Hello, world! (Insert visual of an opening window, a head cautiously peering out) It’s been a little bit since we’ve posted here. Life (a pandemic, jobs, apartments, cities, friends, etc.) happens! But fear not, we are still cooking lots and lots. Last winter, we spent the entire time from Thanksgiving through early January at our…
Blood Orange & Cookie Crumble Ice Cream Sundae
Back in February, we came home for Presidents’ Day weekend, craving some quiet family time away from the busy cities we live in. We made these amazing sundaes with vanilla ice cream, blood orange compote, crumbled Oreo-style cookies, buttered & salted almonds, and hot fudge. This sundae was loosely inspired by the creative daily sundaes…
Burrata with Snap Peas & Mint
Earlier, I (Celine) was randomly checking an old post on this blog. While admiring the picture of liege waffles on the homepage, I realized…woah! It’s been over a year since we’ve posted here. A lot has happened this past year. Leah and I both graduated from college. I’m currently in a full-time volunteer program at…
Great Pizza
It seems that every time we post here on the blog these days, we lament that it has “been far too long!” The same is true this time around. Senior year has been the biggest whirlwind, but it has also been wonderful and so fun. We are keeping busy spending time with friends, periodically cooking…
Baked Brie with Cranberry Sauce and Hazelnuts
It’s so interesting to consider what people are eating across the world at any given mealtime. Today we had our “main meal” for lunch rather than at dinner and we were wondering how many people were also eating baked brie with cranberry sauce and mushroom bourguignon. Probably not too many! Leah and I are trying to…
Take-Home Chocolate Cake
How to make the perfect chocolate cake: Purchase Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s new cookbook, Sweet. This cookbook is a work of art. Alluring exotic fruits and colors splash and ripple across each page, but if you are not in the mood for a fruit dessert, you might be in the mood for the dark…
New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies
We are no strangers to chocolate chip cookies–over the years since we first started baking, we’ve tried out so many recipes. A freshly baked chocolate chip cookie is probably both of our favorite desserts, and our younger brothers are equally obsessed! Our favorite everyday recipes include, more recently, this and, formerly, this; both are great. Sometimes, though,…
Rhubarb Upside-Down Spice Cake
The very first time I had rhubarb, Leah and I were about ten years old and we were at a family reunion sometime in the summer. One of our aunts, who happens to be a wonderful cook, made a strawberry-rhubarb crisp. At the time I’d never eaten rhubarb before. I’m not sure what prompted me to…
Magical Paris, Magical Food
As usually happens, it’s been far too long since we’ve found the time to write a blog post. As we begin to approach the last days of junior year, things just seem to continue getting busier! But we haven’t forgotten our love for food and cooking, of course. We’re both looking forward to having kitchens in our…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Layer Cake
Our brother Luke turns sweet 16 during the first week of September, and since we’ll be away at college on the actual day, we decided to celebrate early with an ultra-sweet dessert. After looking through our many cookbooks and baking books, he gave a pretty low-maintenance request: something with chocolate and peanut butter. We’d had…
We Like Two Cook 