So far this summer, I’ve made strawberry, strawberry rhubarb, blackberry, blackberry raspberry nectarine, and blueberry. I’m dragging my feet big time in the kitchen when it comes to recipe testing for this new book, but I swear I’d make a pie every single day if I had the berries to fill them. It is my…
mochi ice cream cake
Last week as I was making Rosie’s requested birthday dinner, I did the thing I often do: I made some very strange mistakes. At first, years back, it seemed like a fluke. Maybe I was tripling a recipe when I shouldn’t have, or (as usual), I was crushing under a time pressure. But at this point it’s…
grapefruit ginger curd
I’m on a curd bender, so I wanted to make sure there was PLENTY of curd on the site. This is a recipe that ran in a column I wrote for a local website, and I thought it should live here, too. It went up on that site exactly a year ago and this year…
a simple apple cake
My editor once told me that she has to bake immediately upon returning from a trip. It doesn’t matter how much laundry and unpacking I’m supposed to be doing, she told me as she fed me a buttermilk cake at one of our meetings. I need the kitchen to know that I’m back. We had quite a…
dispatches from pie land
Joey makes me valentines in February, and I make him fruit pies in July. It keeps the peace. And so I’ve gotten better at pie. Passable, at least. This last week, our whole world has filled with black raspberries. I made a bunch of batches of pie crust at once (so easy with this recipe),…
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