seasonal eats + sweet treats

  • August 11, 2017

    White Peach, Gooseberry and Spelt Pie

    To bottle summer- to capture its fleeting spirit- pie. Always pie. It starts with a good, flaky crust. It contains the prettiest of summer’s bounty. Hopefully, maybe if you are lucky, it is made at dusk, when the air is thick and the fireflies are dancing. Maybe, if you are like me, a midnight baker, […]

  • August 4, 2017

    Herbed Wild Salmon with Roasted Summer Vegetables

    My new job as a baker means lots of new side effects! Here are some of them: 1. Muscles! Whereas I couldn’t even lift one initially, I can now carry 50 lb. bags of flour across a room without breaking a sweat. Progress! 2. Back pain! Or stiff joints/tense shoulders/tense everything. Professional baking is like […]

  • July 28, 2017

    Cornmeal Shortcakes with Roasted Apricots & Whipped Ricotta

    This recipe comes with a story. It’s slightly embarrassing. The usual. You know. I started by roasting the apricots. They were overripe, losing their resistance at the seams. I rubbed them with vanilla sugar and thyme and stuffed them into the oven. Soon, their blissful scent permeated the kitchen. As they roasted, I pulled out […]

  • July 21, 2017

    Poached Eggs & Avocado Toast

    There is beauty in the poaching of an egg, in the way it swirls gently into togetherness. Water as land. Vinegar as air. Watch it. See how it starts out. Timid, first. Invisible, extant only by way of the bright yellow orb at its center. Drop! In the water, a ghostly, whirling specter as it […]

  • July 14, 2017

    When Words Fail: Red Fruit Galettes

    If words fail you: close your mouth. Open your ears, your eyes always. Let your hands do the talking. Your hands will tell you if you are hurt, if they cannot do the work. Your hands will tell you if you are soft, full of love, caressing butter into flour. Your hands will cry for […]

  • July 4, 2017

    Roasted Potato Salad with Lentils & Asparagus

    Happy 4th, everyone! I hope you are all barbecuing meat, grilling corn and drinking lots of beachside rosè. If you are, please have me in mind. I just started my new job as a pastry cook in Brooklyn (!!!) and our opening date is July 10th, so I’ve pretty much been working nonstop. No vacation […]

  • June 29, 2017

    Labneh Mousse and Olive Oil Tart with Cardamom Figs

    Hi, everyone! Here’s a recipe I wrote up for The Nosher, an awesome, Jewish/Israeli food mashup site I occasionally write for. You can get the full recipe there! For me, summer desserts have to fit a few criteria. First off: they better be worth turning on the oven for. Second: if you don’t need to […]

  • June 26, 2017

    Triple Berry Crumble Muffins

    Have we talked about stress before? What about the pressure to be perfect, about feelings of inadequacy? All important things to discuss. Let’s. I’ve always been a bit of a perfectionist. When I start a project, I like to be on top of it from A-Z. If I have a vision, I like it to […]

  • June 20, 2017

    Small Batch Blackberry Jam

    blackberries, sweetbitter prickly on the tongue and they taste a bit like wine. i roll my sleeves. hair gets pinned back. i wash, tumbledry some burst in my fingers. this is fine; they’re destined for jam. with a bit of lemon some sugar rogue splatters, inky purples. bubbling, spitting, hissing jam begins to gather on […]

  • June 12, 2017

    Boozy Cherry Apricot Pop Tarts

    It’s a busy Friday and my mom and I are in the kitchen, preparing for Shabbos. Various pots are bubbling on different stoves, both ovens are full. The countertops are packed with ingredients- half a lemon, herbs strewn everywhere, carrot peels making a mountain. It’s hot, although the windows are open, and I am ready […]

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