So now you know about the blueberries and cream muffins, which upon reflection, I might add, are a whole lot better than I gave them credit for. No, they are not the lofty and spreading muffins of which I eternally seek, but if those Counterculture muffins are the disfunctional boyfriend that one might have subversive…
blueberries and cream muffins
There have been two culinary opportunities in my life that I have really blown. Wait, now that I’m really thinking about it, there are more than two, but there are two that I just can’t seem to let go of.The first was in Morocco. It’s hard for me to show you this, because I’m really…
plum coffee cake
Yesterday, it was dry and beautiful, and Molly and Aurel invited us over to dinner with their various visiting families. I bought perfect plums at the market with the intention of making something sweet and plummy for desert. The first part of the afternoon was spent just admiring the plums. In the end I decided…
early tomatoes
The farm always has the first tomatoes of the summer. Elizabeth starts them early, and grows them in the ground in the greenhouse. People are so excited to see them at the farmer’s market. Tomatoes? This early? You didn’t grow them, did you? they ask. What do they think, that she bought them at Big…
banana bread
When I was little, my mother used to tell me about my greatness a lot. I was never spoiled materially, but if there is a way to spoil with love or confidence, I’m certainly a result. But if material spoiling is a rancid milk sort of thing, I’d like to think that the other kind…
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