Tag: baking

• 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,…

  Chaya

  August 11, 2017

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  august, baking, butter, dessert, flour, food photography, gooseberries, peaches, pie, recipes, seasonal, sugar, summer, white peaches, writing

• Vanilla Bean Cheesecake Tart with Roasted Rhubarb

  Let’s make cheesecake! In tart form! I’m a big fan of tarts because they look super elegant and are simple to make. I specifically love a cheesecake in tart form. The towering height of a classic cheesecake (such as this one) is too rich for some people, and a tart scales it down, yielding a…

  Chaya

  May 28, 2017

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  baking, butter, cheesecake, dairy, may, photography, rhubarb, shavuot, spring, sugar, tart, vanilla bean, writing

• Whole Wheat Rhubarb Pie Bars

  It’s that time of year again. Trees, newly clothed in pink blossoms, shed their skeletal selves. Grass emerges, sparkling new and green, from beneath relentless streams of rain. Rhubarb finds its way into my kitchen and has me spellbound with its pearly, pink power. I want to make a pie, a purely rhubarb pie, but…

  Chaya

  May 5, 2017

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  baking, bars, butter, crumble, photography, pie, rhubarb, seasonal, spring, sugar, writing

• Brown Butter Date Blondies

  Hi, everyone. How are you all? I can’t believe the last time I posted here was months ago. It was last year! I apologize. I thought I’d have much more time and opportunity to blog here in Israel, but sadly, I have next to none. Oh, well. I come bearing luxury blondies! Apology accepted? Winter…

  Chaya

  January 30, 2017

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  baking, blondies, browned butter, chocolate chip, dairy, dates, eggs, food, pecans, photography, recipes, seasonal, walnuts, winter, writing

• Whole Wheat Sandwich Loaf

  Ever since I started making sourdough bread, I’ve been giving other breads some serious side eye. Nothing is comparable to the taste and texture of sourdough and using instant yeast in place of a natural leavener seems like a major cop out to me. Why go the easy route when a slightly more involved one…

  Chaya

  May 2, 2016

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• Six Impossible Things

  The past couple of weeks have been crazy busy. It seemed like every day there was something new to check off my list and each week I had more and more things to get done. However, now that Chanukah is over I feel like things are finally starting to calm down. I have a trip…

  Chaya

  December 18, 2015

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• Maple Plum Upside Down Cake

  A few days ago, I spotted a box of plums for $5 at the grocery store. They were dusty, bruised and a little unripe. I took them home. Once home, I put them on the counter. I thought, well, here it is. Proof that you have trouble letting go. Because really, plums are a thing of the…

  Chaya

  October 8, 2015

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  autumn, baking, blog, butter, cake, dairy, delicious, fall, food, october, photography, plums, recipes, seasonal, summer, writing

• Blackberry Buttermilk Rye Scones

  Scone dough is messy. It sticks to sun-warmed countertops and leaves buttery streaks in the bowl. It dusts me with a layer of flour and threatens to leak fruit as I work it. But scone dough is also restorative. It demands that you to knead it together. It requires that you worry about things like…

  Chaya

  August 25, 2015

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  august, baking, blackberries, breakfast, brunch, buttermilk, food, photography, recipes, rye, scones, seasonal

• Spiced Stone Fruit Crumble Bars

  I don’t want to think about it being late August, or August at all. I don’t want to think about summer ending and taking with it its bounty of everything good. I don’t want to think about the ice cream maker that will sit collecting dust for a year, or about the peaches I won’t…

  Chaya

  August 21, 2015

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  apricots, august, baking, bars, butter, crumble, delicious, dessert, food, peaches, photography, plums, recipes, seasonal, stone fruit, sugar, summer

• Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins

  My mom’s very favorite treat is a blueberry muffin.  A big, bakery-style one, with a crispy top and filled with sweet blueberries. The problem is, bakery muffins never measure up to what they could be. At their ideal, they’d be moist, sweet, and exploding with blueberries. In reality, they are usually stale from a long…

  Chaya

  May 10, 2015

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  baking, blueberries, blueberry muffins, breakfast, brunch, delicious, dessert, food, may, mom, mother’s day, photography, recipes, spring, sweet