Gathered recipes from my cooking experiments throughout the world.
06 janvier 2022 12 parts Expérience En janvier 2021, Matthaeus et moi étions en quarantaine dans un petit appartement de Samy Cohn au Weizmann Institute, en rentrant du dernier Noël avec Papa. Après 2 semaines à cuisiner très sobrement, une fois rentrés chez nous j'ai eu envie de faire une grande recette de cuisine. Et… Continue reading Galette des rois
2021-11-25 12-16 slices Experience I made this for Thanksgiving dinner 2021, which was also a birthday party for Matthaeus, me and Melanie - Ilia's wife. We had Ferdi, Elizabeth, Noa, Noam, Aryeh, Rachel, Ilia and Melanie over. People loved the birthday pie. Ferdi said - yeah the liquor is good but it's nothing compared to… Continue reading Apple Pear Ginger pie
September 2021 6-inch cake, serves 6-8 people Experience I made it twice, in August and September 2021. It's very pretty. I made it in 2/3 proportions, and Matthaeus and I struggled to eat the whole thing in one week. I halved the caramel, it's really too much. Ingredients Cake 11/2 cup (225 g) flour2 1/4… Continue reading Ginger cake
18/12/2021, Petit Rieu 9 gaufres Expérience Août 2021: fait à Malabry, après avoir déjà testé au Petit Rieu pour nous 4 et Aude et sa famille. Très bon, mais pas bien cuit au centre, les boules sortaient du frigo et étaient peut-être trop épaisses (1.5x la recette pour 9 gaufres). En plus, la pâte a… Continue reading Gaufres liégeoises
4-6 servings Experience Made this in July 2021, for the Ron's mum's memorial. I found it easy to make, tasty, a basic good persian-style cake. The recipe here is half that on the website, it makes a small cake. I tripled the rosewater everywhere (indicated here as double), because my rosewater is two years old.… Continue reading Rosewater cake (gluten-free)
February 2021 8-12 servings Experience Made this in February 2021 because it was strawberry season in Israel and because we made the homemade PURE work and I wanted to celebrate.Made it again in March 2021 for basically the same reason (PURE v2), in half proportions, it was a small slice for 6 people, but the… Continue reading Strawberry shortcake
Recipe with yeast 12 doughnuts Experience 31/10/2020: 1/2 of that frosting was too little. They were so tasty. 12/09/2021: made it for group meeting. All of the glaze, which was enough, but without the vanilla extract: the taste was great but I had to add a couple teaspoons more cream cause it was too solid… Continue reading Sourdough discard Doughnuts
8 servings Ingredients Tart (worth making and not buying) 1 1/2 cups flour (whole wheat works well)1/2 cup butter, room T°pinch of salt1 egg1/4 cup sugar Filling 1 cup mascarpone3 tbsp honey1/2 tsp vanilla extract12-16 figs halved2 tbsp pistachios chopped Recipe Tart With mixer, beat softened butter until pale and soft. Add sugar and beat until fluffy.Slowly add in beaten egg, then flour and salt until crumbly.… Continue reading Mascarpone fig tart
En mémoire de Manou, morte sans que j'ai pu la revoir, le 13 août 2020. 8 servings Ingredients Honey Cake 136 g honey72 g granulated sugar48 g coffee or espresso (already made, not the powder)72 g vegetable oil94 g eggs (about 2 medium)160 g all-purpose flour (1 1/3 cup)9 g baking powder (2 tsp)1.5 g salt (1/4 tsp)1/2 tsp ground cinnamon Frosting 75 g heavy cream50 g mascarpone (room temperature)25 g honey (1 heaping Tbsp) Decoration about 125 g of figs1/8 cup shelled toasted pistachios choppedHoney for drizzling Recipe… Continue reading Honey cake with figs, mascarpone, pistachios
16 servings Experience June 2020: I made the recipe at 2/3 ratio, and made a large and a small cake with 2 layers. It could have been easily sliced into 3 layers and with more jam to make it more moist. I used less butter (2/3 of 2/3) for the buttercream, and not much was… Continue reading Tea Cake with Raspberry Filling
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