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…
how to make just enough cake
At our house, cake season stretches from February through April, from Rosie’s birthday through Sadie’s (with Joey’s in between). It parallels dirty-piles-of-icy snow season, which is fortunate, because the cake helps. I’m not particularly good at making birthday cakes, but I love to do it anyway. I like frostings with not much sugar, so often…
good enough to wish on
The first birthday cake I ever made was for my friend Jen’s thirtieth birthday. I’m not sure where I found the confidence to make that first cake, but Jen had just given me a scale for my birthday, and that, along with The King Arthur Baking Companion she’d given me for the birthday before, made me feel equipped. She…
not for now but for later
Because it’s now that I’m here and I write, this list will live in this place, not for now but for later. Not for today, when just tonight at 8:08, we cheered and said hooray! It’s been a decade, 10 whole years! since you came twirling into the world. Not tonight, when we ate lemon…
eclairs
Tomorrow is Rosie’s birthday, but because tomorrow is a school day and then I have an extra long selectboard meeting (I know, I know–my term is almost over), we decided that we’d officially change the day to last Friday and she could be the boss of the day. She wanted to go skiing. And then…
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