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Home | Brooke Parkhurst

Brooke Parkhurst

Brooke is a recovering restaurant pastry chef and former bakery owner who, when stressed out, likes to decompress by trying “Great British Bake Off” technical challenges! In spite of this quirk, she’s a huge fan of simple cakes and home-style desserts. She also loves making Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern dishes as well as just about anything with pork. Basically, she can be found happily puttering in the kitchen whenever she has a spare moment.

She and her wife live in rural Northern Maryland and enjoy the scenery and the local farms.

Brooke Parkhurst
A cherry tomato, asparagus, and herbed ricotta tart on parchment on a baking sheet

Cherry Tomato, Asparagus, and Herbed Ricotta Tart

50 mins

A blue and white bowl filled with velvet chicken and spinach soup

Velvet Chicken and Spinach Soup

1 hr

Mocha walnut torte on a white plate with 2 pieces sliced and 1 piece missing.

Dorie Greenspan’s Mocha Walnut Torte

3 hrs

A table with colourful napkins, a plate with a slice of pie , a cup of coffee, and a yellow pie plate with a chocolate buttermilk pie that's missing one slice.

Chocolate Buttermilk Pie

2 hrs 30 mins

A wooden tray with 4 squares of double butterscotch blondies, with nuts sprinkled around them.

Double Butterscotch Blondies

50 mins

A ceramic bowl of butter chicken garnished with cilantro, beside a fork, a bowl of rice, and a plate of naan bread.

Butter Chicken

1 hr 10 mins

A cast-iron skillet filled with a tomato ricotta pie, one slice missing. Next to it, a white plate with a half eaten slice of pie.

Tomato Ricotta Pie

2 hrs 5 mins

A metal sheet pan filled with lemon ginger chicken legs and thighs with shallots and lemon slices.

Lemon Ginger Chicken

7 hrs 10 mins

Several bakery style chocolate chip cookies cooling on a rack.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 d 45 mins

A stack of five lemon, thyme, and sea-salt shortbreads on a wooden board with a dish of sea salt and a lemon beside them.

Savory Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Thyme

1 hr 20 mins

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