gougeres Madam, will you have a gougere? The writer Mary Stewart once described a (fictional) dish as something that "would have tempted an anchorite to break his penance". Mary Stewart was one of a kind; I don't think most of us could get away with writing like that. When I first
dessert By any other name I grew up calling them "butterscotch brownies". They are also called "blond brownies", or "blondies". If you do an Internet search for them, you'll find a dizzying variety of recipes, and not a lot of agreement on what they should be like. I'll put