If you’ve been around here for a while, you may be familiar with the white whale that Christmas morning cinnamon buns have been for me. The texture, the timing, the ease! I think I’ve imagined that if I could just find it, then I’d be able to stop chasing after the holiday. Small thing, I…
the upside
If you were worried that there wouldn’t be anything to get up and knead and roll and shape in your quiet-morning-everyone-is-sleeping-or-watching-cartoons kitchen, no need. Here you go. We’ve got scones! Way back when the sun shone and we wore T-shirts (Summer, Fall? I can’t remember–all I see now is cold), I did a sauerkraut demonstration…
how to bake (with a recipe and gifts for you): part 1
Last Friday, I woke up and made maple scones. The girls were home because it was parent conference day, and they rolled out of bed before I did and tucked themselves onto the couch with the third Harry Potter movie. And so, with the dramatic tones of the HP theme as my background (warring, of…
apple bread
Last week, on the day I got this apple bread to just the place I wanted it, I tumbled into the house with the girls post-school and prepared myself to clear off the counters and do the dishes so that I could photograph a few neat slices of the bread on a clean, well-placed plate,…
coconut loaf
This week, my grandmother Shirley would have been 86. I can never remember her actual birthday, and so I give her the whole week, and, like some Pagan goddess, she presides over this always charged and wild time of the end of August, the end of summer, and the beginning of new routined life, whatever…
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