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,…
plum tart
More plums? More sweets? We could have worse things to complain about I’m sure. But I promise there will be other food soon, and I promise we’ve been eating other things too. In fact for those of you who need savory today and can fly without a recipe, there was a pretty good soup over…
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…
zucchini cocoa nib muffins
I’ve told this story before, but here I am again with the story in my head and my eyes on the oven, so here we go. Ten years ago now, I worked at a little cafe in Santa Fe. As far as I know, it’s still there, and it’s still wonderful. Each morning in the…
the thicket
Last week, in the midst of a day filled with other things, my phone buzzed. I read: “Blackberries galore and we are leaving for maine…please pick but be warned of jungle conditions. Boots a must. Berries delish.” This is not the first time a day has been overthrown by a berry message from this particular…
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