Lost Recipe — Recette égarée

July 10, 2008

I cannot believe that I lost my recipe.

This is what happens when you have too many pieces of paper lying around everywhere in the house, amongst other things. One day, you get tired of the pieces of paper everywhere — and the other things too — and that same day, you decide to change this and you start collecting all the pieces that you plan to toss in a bin. It will make you feel lighter.

Less clutter, more air to breathe.

But a few days later, you realize that you cannot locate the recipe you had jotted down quickly while baking. So you start panicking a little.

Then you realize that the recipe must have been written on one of the many culprit pieces of paper that were lying everywhere in the house, only a few days before.

So you sigh and think for a minute. You remember that you used yogurt, lime juice, berries, poppy seeds and canola oil instead of butter. Thank God, parts of your brain are still functioning normally.

Yes, right.

You have to bake the cakes yet another time.

So that you can share it with your readers. And its full story too.

N’est-ce pas ?

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  1. Your house sounds like my house… The picture looks beautiful. We can taste those lovely cakes with our eyes et ils ont l’air tres bon.:-)

    Comment by Alexa — On July, 10th, 2008 at 8:27 am

  2. wow~ yummy!

    Comment by YOYO's Cooking — On July, 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am

  3. sorry to hear about the lost recipe. I hope you can remember it.

    Comment by kat — On July, 10th, 2008 at 8:42 am

  4. Bummer. It’s a pain when that happens. It forced me to get organised. On a weekly basis I do my meal planning before shopping. All recipes are then typed/printed and put into a folder. The folder is always in the kitchen when I’m cooking and have to look something up. Problem solved. :-)

    Comment by Michelle — On July, 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am

  5. That’s strange… At my place it’s exactely the same, pieces of paper and handwritten recipies everywhere (not to mention cookbooks and food magasines I don’t even properly read aymore) Oh by the way, I saw you strawberry cover while musing around in a bookstore in aurillac… and I immediately recognized it as yours! ;-) )

    Comment by cavoletto — On July, 10th, 2008 at 9:40 am

  6. Perhaps an accordion file might have helped, as Michelle said. Even without categories (since we know that P. hates categories). At least the recipe was not lost in your memory!

    Comment by rekha — On July, 10th, 2008 at 9:42 am

  7. Boo on no recipe but that is a truly stunning shot.

    Comment by peabody — On July, 10th, 2008 at 9:44 am

  8. moi aussi je me rend compte que j’ai beaucoup trop de papiers dans la cuisine!!!

    J’ai étée frappée par la photos, et j’attend la deuxieme réalisation, elle sera mieux que la prémière!

    Comment by Elvira — On July, 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am

  9. i can totally relate to the paper thing. that feeling of dread is awful, especially because you thought you were doing something good by trying to straighten up. and then your thoughts race to, maybe its still in the trash!

    Comment by Corynne — On July, 10th, 2008 at 10:15 am

  10. Eh bien, je suis désolée pour toi et c’est bien dommage pour nous car ça m’a l’air drôlement bon! Mais je crois que c’est assez fréquent, enfin je l’espère car moi, je suis plutôt du genre distraite et j’en suis encore au stade où je me dis que ce n’est pas trop grave!!

    Comment by pompelpot — On July, 10th, 2008 at 11:55 am

  11. Ha, why does it feel so familiar? ;) Good luck with finding the lost recipe!

    Comment by Nicoletta — On July, 10th, 2008 at 12:33 pm

  12. bea, your photos are enough for me…

    Comment by Aran — On July, 10th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

  13. You have a nice blog…keep up the good job:)

    Comment by Sorina — On July, 10th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  14. I am convinced that somewhere there is a pile of all the things that have gone missing — papers, single socks, theater tickets, reuseable coffee cups….

    Comment by Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) — On July, 10th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  15. Good for afternoon tea!

    Comment by mycookinghut — On July, 10th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

  16. Tiens, tu me rappelles encore quelqu’un toi… Ne serais-tu pas Gémeau toi aussi?

    Comment by Miss Diane — On July, 10th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

  17. that just happened to me recently. it makes you feel so sad. But, tell me, were they baked in brioche molds?

    Comment by maybelles mom (feeding maybelle) — On July, 10th, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  18. Your magazine cover is amazing–i was wondering if you write for magazines as well or if you only recipe and photograph?

    Comment by mallory elise — On July, 10th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

  19. oh no! lost recipe! but your photos are so beautiful and amazing as always. you inspire me!

    Comment by LINA — On July, 10th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

  20. wow, what a gorgeous set of little cakes. i was hoping this was only a joke and the recipe would be at the end! these look way too pretty not to try!

    Comment by mimi — On July, 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm

  21. je me reconnais tellement là!! Le pire, c’est que j’ai acheté un grand cahier exprès pour prendre des notes à chaque fois que je teste une recette, mais il suffit que j’ai un bout de papier devant moi et que le cahier n’est pas à proximité, et je recommence à griffonner sur les bouts de papier! Il y a tellement de recettes à tester, tellement de possibilités, tu oublieras vite cette recette égarée pour passer à une autre, sûrement tout aussi bonne ;)

    Comment by sandra avital — On July, 11th, 2008 at 5:46 am

  22. Comme c’est contrariant de perdre une recette ! ça m’est déjà arrivé et c’est parfois très dure de la reconstituer. En tout cas, ils sont superbes

    Comment by eglantine — On July, 11th, 2008 at 6:25 am

  23. My reason for keeping recipes on my computer in a file called “FOOD”. If I had done it years ago (alas, I had no computer then) I would still have the original recipe for Chocolate Mousse Pie that was published in Bon Appetit Magazine 1992. Epicurious has another version of the recipe but it does not include the instructions for the Chocolate Leaves that decorated the finished cake and the recipe as I remember it is not the same.

    Comment by Donna — On July, 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am

  24. They look delicious and I’m partial to anything with poppyseeds,

    Comment by janie — On July, 11th, 2008 at 9:10 am

  25. That is so something that would happen to me. My problem is jotting them down, but not writing what they are on the paper – then I end up with ten pieces of paper with lists of ingredients – and trying to figure out what it is for from that. They look great though!

    Comment by Holly — On July, 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am

  26. mmmm…. looks good!

    Comment by Clay — On July, 11th, 2008 at 11:40 am

  27. One of the most photos I have ever seen.

    Comment by Patricia Scarpin — On July, 11th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

  28. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve panicked while rummaging through my recipe box, unable to find my precious chocolate chip cookie recipe. I hope you can recreate it; the photo is beautiful.

    Speaking of your photos, I’m sure you get this all the time, but I get a lot of inspiration from your food photos. I just started my blog, Cooking Single, in February. Since I found yours I have truly seen an improvement in my pictures. So, thank you!

    Comment by Julia — On July, 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

  29. S’agit-il de la recette des “Lemongrass, Vanilla and Red Currant Cakes” ? J’ai copié une de tes nombreuses recettes et s’il s’agit de ce ces cakes, je l’ai !!!!
    En tout cas, sur la photo, ça y ressemble. Je peux t’envoyer et la photo et la recette ! Mais, dans la recette, il n’y a pas de yaourt….

    Comment by Mestari — On July, 11th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

  30. They look familiar.. like your famous tea cakes.

    I understand what you mean.. these days, with modern technology, we come across so many recipes from the NET and sometimes, when I want to bake ‘that’ cake or recipe, I can’t for the life of me remember which folder I saved it in. And it doesn’t help when we have 3 computers in the house!!

    Recently, I’ve been copying and pasting your recipes so that I can print them out and not go through that torture of searching for it. I find that deciding on which cake takes up the most time!!

    Good job you’re doing here. Thank you. I enjoyed reading about your visit to France to see your brother. What bliss to get away!

    Comment by Angela — On July, 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

  31. Ahah! That spunds all to familiar. Lately the dining room table has been renamed “Helen’s recipe file folder” !
    Great shot!

    Comment by Tartelette — On July, 11th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

  32. Thank goodness you remembered to take some photos as those little cakes do look delicious! :)

    Comment by LyB — On July, 12th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  33. It’s good that you’ve remembered the recipe. It’s a nice presentation. I loved it!
    http://www.foodista.com/

    Comment by Mr. Sound — On July, 13th, 2008 at 3:35 am

  34. Thos cakes look so pretty. What do you bake them in to give them the fluted shape? I have just acquired some canola oil, so I need to try your recipe.

    Sue

    Comment by Sue Bone — On July, 13th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

  35. Le pire, c’est quand je pense compter sur ma mémoire, lors de tests ou d’ajustements de recettes au fur et à mesure de la préparation, selon la consistance et le goût. J’oublie de noter. Et j’en oublie ma recette.
    Quant aux papiers volants… j’en ai perdu la recette de pâté Lorrain de mon grand père !

    Comment by Sha — On July, 14th, 2008 at 10:41 am

  36. [...] and guess what, some of you were so right! I’ve found the cake recipe again, in a pile of papers that, Thank God, I did not get rid [...]

    Pingback by Les fruits rouges by La Tartine Gourmande — On July, 15th, 2008 at 6:11 am

  37. Does this mean that we may still see the recipe in the future?????

    Comment by DShore95 — On July, 15th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

  38. Bea,
    I like it when I can spot items we share in common – like the flower shaped cupcake molds and the brown cafe cups in your last post. Of course that just means I’m envious of all your other props that I don’t have!!! You use them so beautifully to accent your creations!

    Comment by Anita — On July, 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm

  39. Many thanks everyone. And yes, they were baked in brioche molds.

    Comment by Béa — On July, 18th, 2008 at 6:45 am

  40. Hi Bea.. sometimes I don’t read and just look at pictures. That allows me to imagine what you’re saying… Im either way off mark or somewhere close! Either way, it’s great…

    Comment by Bren@Flanboyant Eats — On July, 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm

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