For as long as I can remember, hazelnut coffee has been my dad's way to start the day. Almost every day of my childhood and every day that I'm back home now, I've come downstairs in the morning to find him sitting in our sunny breakfast nook, already up for hours, with an oversized mug of coffee in his hand and a newspaper spread out on the table, ...
desserts
rosemary citrus bundt cake
My first introduction to this cake came on a brisk evening last April, in the form of a cheerful crowd of teeny baby Bundts at the launch party for Sweeter Off the Vine, the cookbook it comes from. The spread there, all baked by the inimitable Yossy herself, might have been one of the most delicious arrays of baked goods I've ever been privy to, ...
custardy crème fraîche apple pie
What a strange, hard week this has been. It feels like it has been hard in every sense of the word -- difficult, unyielding. I hope everyone is okay. This is the first of a number of recipes I've had saved up for these first few baby-filled months, and, thankfully, it is so very easy. I think "easy" was going to be my mantra in the kitchen for ...
oatmeal lace ice cream
Overwhelmingly, pregnancy thus far has been a much more peaceful experience than I ever thought it would be. This isn't to say that it's been a total walk in the park (in case you've had or are having a rough one!) but before it all happened, I had fearful visions of hugging the toilet, or raging at B2, or doing both at the same time, nonstop for ...
jasmine-honeydew sorbet
Dear diary. Dear everyone. On Sunday, I had my very first cup of coffee in four months. !!! To be fair, I think it was about two tablespoons of coffee in a cup of milk and a boatload of sugar, so it tasted more like melted coffee ice cream than coffee, but I'm going to say it counts. It was the most exciting moment of my Sunday. Or July. I ...
london fog cupcakes
I think I read awhile back (while in the throes of grief that the closest Crumbs shop to me was closing down) that cupcakes have been on a little bit of a roller coaster in the last few years, embarking on a wild ascent from supermarket-only to trendy to out-of-your-mind popular before being ousted from their throne by donuts. Something like that? ...
orange-almond sweet rolls with basil glaze
Happy first week of spring! With how mild our winter has been this year, it doesn’t feel real that it should be spring already, but here we are. (And it's supposed to be sunshine-y and 70 degrees today!) Still, for the lingering blustery days we've been having here and there, I thought one more batch of soft, squishy sweet rolls, maybe for an ...
chamomile lemon poppy seed loaf cake
If you couldn't tell from this blog, B2 and I are about the unfanciest people in the world. Most of the time, being a lawyer is just as unfancy (and for me generally consists of (a) sitting at a desk, (b) clicking things on a screen, and (c) wondering what on earth I'm doing). But every once in a blue moon, our firms decide to celebrate something ...
fig jam & goat cheese thumbprint cookies
We're in Hawaii! I had a filing the night before that kept me in the office about a million hours later than I expected, we packed half the things we meant to pack and none of our laundry, but we made it on the plane (I think I set a new record for the most hours I've or anyone has ever slept on a single flight) and now I'm sitting at B2's family's ...
peppermint mochi
Oh man, it's been not-enough-hours-in-the-day days around here lately. Most of the time it is safe to ignore me when I say that because I spend about half my waking hours huffing to B2 about the "million things I have to do" and then the other half of those hours on the couch doing zero of those things until it is too late to do them, but for ...
