Burnt Almond Torte and Copycat Recipe
Different regions prefer certain pastries, baked goods. Burnt Almond Torte is popular in Pittsburgh. I’ve seen it as a wedding cake. tiered! Who brought the recipe here I don’t know but many...
View ArticlePies on a Rack Headed into Schorr’s Bakery, West View PA
It was a really hot day Friday. Standing at the PNC MAC machine, I looked to the left. A rack of pies, an open truck, Margi the owner of old fashioned, classic, timeless Schorr Bakery – “Be Sure At...
View ArticleJean-Marc Chatellier’s French Bakery in Millvale PA
Crossed the Allegheny River to go to Millvale. After I went to Panza’s to pick up Joan’s painting I had reframed, I went to get some brioche and a loaf of crusty bread from Jean-Marc Chatellier’s...
View ArticleHand Held Rotary Egg Beaters and Cupcake Display at DOZEN Bakeshop
My mother had a hand held egg beater. Cupcakes are all the rage. These are $2.50 each. You can order Valentine Cupcakes now. Different flavors posted on a chalkboard. One was made with some East End...
View ArticleVincenzo Displays Easter Breads in Preparation for Sunday
Pasticceria Rocco. 243 Bleecker Street. When Mary and I had our hot cross buns and cappuccino, this nice young man gave me a detailed tour of the pastries in all the glass cases. He knew I was from...
View ArticleGoogle Pittsburgh
When we first lived in Pittsburgh and Matthew played baseball in Mellon Park across the street from Bakery Square we could smell the aroma of baking. Crackers, cookies, it was the NABISCO Factory built...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Today
Two friends from work (JS) and (MK) alerted me it is National Donut Day. Or is it Doughnut? It is the 75th one so where have I been all these years? I usually get that kind of info from Foodimentary...
View ArticleI Begged My Mother to Buy It When I Was a Kid
My mother was into homemade whole wheat bread with wheat germ added. She’d scald milk, boil water, crumble a cake of yeast. Knead and knead, place it in an oiled bowl, cover with a tea towel, let...
View ArticleNew York City Sweet Tooth
French Tourists Outside The Magnolia Bakery I really wanted to photograph the line outside the bakery. When we went there on Saturday evening there were customers but no line. My sister loves me a...
View ArticleLittle Italy Days Bloomfield Neighborhood, Pittsburgh PA
Saturday afternoon I went to Little Italy Days in Bloomfield with my friend V and this evening I went over with Steve. The street was blocked off and it was quite festive. Can’t put up the aromas of...
View ArticleBakery Window Reflections in NYC
from last summer when I visited my sister Which would you choose? Filed under: Photography Tagged: bakery, cupcakes, Italian Bakery, New York City, photography, postaday, reflections
View ArticleWindows 3 – Connie, Esther’s Hobby, Olga, Poet’s House, Oakmont Bakery, View...
Weekly Photo Challenge Theme: Windows Making the theme last all week? I photograph a lot of windows. Here is another gallery New York City Chumley’s Historic Pub After the Fire Esther’s...
View ArticleTartelette aux Framboises and Dark Chocolate Royal
We made an evening run for me to pick up something at Target. Little plastic containers for soup. On the way to the parking lot, Steve asked me if I could drive by his work so he could get something...
View ArticleWeekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Inside egg Excuses Kitchen Pot of Chili Snow Yard from the Kitchen Carnegie Music Hall Pittsburgh PA Center for the Arts Wedding – Marc and Roberta Refrigerator Bloomfield Window...
View ArticleStrawberry Rhubarb Preserves Evoke Memories
A bolt of lightning knocked out the internet so blogging from my phone Rhubarb says Spring to me. When the three kids were younger, we’d pile in the car and drive 7 hours to New York City to visit my...
View ArticleOram’s Donuts in Joe Namath’s Hometown – Beaver Falls, PA
More than a decade ago I saw a show narrated by Rick Sebak on PBS about Oram’s Bakery in Beaver Falls, PA. Beaver Falls is about 35 miles Northwest of the city and is on the Beaver River. ( I just...
View ArticlePatron Saint of Bakers and Pastry Chefs – Saint Honoré
Honoratus of Amiens (who died in 600) . The Feast Day is May 16th but no matter. The nice woman at Jean-Marc Chatellier Bakery in Millvale said “Saint Honoré” when I asked. Here he is, carved from...
View ArticleLast Day of Summer Vacation Before School Starts
I need to gather up my knitting bag, the computer bag and the camera bag- pack the suitcase- load the car. And the grocery bag with the sock monkeys that the girls helped me stuff but still need to be...
View ArticleSunday’s Second Collection
Down by the Ohio River. An eclectic gallery. The back of a big stop sign. The Byzantine Church from McKees Rocks Bottoms, too, where the bells were ringing Sunday. A stop at La Gourmandine Bakery on...
View ArticleUnexpected Find at Panza Gallery
Millvale, PA is just across the Allegheny River. Steve and I eat out at Grant Bar Grant Avenue some nights. If you follow the blog you’ve been to Millvale with me, Jean-Marc Chatellier’s Bakery for...
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