Tag: cocoa

• Chocolate and Honey Fig Cake

  My grandparents have a fig tree near their garden in Switzerland. It is large, impassive to the treasures it holds, entrancing. Its leaves, elegant and waving green, shade little purple parcels of fig. It takes a measure of patience to watch the fruit ripen. When it does, it is perfect: floral, woodsy, dusk-colored and heady.…

  Chaya

  September 5, 2018

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• Salted Chocolate Tahini Tarts

  Around two years ago, I went through a phase where I was seriously obsessed with tahini. I’d discovered that it was good for more than just drizzling over falafel, and for some still unfathomable reason, I deemed it necessary to put it on everything, in everything. I mixed it with honey and and yogurt. I poured it…

  Chaya

  February 7, 2018

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• Chocolate Pavlovas With Lavender Cream & Strawberries

  Exciting news: I chewed today! For the first time in two months! As soon as my doctor gave me the go-ahead, I started thinking of what I’d have first: sushi? Pizza? God, I’d been dreaming of pizza. But he quickly brought me back down to earth. I have to start with soft foods as my…

  Chaya

  April 20, 2016

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• Chocolate & Walnut Meringue Cookies

  These cookies are my Bubby’s. They are her specialty, her legacy. No family gathering is complete without them, and special occasions are marked by the presence of these, tangible signs of her love. At family events, my cousins and I gather around a tray of these cookies and chat about life while snacking on them…

  Chaya

  December 4, 2015

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• {Gluten Free} Triple Chocolate Almond Biscotti + An Anecdote

  

  “Let’s bake!” I tell my little sister and she runs right up, beaming. It’s not often that I invite her to work with me; I prefer to bake in solitude, keeping the messes small and the techniques flawless. But today, I want to spend time with her. I will not care about any spilled milk,…

  Chaya

  April 3, 2015

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• Double Chocolate Donuts with Raspberry Glaze & Pomegranate Salt

  Do you know what the sweetest type of food is? Food that’s made with love. When every ingredient is saturated with wholesomeness, when every step is done with care- brown the butter, crystalize the sugar, sear until crispy- that’s when food tastes good. Sometimes I lose sight of that objective. It becomes about perfection, and while…

  Chaya

  February 11, 2015

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• Everyday Chocolate Cake

  What’s an everyday chocolate cake? I’ll tell you. It’s the sort of cake you reach for when there’s snow outside, when the work’s piling up and the night is too dark. It’s the sort of cake that meshes with the mundane, lying low in its simplicity and making up for it in taste. It’s the…

  Chaya

  January 15, 2015

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