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Translated as “heart with cream,” coeur à la crème fraîche takes planning and a small bit of special effort to prepare, but, as with so many good and effortful endeavors, it rewards the care it demands. We love this recipe with red sugared berries for a Valentine’s Day dessert, but it is gorgeous with any seasonal berry (we’re already thinking ahead to blackberry season next August!) and perhaps a thin cookie or two. (more…)
Baking is a meditative art. Unlike cooking, baking doesn’t reward the slapdash choice, the inspired switch, the last-minute ingredient. Rather, baking finds its highest art when accompanied by thoughtfulness and attention. As we near Valentine’s Day, we take the leap to suggest that, like baking, so too does love benefit from thoughtfulness and attention. And how about this: Baking is really its own form of love. (more…)