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…
morning buns
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…
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…
braised rhubarb with rosé and ginger
I’m having a very particular conversation with my garden this year. If I had known who I would be 10 years after moving into my house, if I had known what I would love and what I would want, I might have listened to friends and experts and every article in Mother Earth News and I would…
whole grain mornings (and a giveaway)
Trying to decide what I’m going to make for Christmas morning every year is a lot like trying to decide how I’m going to cook my turkey. In both cases, I have no tradition, no surety about the way it has to be. On the night before Thanksgiving, I’m still holding a box of salt…
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