Welcome to my blog,

In a nutshell, this site seeks to find the very best recipes of a certain type, to try them and to separate the outstanding ones from the good and very good. My hope is that I can find recipes that are so good they seduce your senses and send you off to dream land. I’ve been doing this privately for a while, but since I am doing this publicly now, I will be more rigorous in my method and will eventually retest my favorites to date against the newcomers.

The initial focus will be on popular classic baked goods such as chocolate chip cookies and brownies and if you encourage me I will broaden my scope to include main courses.

Since there can be hundreds and even thousands of recipes of a given type, candidates will be selected based on highly positive reviews and comments from the bigger recipe sites, foodie blogger sites, cookie/brownie quest sites, newspaper articles and top rated baking and bakery books.

With respect to taste testing, my wife Sandra and I will be the main tasters and when available, my son Marc (age 24) and daughter Natalie (22) and some close friends will also join in. Now in the end, if things are close we will test or retest with bigger groups. I’m really hoping the leading recipes will be way ahead otherwise this will be very subjective. When things are too close to call, I will just say so and try and express differences in such a way that you can pick your favorite.

Pierre.