Don’t be fooled. This humble chocolate tart is packed with enough potential to turn even the most chocolate-disciplined person into a dessert-ivore. So much more that is so easy and fast - if you read my previous post on baking short crust sweet pastry tart shells and you have two or three of them in the freezer.

How to make Croissants - in honor of my culinary hero Julia Child - and the Julie and Julia movie release on August 7 about her life.

One of the recipes I recall from early childhood in Romania was one that my Grandmother, Mom and virtually everyone would make on a warm summer afternoon - as an enchanting snack, the eggplant dip.
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Video recipe about how to make Mamaliga (also known as Polenta)