caramelized banana egg custard with vanilla piroulines

i couldn’t wait to get up this morning so i could soften the butter for another round of vanilla wafers. this time i doubled the batch, used a butter spray on the pan instead of real butter (butter overkill in the latter if there is such a thing) & rolled them around a wooden spoon [...]

easy vanilla wafers

i bought a jar of madagascar vanilla paste for my birthday. i was thrilled to see they were making this because the bean is difficult to manage. the flavor is the same & it’s easy to make a vanilla sugar with for easy vanilla wafers. anyone can make this if you have good butter & [...]

the real, the original, the authentic

i woke early again in order to make cookies so i could bring some to pottery class today. i wasn’t sure it would happen because i stayed up late last night, but alas my kitchen now reeks of toll house cookies. i still like these the best. the recipe is on the bag of chips, [...]