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Alicia

Bread

Thoughts On Preferments and Sourdough

May 22, 2020
Wheat and white starters in glass jars

When I first began my bread baking journey, I thought all bread was made with commercial yeast. Boy, was I wrong. It seems everyone is baking bread these days during quarantine, but there’s only one bread that’s really stealing the show. You guessed it – sourdough!  BUT, I don’t really like to call it sourdough. I much prefer the term “naturally leavened.” Naturally leavened bread is made only…

French

Classic Mousse Au Chocolat

May 14, 2020
Chocolate Mousse Recipe (mousse au chocolat)

Looking for a decadent dessert that everyone in the family will enjoy? Creamy, fluffy, and rich chocolate mousse that never fails to impress, this classic recipe is not for the occasional chocolatier- it’s for the chocolate-obsessed French purist that wants the real thing. Quarantine day 3,789. Wake up. Brew favourite black coffee with Aeropress (shout out to European Roasterie in Minnesota for continuing to sell Jamaican Me Crazy…

Breakfast

Best Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins

May 7, 2020
blueberry muffins

These moist, fluffy, fruit-forward buttermilk blueberry muffins are honestly the best you’ll ever have! Perfect with your morning coffee or tea, these little muffins are bursting with fresh blueberries and a touch of cinnamon, so you won’t feel like you’re starting your morning with a sugar bomb.  As I spooned mounds of blueberry muffin batter goodness into tins, my husband hovered eagerly over my shoulder and asked, “So,…

Breakfast

Bacon Chive and Cheese Mélange Scones

April 26, 2020
cheese and bacon scones

As many of you may know, I’m a Minnesota girl through and through. I didn’t really know I was a nut about “the land of 10,000 lakes” until I moved out of state for the first time to Michigan in 2018. In my 20s, I moved around the Twin Cities a lot during undergrad and dental school, but I was always within 30 minutes drive of everything I’d…