Too often I feel like scones get the short end of the stick in the coffee shop scene. Maybe it's because they sit out behind the glass for a little bit too long by the time that they make it into a wax paper bag, ending up just a little too dry and flavorless, unsatisfyingly crumbly, and thus under-appreciated. I'll admit that before I tried making ...
baking
kabocha & maple caramel baked french toast
I've been mostly working from home in these last couple of weeks before the home stretch, but went in to the office last week to wrap up loose ends, take home all the heels that I totally forgot about for the last six months, and to do fun things like meet with my pro bono clients, who got all the adoptive funding we requested! It did mean that ...
fig, goat cheese, & honey biscuits
Evidently, or so I'm told, it's less than a month until a third little bowl is headed our way. What! It doesn't feel like it. From time to time I catch myself assuming that this is just how life is going to be from now on, having a watermelon for a belly, the mysterious inability to ever feel cold, and a maximum waddling velocity of a couple yards ...
tomato-braised eggs and creamy baked polenta
Earlier this summer, I spent a few glorious hours in Venice at The Tasting Kitchen in what felt like an endless parade of dream brunch fare. Before this I'd never had any kind of chef's menu or omakase-type meal, but a group of us opted for their tasting menu (because that seemed like what you should ...
chamoe melon jam & cream cheese pastries
This should probably come as no surprise, but my favorite thing about new places is the new food that I've never had before. Hawaii has had a wealth of these in the years since B2 first brought me to visit, and on our last trip back earlier this summer -- just when I thought I was getting the lay of the land -- B2's mom (as part of her nonstop ...
whole wheat milk bread & little sliders
asparagus, spring pea, & goat cheese quiche
For the first twenty-two or so years of my life, my experience with quiches was limited solely to the miniature frozen variety -- the ones from Costco that came in boxes of half Lorraine and half Florentine (or, in my mind, half yellow and half green), most often bought for my mother's potlucks or just for late-night snacks, pale and anemic until ...
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 ...
lime bars with saffron
The first time I had an Apt. 2B Baking Co. creation was at a picnic in Prospect Park (yep, the same as this one -- it was a very gastronomically exciting day) on the kind of Brooklyn day that would be so welcome right about now -- one of ...
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 ...