Now that you’ve got the pastry under your belt, onto the good stuff! My market dictates that I use either apples, plums or nectarines but nectarines are the way to go for me as my friend Elaine has ...
Claudia’s Basic “You Can Do It!” Pastry Recipe
When I was getting married, my mother said ‘There are two things you need to know how to make: one is pastry and the other is a bechamel sauce’. And you know what? She was right. Those two things ...
Bottling summer tomatoes
Temperatures are soaring, every day in the upper 30s. It is a very hot summer in Turkey this year and I am loving it. The tomatoes are just beautiful: big, fat, red, ripened to perfection under ...