I N S P I R E D
often i am asked the questions- when did you start cooking ? how did you become interested in cooking ?
and it goes way back to when my mother gave me a kids cookbook at age 12. my family endured so many dinners of ‘surprise meatloaf’ - you know the one with the hard boiled egg in the middle !
i wish i still had that book.
but i do have the second cookbook i ever owned - and the 19 that followed. it is my faded 20-volume collection of the grande diplome cooking course. i devoured every word and recipe in each book before purchasing the next. my mother matched my $5 for each $9.99 book.
who knew at such a young age i was being taught by anne willan !
even now - with my collection of cookbooks in the hundreds- i still love to browse these pages - and am still inspired by some of the recipes.
take the photo on volume one.
it will look familiar to those of you who dine at our restaurant ASTI Trattoria.
yes ! it is the well loved “chocolate cannoli “
with added cocoa powder to the brandy snap recipe - and chocolate mousse instead of whipped cream.
i tried to change this chocolate dessert once - but it was quickly brought back by popular demand. it has been 10 years running !
thankyou ann willan !
Recent comments