to the elements (timing has never been a strong suit). When tresses brush against my neck, i feel constricted...pulled too fiercely agai...
• Honey Marshmallow Crème Swirl Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
  on Sep 19, 2014 in Cookies
      September Their summer romanceover, the loversstill clingto each other the way the greenleaves cling to their trees in the strange heat of September, as ifthis timethere will beno autumn.                              ~ Linda P...
• Blueberry Coconut Macaroons
  on Sep 10, 2014 in Cookies Gluten-free
  "Bid the last fruits to be full;give them another two southerly days,press them to ripeness, and chasethe last sweetness into heavy wine."                                              ~ Rainer Mar...
• Prospero's raspberry + ale pie; an arbitrary farewell to summer
  on Sep 3, 2014 in Berries pie Summer
  "Now my charms are all o'erthrownand what strength I have's mine own,which is most faint: now 'tis true,I must be here confined by you,or sent to Naples. Let me not,since I have my dukedom gotand pardon'd the deceiver, dwellin th...
• Blueberry White Chocolate + Thyme Scones
  on Aug 26, 2014 in blueberries Breakfast Summer
  Summer held its breath until the 13th hour. Finally, upon exhalation, the weather is sticky, languid as molasses...deliciously perfect. I'm odd to relish humidity and that spot on the small of the back which never completely dries during (and aft...