Cooking class in Tuscany

Raspberry Rhubarb Bars

Most fruit bars use butter. These use coconut oil, and the difference is real. The oat crust is crunchier and lighter, and there is a faint coconut flavour underneath the raspberry and rhubarb filling. Rolled oats, flour, coconut sugar, baking soda, salt, and melted coconut …

Grilled Peach Salsa

Most salsas try to do too much. Fifteen ingredients, three types of pepper, a paragraph of instructions. This one uses five things: ripe peaches split and grilled flesh-side down until they have grill marks, then diced and mixed with finely chopped red onion, jalapeno, fresh …

Strawberries and Mint

Not everything needs a recipe. Strawberries macerated with a little sugar and torn fresh mint is one of those things that becomes more than its parts without requiring any actual cooking. Thirty minutes of sitting is all it takes. The sugar draws out the juice, …

Financiers with Summer Fruits

What makes a financier different from a regular almond cake? Brown butter. You melt the butter over low heat until it turns light brown and smells like toasted nuts, and that nuttiness carries through the entire cake. Without it, a financier is just a small, …