Tag: butter

• 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

• 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…

  Chaya

  July 28, 2017

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  almond meal, apricots, biscuits, butter, cornmeal, cream, dairy, dessert, flour, july, photography, ricotta, seasonal, shortcakes, thyme, vanilla bean, writing

• 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…

  Chaya

  July 14, 2017

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  butter, fruit, galettes, pastry, photography, raspberries, red, rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, writing

• 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…

  Chaya

  June 12, 2017

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  apricots, butter, cherries, delicious, dough, food, lemon, pie, pop tarts, recipes, seasonal, sugar, whiskey, writing

• Black Fruit Galettes

  I want to start this post by thanking you all so much for your wonderful responses to the video! I’ll admit I was a teeny tiny bit apprehensive when it went up, unsure if people would like it, but thankfully my apprehensions were unfounded. I am so so happy it was well received! For everyone who asked…

  Chaya

  June 4, 2017

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  blackberries, blueberries, butter, dough, figs, galettes, june, photography, pie, recipes, seasonal, summer, 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

• Giant Concord Grape Hand Pie

  Shana Tova from Israel! I am here for the year, studying and touring and eating lots of good food. I won’t be posting very often, but I’ll pop in once in a while to share a recipe or two and a couple of pictures and updates from this beautiful country. While I love lots of…

  Chaya

  October 5, 2016

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  autumn, butter, concord grapes, fall, food, pastry, photography, pie, recipes, seasonal, september, writing

• Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler

  Did I tell you guys I started working in a restaurant? I touched on it very briefly in this post, and it’s just for July, which is almost over(!), but I feel like sharing a bit more about it and finally have a little time and head space to elaborate some more. I’m the new…

  Chaya

  July 20, 2016

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  american, butter, buttermilk, cobbler, delicious, dessert, food, july, peach, photography, recipe, rhubarb, seasonal, southern, strawberry, summer, writing

• Strawberry Spelt Shortcakes

  Who doesn’t love a good shortcake? Whenever I make them, they’re adored by everyone, and gone in a flash. Thankfully, they couldn’t be simpler to make: the biscuits come together with a quick pat of butter and a pour of cream and the seasonal fruit is showcased simply, gussied up with only a bit of…

  Chaya

  July 4, 2016

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  biscuits, butter, cream, dairy, dessert, flour, food, june, photography, recipes, seasonal, shortcakes, spelt, strawberries, sugar, summer, vanilla, writing