Bostock or brioche aux amandes is a French pastry — ‘French toast’ — that utilizes day-old brioche topped with frangipane or sweet almond pastry cream. You can use almond meal or almond flour. Almond meal is typically made from ground, raw (unpeeled) almonds, whereas almond flour is made from blanched (peeled) almonds. Thus, almond flour tends … Continue Reading

This smoked cashew-chipotle salsa was something I came across several years ago while having lunch at Empellon in NYC (Ohhh, the memories of dining out, sigh). They offer a selection of seven salsas and the smoked cashew salsa was the one that I vividly remember to this day. Have you tried making plant-based cashew ‘whipped … Continue Reading