Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

Auspicious Beginnings

January 2, 2009 By 7 Comments

On the first of January 2009 I found myself searching an external hard drive trying to find a photo, at first I couldn’t find the folder and was starting to panic, after a bit of digging I found the folder but not the photo… While searching through this folder I found another, one that had [...]

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This Chocolate Chip Scone Has A Secret

April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Scones, so light, so flaky, so delicious, any time of day. I learned the basic recipe used here when I took a six Saturday baking course at The French Culinary institute in NYC. I’ve played with the recipe in order to come up with this version. Tweet

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Jazzy Chazzie’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Oatmeal Cookies, they’re good for you, really! So is chocolate, here I meld them together. This recipe takes another turn later on, this is the ‘basic goodness’ version the ‘amazing added antioxidant version’ will be posted at a later date. Tweet

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Peanut Butter Brownie Chunk Cheesecake with Chocolate Ganache

April 29, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Where do you find inspiration? Sometimes it’s just sitting there waiting for you to see it. I wanted to make a new cheesecake and was trying to come up with ideas for ideas, after the mango-saffron I was having trouble coming up with ideas. Standing at my baking island, I opened the spice drawer and [...]

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Vanilla Cheesecake with Chocolate Sauce

April 29, 2007 By 5 Comments

This is the one that started it all with the cheesecakes. It began it’s life as as a plain cheesecake recipe stolen borrowed from Martha Stewart. I made some variations and settled on this as being the best, all the other flavors that I make came from this base. Tweet

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