When I first moved to Brooklyn there was only one fancy restaurant in my immediate neighborhood. It was called The New Prospect Cafe and it was on Flatbush, across the street from where the Jamaican Patty place used to be. With its small seasonal menu, it was a harbinger of Brooklyn’s culinary future. When I…
Tag: baking
Lemon Blackberry Wedding Cake (Gluten-Free)
This is a recipe for a 3 tier gluten-free wedding cake to feed 70 guests. We had 100 people at our wedding so we also made a grooms cake as well…basically a separate bottom tier so that there would be enough for everyone. All of the cake was eaten so I guess that we got…
Gluten-Free Cherry Clafouti
Clafouti is a baked fruit custard. It is a French dish that (I feel) was invented by particularly unfussy and homey French people. I love clafouti because it reminds me of a delicious custardy apple cake that my Estonian grandmother used make. She would slice and layer apples into a baking pan and then…
Strawberry Rhubarb Trifle (Gluten-Free)
Trifle is a thing of beauty. It is boozy cake, layered like a parfait with fruit preserves, custard, whipped cream and nuts. It looks gorgeous and tastes amazing. A trifle is an excellent desert make ahead of time when you need to feed a lot of people. It is a British desert (I’ll say it…
Gluten-Free Quiche
My mother has a lot of friends who are boat people. People who built their wooden boat by hand or restored an old fishing boat or catamaran before sailing it to New Zealand, or Fiji or Hawaii. She married one of them when I was nine (my dad John Berry). I wholeheartedly approved of the…
Better gluten-free popovers
I posted a recipe for gluten-free popovers in the post A Menu in Honour of Broccoli Soup. I’ve been experimenting, and I think that this recipe is better. It uses Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free flour mix (Garbanzo, fava bean, tapioca and sourghum flours with potato starch) instead of the rice, tapioca and potato mix…
Big Sis Little Dish 